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The Light That Saves Lives
LightSaver L-100 emergency exit door identifier can be easily installed around any door (or window) in any residential or commercial setting. There are some situations where a window may actually be the safest way out of your home in the event of smoke or fire. Our LightSaver emergency lighting system can be installed just as easily around windows as it can a doorway and it can help save a life just as easily in a commercial setting as it can someone’s home.
A New Type of “Visual” Alarm
Unlike other alarm systems in your home, the LightSaver L-100 emergency doorway identifier lighting system has the unique ability to light up the outside edges of exit doors and floor areas near those doors. Now you can see exactly where to go in the event of an emergency that alarms your smoke detectors. The bright, aqua-blue emergency pulse of the LightSaver Home emergency lighting system visibly tells you where the door is guiding you safely to the exit.
When seconds count, this device is designed to give you the information that you may need to get out quickly!
LightSaver is "The Light That Saves Lives."
Invisible Until You Need It
Unless activated, the LightSaver L-100 is virtually undetectable and won’t detract from the aesthetics or interior design of a room or corridor. The last thing you want is a bulky, obtrusive devise around your doorways. That's why we have designed our devices to be as sleek and inconspicuous as possible. To blend in with your room’s existing motif.
It's there continuously monitoring the airwaves for emergency alarms broadcasted by smoke detectors and:
You don't even know its there; until you really need it.
Ready Out of the Box
The L-100 comes ready to work right out of the box. It can be installed in just a few minutes; Do-It-Yourselfers can do this in 10 to 15 minutes; start to finish... without tools! LightSaver L-100 emergency doorway identifier is designed to be automatically integrated (audibly) with your existing fire and smoke alarms.
Available in Commercial/Low-Voltage Configuration Also
Commercial ordered LightSavers can be configured to a variety of specific audible alarm tones and signal patterns and the standard L-100 is designed to work with just about any alarm system in a building or home. LightSaver L-100's can also be ordered to come ready to connect with any low-voltage system. Please call us if you have an intitutional or commercial setting requiring low-voltage hard-wiring capabilities; we can help.
Easily Integrates for Additional Safety
The LightSaver L-100 emergency lighting system is activated by your existing smoke detectors (or ones that you install to marry with the device). Most homes already have strategically-placed smoke alarms throughout the house. When smoke alarms "go off", LightSaver picks up the tones (or frequencies & patterns) and quickly activates to provide a bright piercing aqua-blue pulsing illumination around the periphery of the door and floor area of designated, safe exit doors (or windows).
"When nearby smoke detectors are alarmed, LightSaver goes to work."
"When you see it in action, there’s no mistaking its purpose."
It's very simple, ablaze and pitch black with thick smoke, people can become disoriented even in their own home. Children and the elderly are even more susceptible in stressful situations! Firefighters, too. Many have reported becoming disoriented within 10 feet from a point of entry a burning structure. These are professionals trained specifically to deal with this type of situation. Even they aren’t excluded from falling victim to fire’s punches. In fact, according to a study by the US Fire Administration, disorientation is one of the leading causes of death for firefighters. If it could happen to them, what do you think could happen to you? Or your children, grandma, or your employees?
Why have L-100s in your home?
Fires occur in homes more often than you might think. On average, United States Fire departments respond to OVER 400,000 home fires, which claim the lives of about 3,000 and injure another nearly 14,000 people every year.
In fact, Fire kills more Americans than all natural disasters combined.
In 2008 alone, there was:
- One home structure fire reported every 82 seconds
- One civilian fire injury reported every 31 minutes
- One civilian fire death every 158 minutes
In a fire, YOU ONLY HAVE SECONDS TO GET OUT!
- A fire can double in size every 30 seconds causing everything in a room to burn in as little as three minutes.
- In just two minutes, a fire can become life threatening.
- In five minutes, a residence can be engulfed in flames,
- Thick smoke can fill an entire house in just seconds,
- Often, smoke incapacitates so quickly that people are overcome and can’t make it to an otherwise accessible exit.
In an instant, fire can present you and your family with the unexpected challenge of a lifetime. There is no time to waste when fire strikes. In those moments, LightSaver Can Help.
According to the NFPA, “Home is the place where you feel safest. But your home is also where you are most likely to die in a fire.” Don’t be fooled, it CAN happen to you. It happened to us and that’s why we developed this product.
