Products In Development

LightSaver L-1000 Commercial Exit Emergency Lighting System Directional Light that Leads the Way to Safety.

The company is currently heavily involved in developing and perfecting the patent-pending LightSaver L-1000 Directional Corridor & Exit Emergency Lighting System for commercial settings. The LightSaver L-1000 differs from the LightSaver L-100 in that it provides bright floor-level illumination, which also directs occupants of a building toward the nearest exit with a moving light.

It is important to note that the L-1000 is designed to easily integrate with the LightSaver L-100 as well as be easily other fire, security and safety systems. It can also stand alone. In the event of a fire or other emergency that triggers a system alarm, the L-1000 not only provides directional light for evacuees, but also assists emergency personnel by providing light at or near the floor areas of corridors leading to exits.

Unlike other exit emergency lighting and alarm systems, the LightSaver L-1000 exit emergency lighting system has the unique ability to light up the exit route at floor-level while simultaneously directing evacuees to the closest exit with its directional pulse. They simply "follow the light to safety." Like the LightSaver L-100, the LightSaver L-1000 System is virtually invisible and won’t detract from the aesthetics or the interior design of a room, corridor or interior space.

In Development

The LightSaver Companies are involved in much more than just LightSaver L-100 and our LightSaver L-1000 Commercial Systems. We are engaged in incubating several future generations of our patent protected products, new concepts, ideas and product development both inside and outside of the emergency illumination industry. We are currently deeply involved in incubating and developing several new technologies and products and, as these products are refined, tested and ready to roll-out, the company will announce them and bring them to market.

Partnering or JV Opportunities:

If you have a well thought out idea, but don’t know how to develop it or may not have the in-place network of go-to associates or strategic partners who can provide the product design, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, purchasing, manufacturing, packaging or marketing, operation or finance expertise, LightSaver Technologies, Inc. may be a good JV/Partner to launch your product or idea with. While we are not focused in the business of partnering with others, we are privately owned, we learned these processes through actually doing it with our own skin on the line and we occasionally consider JV/Partnering opportunities to work collaboratively with others who might benefit from our experiences and vice-versa. If you would like to explore this avenue with us, please drop us a line at [email protected] and we would be happy to discuss the possibilities with you.

NDA’s OK:

Given our deep understanding of and reliance on confidentiality as we continually develop our products and ideas, we consider confidentiality a must when operating with others. We know how hard it is to protect a great idea until it is launched, and have experience with others whom may not consider it as important. To say the least, it can be frustrating when trusted vendors or associates blatantly turn a blind eye toward a commitment of same; not to mention expensive. We consider your trust tremendously important. That being said, we are very familiar the "NDA" exercise and welcome entering into Confidentiality and Non-Disclosure Agreements to memorialize our arrangement prior to sharing proprietary information.

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More on LightSaver's Comercial Directional System:

The applications for LightSaver L-1000 are limitless in commercial, industrial and nautical arenas. Our systems can be integrated with existing fire protection systems, noxious fume detection systems, and high-pressure alert systems in just about any industrial setting. Many manufacturing companies are very keen on fire protection safety and OSHA requirements as a result of their type(s) of manufacturing and fabrication processes and the inherent risks of the same.

Where the aesthetics of a security system, fire protection system or other protection related systems is less of a consideration, the LightSaver L-1000 can utilize commercial-grade LightSaver Light-Strand rather than the smaller residential strands. They can be affixed to exit paths and portals to enhance existing systems with exceedingly bright, directional lighting.

The LightSaver L-1000 lighting system lends itself easily to installation or retrofit of the aforementioned buildings, facilities or structures.

Unless activated, the LightSaver L-1000 (Series-A) exit emergency lighting system is inconspicuous and does not detract from the planned aesthetics or interior design of a room, corridor or general interior space. It's LightSaver Light-Strand is not much larger than the L-100 series strand and can easily be run in our patented cove base/baseboard snap-track groove that runs just a few inches above the floor away from vacuums, mops, dolly/handcarts, maid-carts and rolling luggage.

We continue development of this system on a daily basis and estimate its official launch to market sometime in 2013. Please check our press page for announcements about the L-1000.

