InSet Systems, LLC, a tenant in the Akron Global Business Accelerator, was recently featured in Popular Science magazine as one of the top 10 inventions for 2008.

InSet Systems, using a wireless radio network and inertial motion sensors, provides highly accurate location tracking for miners.  Miners wear a small transmitter, and the system is being developed with enough redundancies to remain operational even during collapse events.

Jim Ponceroff, who led a rescue team after the Sago mine collapse in West Virginia, is quoted as saying “This is going to be the best thing we’ve had ever, as far as I’m concerned.  I hope he makes a billion dollars.”

We do too Jim.  InSet has successfully tested the system in three mines and hopes to start licensing the technology by year’s end.