Fire is Fast, Dark and Deadly
A majority of fatal home fires occur between the hours of 11:00 pm and 7:00 am. It’s even darker and more confusing when the smoke starts pouring in. As a fire grows, it consumes the available oxygen in a structure very quickly. It can disorient in seconds. The most at risk are the ones that need a hand in such a crisis – the young and the elderly.
Think About It
“Four out of five fire-related deaths among civilians occur in the home." We believe LightSaver emergency lighting system can change this statistic. If it were installed in every home and building, who’s to say how many could escape injury, lessen their injuries, or even cheat death because they were able to quickly locate a safe exit. We hope to find out. Our mission is simple – “To Save Lives.”
Designed From Experience
The founders of LightSaver Technologies, Inc. have experienced the terror of waking up in the middle of the night to a house on fire. A harrowing experience one will never forget. If we save one life with this device, we will have been successful. Despite the years of work, tremendous risk and phenomenal expense of bringing such a product to market, it is all worth it if one injury or death is avoided as a result of our efforts.
It Can Happen To You
According to the NFPA, your household can expect 5 home fires in an average lifetime. Most of these will be unreported, small fires resulting in little to no damage. But even a trivial fire causes at least some temporary anxiety. What LightSaver Home is designed for is the “serious fire.” The fire that smolders for hours before you recognize; one that rips and rages through your home; and one that can injure you or your family – even kill. The NFPA cites, “Your household has a one in four chance of having a home fire large enough to be reported to a fire department during an average lifetime.” That is why we developed the emergency lighting system that we call the LightSaver.
Disorientation During A Fire Is Real
People commonly become disoriented, even in their own home, when it is ablaze and pitch black with thick smoke. Whether it's from zero visibility or stress, it happens, especially to children and the elderly! Many firefighters report becoming disoriented within 10 feet from a point of entry when charging the fire. According to a study by the US Fire Administration, disorientation is one of the leading causes of death for firefighters. It is our hope that LightSaver will not only help you get out, but that it might also help those that enter a burning building to find their way back out, too.
When fire strikes, you only have minutes, if not seconds to make certain that you and your loved ones have evacuated to safety. LightSaver is designed to provide the much-needed light around the periphery of the exit door and along the floor areas on both sides of your doorway; exactly where it needs to be provided. When you see this emergency lighting system in operation, there is no question what it is for and no mistaking where one should go to get out.
Why not have emergency exit lighting in homes too?
Emergency Exit Lighting is "REQUIRED" in commercial settings and places of public convention. Why isn't it required in non-commercial, residential settings as well? According to the National Fire Protection Association, roughly 84 percent of civilian fire deaths occur in homes. So, why don't we have emergency exit lighting requirements for the home? We think that it primarily stems from the fact that emergency exit lighting has been obtrusive to the décor and aesthetics of a home. It can also be expensive and hard to install. Let's face it, who wants big exit lights over doors and windows in their home? Not many. The L-100 emergency exit lighting system is INCONSPICUOUS. As we say, "you don't even know our emergency exit lighting system is there, UNTIL YOU NEED IT!"
As you have probably seen, in commercial settings, emergency exit lighting is typically situated “above the door,” where smoke first accumulates near the ceiling of the structure. Ironically, traditional exit signs are located in the very first place to disappear from site as smoke fills its given space. Our emergency exit lighting system envelopes the entirety of the exitway (the whole of the exit porthole) and some of the adjacent floor areas near that exitway. When the LightSaver is activated, its emergency pulse and light is designed to clearly define the exitway; “all the way around” the door (or window), not just above it. The LightSaver provides this additional evacuation information to those that need it, “where they need it,” all the way around the door and along the floor. The L-100 may be your answer to enhancing your existing emergency exit lighting systems for the safety of your family, loved ones, tenants or occupants of a building that you own or occupy. It works as well in commercial settings as it does in the home.
Just think about it for a Moment
Take just a moment and imagine yourself asleep in your home. Unbeknownst to you, the smoke has been building and is filling your home very quickly. A fire can double in size every 30 seconds; but how long have you been asleep? As you wake to the smoke alarm, the smoke is debilitating and, like water rushing into a quickly sinking ship, filling rooms and obscuring your escape paths. In these critical moments, you are totally dependent on information. Some you remember. Some you may not. The smoke affects you. Even though assisted by an adrenaline rush, your stamina to compete with the smoke and fire can be shortened very quickly by inhaling the smoke. In just seconds, you can be disoriented and forced to rely on your familiarity of the building. You are forced to quickly recognize where you are and decide where you need to go and you search for information to make these decisions.
