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Model L-100 Single Station LinearStrobe™ are a UL 217 conforming accessory to Single and Multiple Station Smoke Alarms, the “Single-Station LinearStrobe™ is designed to “visually” alert individuals to the existence of a fire emergency and “visually” assist them in recognizing that alarmed audible smoke detector alarms in the space have been activated and broadcasting their emergency signals. When installed around an exit doorway, the single-station LinearStrobe also demarks the exit location and immediately adjacent flanking is useful in directing occupants to that exit. While just as useful for any sighted or partially sighted occupant of a house or building when fire and smoke strike, the S-LinearStrobe™ has a powerfully distinctive and critical utility to those whom cannot hear commonplace smoke detector’s alarms whose ordinarily aurally broadcasted alarm sounds are present but completely ineffective for the deaf and hard of hearing person in the most critical moments early in a fire. This affordable and easy-to-install technology can be particularly useful to the hearing impaired in private residential settings where visible notification appliances are virtually non-existent in the United States and are not required by codes and ordinances.

These devices are self-contained, sound-activated, 9VDC battery-powered and are activated when nearby single-station smoke alarms (and often, other audible fire alarms) are activated. The device is also designed to be triggered/activated by many firefighter’s P.A.S.S. devices which may be operating within the listening radius of the S-LinearStrobe™. The S-LinearStrobe™’s are not interconnected with other notification appliances and do not synchronize their light emissions with other visual notification appliances in a space or a building; like their IntegratedLinearStrobe™ cousins which are designed for public accommodation, commercial and other ADA controlled settings.

Generally, this version of theLinearStrobe™ technology’s onboard microprocessor samples the ambient background audio in its space approximately every 2 seconds; “listening” for the tonal patterns and frequency values of the audible signal generated by code compliant smoke alarms. When these patterns and frequencies are identified, the S-LinearStrobe™ device’s two standard-length 12′ long linear luminaries are automatically triggered to flash in a 2Hz flash pattern; highlighting the universally recognized shape of the doorway, an emergency egress window or alternative pre-planned path of egress where installed.

Nearly 20 next generations of the S-LinearStrobe™e are already in development design stages and/or are proto-typed and in testing today. There is an entire line of products underway to change the way we alert, demark and direct evacuating occupants out of a structure when fire or other emergencies strike.