The L-1000 is being designed to provide its "directional" corridor emergency exit lighting capabilities to:

Hotels/Motels/Resorts: In 2007, there were approximately 48,000 domestic hotelier establishments with 4,476,191 guestrooms that provided overnight accommodations to Americans in every nook and cranny of the country. According to the NFPA, U. S. fire departments responded to an estimated average of 3,970 structure fires in hotels and motels in 2003-2007. The largest share of casualties occurred in fires that started in bedrooms. Exit emergency lighting is essential in these facilities.
Casinos: In 2007, 941 casinos were in operation in the U.S. The huge profitability of these enterprises, their scope in terms of size and the shear numbers of guests that they serve, the tremendous amounts of capital that they spend on their facilities and their inherent desire to one-up each other at their facilities. We project that our exit emergency lighting systems will become a standard in these facilities where so many stay so.
Federal Government Buildings: [State and Local Government buildings vary (by millions of square feet) state-to-state and community-to-community]. As of October 2008, the entity that manages and otherwise oversees all of the federally occupied building space in the U.S. (the "GSA" or Government Services Administration) has a portfolio of 8,603 buildings comprising a total occupancy of 353,900,000 square feet of total space. 176,452,885 square feet in 1,523 of these buildings are actually owned by the US Government. The other 7,080 locations (177,493,644 square feet) are leased from others and, combined, are collectively valued at $74,500,000,000 as a portfolio.

Historic Buildings: It is important to note for LightSaver L-1000 that 480 of these government assets are considered "historic" buildings; making them irreplaceable. Many of these buildings can be easily retrofitted with our emergency exit lighting product as an alternative to installations of actual sprinkler systems, which can be difficult (and expensive) at best to install/retrofit in old historic facilities. For every historic government building, there are hundreds of privately owned and operated historic properties. Many of these irreplaceable community assets are heavily dependent on antiquated fire and safety systems purely due to the difficulty in retrofitting new systems into the buildings. LightSaver L-1000 is ideal for this scenario as is the LightSaver Home.

Hospitals: As of the end of 2007, there were approximately 7,570 hospitals operating in the US that were operating over 945,000-staffed beds. This industry treated 121 million in their emergency departments, 603 million outpatients, performed 27 million surgeries and delivered over 4 million babies. Using the industry rule of thumb of +/- 2,000 square feet of total hospital for every bed, we can deduce that there are approximately 1,890,000,000 total square feet of Hospitals sprinkled throughout the US and it is inconceivable how many lineal feet of hallway and exit corridor that there are that needs our exit emergency lighting product. During 2003-2006, municipal fire departments responded to an estimated 3,750 structure fires in medical, mental health, and substance abuse facilities, annually.

Because of the irregular frequency of visitation to your local hospital, the general unfamiliarity that one has with its physical layout, the related high probability one would have to get lost in such a facility and the fact that there were 110,200,000 visits to hospitals [2007] annually; we believe that Hospitals are a very likely candidates for an exit emergency lighting system such as LightSaver Commercial.

Assisted Living & Nursing Home Centers: As of 2007, there were approximately 39,000 Assisted Living facilities and 16,145 nursing facilities operating in the U.S. These care centers house approximately 975,000 and 1,700,000 residents, respectively. Although the size varies greatly from facility to facility, the average facility contained 58 units (separate demised occupant quarters) and the average occupancy of these facilities was 85%; indicating that every one of these +/-55,000 facilities desperately needs a LightSaver System to provide exit emergency lighting. This property type averages 2810 fires annually.

It is noteworthy that across all US states, nearly 45% of all Nursing facility residents suffer from some source of dementia and resultingly are easily confused and disoriented, especially in a high stress or when a "crisis situation" presents itself in the facility. We believe that the "directional" aspect of the LightSaver L-1000exit emergency lighting system can greatly enhance the facilities’ operator’s ability to evacuate these elderly residents in the event of fire and smoke events.

Universities & Dormitories: There are currently 4,084 Universities and Colleges operating in the US today providing higher education to approximately 20 million students. Of these, 2,197 currently provide student-housing facilities for their respective student populations. There are typically +/- 3,300 fires every year in University and University Housing settings, which make exit emergency lighting a large concern for the operators of these facilities.

