The Light Ring wasn’t born in a lab or a corporate R&D department. The spark of an idea for it came in the field from a simple need during a long day’s work.
In 2014, while working in a lift station in Fort Dodge, Iowa, Shane Jacobson, co-owner of CIT Sewer Solutions, and a colleague asked a practical question: “Why doesn’t someone make a light that we can just lower into the structure and see what we’re doing?” That moment lit the fuse for what would become the Light Ring.Shane’s solution was elegantly simple but took several iterations to perfect. Prototypes
