EXPLORE THE SCIENCE BEHIND
SAL SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY
Putting Efficiency, Safety & Sustainability Into Perspective
By applying the ALS concept in every design that we create, we make sure that risk is minimal, efficiency is higher, no human labor is involved, and energy is only used when absolutely necessary in order to sanitize surface areas with the highest frequency of contact.
KEY PILLARS OF THE
ALS METHODOLOGY
Using energy-hungry UV devices to sterilize an entire room would be absolutely inefficient given the variability in room design resulting in many hidden surface areas and elevated energy consumption leading to low sanitization efficiency.
Using automated UV robots or deep cleaning once a day, a week, or even, a month would fail in highly populated areas because once a sterilized surface is infected, no protection is guaranteed until periodical re-sterilization occurs.
It was time to make the change in how we operate fully automated sanitization in highly populated areas by axing our technology on the following aspects:
THE SURFACE
Defining
A SPECIFIC SURFACE AREA
Focusing
THE GERM-KILLING POWER
THE LIGHT
MAINTAINING
CONSISTENT STERILIZATION
THE AUTOMATION
We had to choose the areas with the highest frequency of interactions because they are the highest in risk of bacteria and infectious pathogens, especially since the smaller the area touched by hundreds of people every day, the higher the risk, and the higher the need for a sustainable sanitization solution directed towards this specific area. We used the laws of averages and probabilities to know how many people touch an area every day and we defined the intervals of interactions accordingly.
Because we already know the surfaces causing the highest risk in every place, we rely on close proximity when channeling the germ-killing power of our UV-C LED solutions thanks to diodes placed at a 90o incidence angle on the specific, limited-size surface area, hence limiting the risk of exposure and limiting any possibilities of energy dispersion, which makes our solutions the safest, the most effective, and the most sustainable for sanitization.
If 500 people touch the same area every day, we must sterilize this area 500 times to maintain protection throughout the day. We use pre-programmed motion sensors, flagging mechanisms, and timers paired with our UV-C LED system requiring no warm-up time to operate in order to fully automate the sterilization of the pre-specified area after every single interaction throughout the whole day while blocking any possible exposure to the skin and eyes with no wasted energy.
HOW THE TECH WORKS IN THE
ANCHORED LIGHTING SYSTEM
The world has come a long way since first introducing mercury lamps and UV solutions for disinfection.
UV disinfectants were always associated with high risk and unregulated energy consumption as these devices transform only up to 40% of power into sanitization rays.
SAL Systems now provide highly effective UV-C LED-based solutions that bring the future of automated sanitization to high-population areas with a fully sustainable and environmentally friendly approach.
What is the main concept behind our ALS technology?
We integrate a fully automated UV-C LED system based on diodes emitting light on a pre-specified area of surface that could be associated with high frequency of contact. In other words, a surface area that is statistically more vulnerable to infectious pathogens, microbes, bacteria, and viruses. We make sure that the positioned source of light is emitting its energy with the most aggressive angle of incidence to simulate the Sun’s germ-killing power that would surely inactivate any pathogen within seconds with limited energy.
How does the positioning of our light source increase our system's effectiveness?
Single light sources, such as the cases of UV-C robots and mercury vapor lamps, fail to sterilize a 3D object, since their initial location must be shifted around the targeted object to operate effectively, a long and inefficient process that leads to limited cycles of sterilization per week in most cases. No matter how intense their emitted energy is, they cannot possibly cover all the sides of a 3D object.
How does the positioning of our light source increase our system's effectiveness?
Based on the Anchored Lighting System developed and executed by SAL Systems, we can focus intensified energy towards a limited area while flagging any unnecessary exposure that might lead to risk, which means that the system organically differentiates areas that need to be sterilized and risk areas that are flagged to avoid any risk. By using highly sensitive lidar laser sensors, we maintain even distribution of energy throughout a specified timeframe between interactions, which leads to minimal risk of exposure based on the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP) Guidelines and the global standards set by the World Health Organization (WHO).
MAINTAINING NEW LEVELS OF
OPERATIONAL SUSTAINABILITY
In addition to extremely high amounts of plastic and metal waste generated each year by the production, transportation, and use of chemical disinfectants, chemical agents used for sanitization are no longer considered safe for use in indoor environments. According to the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) Foundation, chemical disinfectants are mostly classified as either toxic or even carcinogenic.
UV-C LED lamps, utilized in the ALS concept, build on all the advantages generated by mercury vapor lamps while negating any possible toxicity. as they are mercury-free, do not produce ozone, do not require any warm-up time, and exhibit significantly longer lifetime while even capitalizing on a more energy-conscient approach in functionality.
BRIDGING THE GAPS
The ALS concept is specifically developed by SAL Systems to bridge the gaps between energy consumption efficiency and sanitization efficacy with UV-C LED technology to achieve unprecedented levels of automated sanitization management in highly populated areas.