As the thickening smoke billows toward the ceilings, fills rooms and pours into your hallways, the LightSaver L-100 bright flashing pulse wraps the entire outer edges of safe exit doorways and also runs floor level providing you with the information and light that you need to see a way out. Remember, our light information is around the door AND down low to the floor; one of the last places one can see as smoke fills a room or hallway from the ceiling down. When you only have seconds to get out, the LightSaver can make a difference by showing you the exit!
Now imagine that you are a child or perhaps elderly.
One might think that it is easy to negotiate the walls and doorways of rooms, furniture, aisle ways and corridors and other exit path impediments when trying to reach a safe exit, but in actuality, it is not. Disorientation, even when you find yourself in very familiar places, can set in remarkably fast. The panic stricken evacuee can lose his or her faculties in a matter of seconds in a fire. Regrettably, the 3,000 to 4,000 souls that died LAST YEAR, and every year, in fires may have made this incorrect assumption. As a matter of fact, studies show that even trained firefighters often succumb to disorientation in these circumstances "regularly" and they have a tank of compressed air, protective gear a helmet, and masks on. These guys are "professionals!" They are trained to understand and deal with such surroundings. Regardless of training and experience, fire can impair your judgment in a second and that’s where we come in. In those moments of panic, what if the doorway glowed with information? The LightSaver delivers this information in the form of light that clearly indicates where you should go to get out.
Don't take chances with getting out or with getting your loved ones out of your home when fire strikes and you only have seconds or moments to clear out of harms way.
Investigate what the LightSaver emergency exit lighting system can do in your home.
Single Family Residence Facts:
New Construction: As of March 2009, the Single Family Home Building Industry was considered to be a $210 billion industry; this is just "new homes" being built; 74% of which were built "speculatively" by developers. The market has fallen off considerably since this statistic was released, but residential developers are even more pressed to differentiate their product from their competitors. LightSaver Home provides one way to do this. The all-in average cost per square foot of a home today in America is $124.40/sq.ft. Given the relative inexpensiveness of the L-100 emergency exit lighting system, we believe that any major residential developer could include our devices in the specifications for the development of any new home; as the cost is negligible when compared to the total development cost of a home or subdivision of homes. When developing your next subdivision or spec home, consider the benefit that such an inexpensive device can add to provide your Buyer’s with a new feature and to distinguish yourself apart from your competitors by including the LightSaver™ in your developed homes.
Existing Homes: There were 119,117,000 housing units in the United States in 2001. Approximately 106,261,000 (including Single Family Residences and Condos) were occupied as regular residences and 12,855,000 were vacant or seasonal. Approximately 4,913,000 existing single family homes traded hands in 2008. Every time a house trades hands, it is an opportunity for a LightSaver™ emergency exit lighting upgrade and installation. We welcome Realtors®, brokers, agents, property managers and asset managers to consider the L-100. We discount for larger orders (bulk sales) and your on-site staff can easily install these throughout a project in very little time.
Mobile Homes/Manufactured Homes: A surprising static that presents itself to one when analyzing where people live is that approximately 7.6% of the US housing stock falls into the "mobile home" category. Given the size and scope of this category, we believe that LightSaver Home's emergency exit lighting systems need to be manufactured directly into this type of residential product on the manufacturing floor of their respective plants. Manufactured homes have in excess of 17,000 fires every year and “the fatality rate is considerably higher per fire event than we see in other types of structures.” In 2002, for example, there were 17,200 mobile home fires, 210 civilian deaths and 510 civilian injuries. If you can believe it, the death rates were even higher prior to the Federal Department of Housing and Urban Development's establishment of standards that are intended to slow or limit the spread of fire through one of these residences when they took over jurisdiction of the industry in 1976. LightSaver's emergency lighting systems could easily be manufactured directly into these manufactured homes as a part of the manufacturing process. We are currently seeking manufactured home builders to spec the L-100 for a line of their production and our engineers can work directly with your team to develop the manufacturing process to include the L-100 in your products as they roll out.
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