Elementary, Middle and High Schools (Public, Private and Parochial): We entrust the elementary, middle and high school systems of the U.S. with 58.7 million of our children each day, of which, 24.7 million are very young (Nursery, Kindergarten and Elementary Grades 1-4). These younger students, by definition, need all the help that they can get when caught in a building in crisis such as a fire or heavy smoke event. Between 2003 and 2005, 14,700 fires occurred in non-adult educational facilities. The running annual average for these types of fires exceeds 5,500. We believe that LightSaver’s directional exit emergency lighting pulse can assist all children caught in a school fire; with or without the aforementioned "watchful eye" of their instructors and staff.

High-Rise/Skyscrapers: A "high-rise building" is technically considered to be any building that exceeds 75’ in vertical height (typically about 7 stories) from the lowest point that a fire truck pumping water would be situated to attack a fire in such building. Although there is no technical definition for "skyscraper", it is generally considered any continually habitable building exceeding 262’ in height. Fire hazards and life safety issues are of enormous concern in tall buildings. A fire in a tall building typically presents danger to a large number of people all at one time and the height of the buildings when coupled with the dysfunction of elevators cause occupants to panic and feel insecure about their flight to safety. Statistics indicate that each year an estimated 15,500 high-rise structure fires occur. Many large cities decline participation in "NFIRS" (the National Fire Incident Reporting System) and many are of the opinion that many high-rise structure fires are not reported and that the death, damage and injury figures could be substantially higher. The LightSaver L-1000 System can provide directionality and exit emergency lighting and is designed with high-rise structures, particularly, in mind. Show us a high-rise building and we can show you a viable candidate for one of our systems.

Commercial Buildings in General: The Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey (CBECS) estimates that there were nearly 4.9 million "commercial" (i.e., non-residential) buildings and more than 71.6 billion square feet of commercial floor space in the U. S. in 2003. The commercial buildings sector is dominated by four building activities—education, mercantile, office, and warehouse and storage. Together they comprise 60 percent of total commercial floors pace and 51 percent of buildings.

Residential Public Housing: Currently there are approximately 7.1 million residents in federal housing across America. We see these facilities as a "no-brainer" for our exit emergency lighting systems; both the LightSaver L-1000AND the LightSaver Home devices. The public’s investment in these facilities and our obligations to the tenants that reside there should require that public residential facilities adopt such a relatively inexpensive potentially life-saving technology.

Office Buildings: The most conservative estimate comes from preliminary data of the 2003 Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey, which gives 824,000 as the number of buildings in the United States whose "principal building activity" is categorized as "office". In 2000-2004, U.S. fire departments responded to an estimated average of 3,810 structure fires in these properties. Because of the shear number of personnel typically housed in larger buildings on a daily basis and the landlord’s responsibility (and liability) to protect their tenant’s lives and interests in the event of a fire or major smoke event, the LightSaver L-1000exit emergency lighting component is an important consideration to make.

Malls and Retail/Shopping Facilities: While according to CBECS, above, there are 657,000 mercantile buildings in the US as of 2003, there are actually approximately 47,000 actual "shopping centers" in the United States. About 1,100 of these centers are categorized as enclosed malls. These multi-storied massive structures and their large newer cousins, the Lifestyle Centers, are where our primary interests lie for LightSaver exit emergency systems given the large number of people (would-be evacuees) that might be present at any one point in time when an evacuation crisis presents itself.

Industrial/Manufacturing/Distribution Facilities: Between 2000 and 2004 firefighters responded to an average of 12,000 "industrial and manufacturing property" fires. NFPA estimates that U.S. fire departments responded to an average of 1,350 reported structure fires per year in warehouse properties during the four-year-period of 2003-2006. The NFPA estimates that U.S. fire departments responded to an average of 1,350 reported structure fires per year in "warehouse properties" during the four-year-period of 2003-2006.

Multi-Family Structures (Apartments): Since 2000, firefighters responded to an average of 91,312 structure fires in Apartments nationally. In 2007, 284,000 new multi-family units were built throughout the US. In 2006, there were 325,000 units built. This segment of the industry historically varies typically between 250 and 350,000 units per year in new construction. 30% of the reported home structure fires and 16% of the fatal home fire injuries occurred in apartments or similar properties.

