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Print Edition StoriesWednesday, September 1, 2010
Tech across New England
Holase uses lights, wireless tech to save lives
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Holase Inc.
Location: Newmarket, N.H.
Web: www.holase.com
Phone: 603-397-0038
Date founded: 2009
Top executive: Evan Bontemps, CEO
Industry: Safety and security equipment for first responders
For Holase, technology is about saving lives. It draws its name from the two-letter pairs in the term homeland security. The company’s first product — the UPTMS — partners LED lighting with wireless controllers to create portable red, yellow and green traffic lights. The UPTMS was named product of the year by the New Hampshire High Tech Council less than a year after the company was founded in 2009. Basically, the light system is set up on a roadway near a construction site or on a detour route, while a police officer or flagman uses a wireless controller from up to 1,000 feet away. Holase, which is self-funded, plans to use its wireless technology in other safety and security related products. The company says that in the U.S. more than 300 police officers and civilian flaggers are killed in traffic-control situations each year.
From the top, CEO Evan Bontemps: “Our first product, the ultra portable traffic light, is not a sexy product but it solves a big problem. It’s a huge problem, and no technologies existed to help them solve that problem. The genesis of the product is that we want to make sure that whoever has been designated to manage the flow of traffic doesn’t have to be in the middle of the road in harm’s way.”
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