NH High Tech Council Announces Semi-finalists for Product of the Year

The New Hampshire High Tech Council (Council) has selected nine semifinalists for its 10th annual Product of the Year Award, which celebrates new or updated high tech products developed or invented in New Hampshire in the past year. The winner will be announced at the Council’s signature event from 5:30 to 8 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 12, 2015, at the Manchester Country Club in Bedford. The 2015 semifinalists are:

• ARC Energy’s CHES500 Furnace, the world’s largest automated production Sapphire furnace, capable of producing single-crystal Sapphire boules, which are the largest crack-free sapphire crystals in the world and are used in LED lighting and cell phone cover glass;
• B2W Software’s Maintain, an enterprise-class construction software for transportation, water, sewer, petroleum, power and telecommunications industries;
• Edge Velocity’s Edge Interlock Router Suite, which delivers secure voice, video and data between stationary and fast-moving users in challenging indoor and outdoor environments;
• FreshAir Sensor’s FreshAir Sensor-Plug In, which detects any airborne evidence of nicotine or marijuana and communicates immediate alerts back to the customer;
• Patient Centered Medical’s (PC) The Zephyr, a respiratory suction catheter used in the more effective delivery of antibiotics in the treatment of pneumonia;
• Plexxi’s The Plexxi Switch 2, a disruptive networking solution that transforms decades-old legacy network architecture with today’s complex and dynamic networking needs;
• PickUpPatrol’s web app of the same name, which helps schools and their parents safely and conveniently communicate changes to after school transportation;
• Rapid Insight’s Rapid Insight Analytic Platform which integrates data that exists in diverse formats and in various locations and effortlessly brings them together into cloud sources; and
• Retrieve Technologies’ Retrieve SaaS, a platform that provides new tools to communicate more effectively in a video and mobile economy.

The nine semifinalists will be narrowed to a smaller field of finalists in the coming week. The finalists will then present their innovations to the live audience at the awards event and along the way receive advice, major product promotion and podium time in front of hundreds of entrepreneurs and tech leaders. The first place POY winner will also be featured in a display at the I-93 South Welcome Center in Hooksett.

As one of the major business events in New Hampshire, POY offers finalists and winners significant visibility through the judging process and product demonstrations, both at the event and in overall promotions. Past Product of the Year award winners include Prosenex, Nanocomp Technologies, UltraVision, Insight Tech Gear, Holase Incorporated, Sky-Skan, Foss Manufacturing, Therma-HEXX, and Single Digits. To register to attend the POY event on Nov. 12, please visit nhhtc.org.