LightSaver Technologies, Inc. believes that every "newly constructed" apartment facility is a viable opportunity to install a this new commercial exit emergency lighting system in addition to our LightSaver Home product and many of the high-rise apartment structures already on the ground and operating today can easily be retrofitted with the LightSaver L-100 AND LightSaver L-1000 technology.

Marine Vessels: After reading the above statistics about High-Rise Structures and recognizing the challenges that an evacuee might have in escaping such a structure in the event of a fire or heavy smoke event, now imagine that same structure laid on its side and bouncing around in the ocean with high fuel load levels (petroleum, diesel, gasoline, etc) onboard. In essence, a cruise liner is a resort laid on its side, which floats. In its core, there are hallways, nooks, crannies and many pathways and lots of places where passengers might become trapped in a raging fire. In fact, the 12th and 14th deadliest large-loss fires in history occurred on ships taking a total of 1,654 and 1,547 deaths, respectively. Fire, flooding and collision are the 3 highest threats to mariner survivability. Many of these large vessels have 4,000 to 5,000 (or even more) passengers aboard at any one point in time with another 1,000 to 1,500 crew to serve them. Most commercial ships, aircraft carriers, frigates and other large marine vessels have large staffs that operate the vessel. All are subject to serious peril in the event of a fire while sailing.

In many other circumstances, the ship’s fire just burns every flammable item onboard including its passengers. 20.7% of all tonnage lost in 2005 was the direct result of a reported fire or explosion.

Cruise Liners/Commercial Ships: Since 2000, major cruise lines have introduced 81 new cruise ships and 14 new cruise ships are scheduled to launch in 2009. Going forward it is predicted that five to ten new luxury liners will be built every year. More than 230 ships now sail the Atlantic and Pacific oceans and they carry a very security conscious +/-16 million passengers a year. Without a doubt, every existing and every new ship (as it is constructed) can benefit from a LightSaver L-1000exit emergency lighting system.

Armed Services Carriers, Ships, Submarines and Personnel Carriers: As of December 2008, the United States Navy (USN) had about 331,682 personnel on active duty and 124,000 in the Navy Reserve. It operates 283 ships in active service and more than 3,700 aircraft. The U.S. Navy is the largest in the world; its battle fleet tonnage is greater than that of the next 13 largest combined. The U.S. Navy also has the world's largest carrier fleet, with 11 in service and one under construction. US military ships obviously have the propensity to be placed in fire prone situations given that they deliberately sail straight into them given their activities when engaged in battle. Military ships are many times more likely to experience an onboard fire as a result, not to mention that they are customarily carrying very large quantities of ordnance, munitions and other highly explosive materials and fuels.

Private Ship Operators: As of 2008, there are about 55,000 (give or take 1-2 thousand) Merchant ships in service around the world. This figure includes bulk carriers, dry cargo vessels, multi-purpose box tweendecker ships (MPP's) which carry dry goods and just about anything that one can ship, container vessels, tankers, liquefied petroleum ships (LPG's), liquefied natural gas tankers (LNG's), and most cruise ships. Each of these large vessels regularly have relatively large crews, living quarters and large (square footage-wise) permanent operations areas that could easily benefit from a LightSaver emergency exit lighting system.

Places of Public Assembly/Churches: Public Assembly: Although fatal fires in public assembly properties are relatively rare, the potential life safety hazard is high. In 2000-2004, U.S. fire departments responded to an estimated annual average of 4,910 reported fires in public assembly properties, excluding eating and drinking establishments and religious and funeral properties.

Eating & Drinking Establishments: According to the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) report U.S. Structure Fires in Eating and Drinking Establishments (PDF, 164 KB), which does not include statistics from The Station nightclub fire, U.S. fire departments responded to an average of 8,520 structure fires in these properties from 2000-2004.

Religious and Funeral Properties: This category includes churches, temples, mosques, religious education facilities, funeral parlors and related properties. During 2000-2004, an estimated average of 1,810 structure fires were reported in these properties.