November 1, 2001
Venture Niagara, formerly Welland Business and Community Development Corporation
If the secret of success is to find a need and fill it, Electrical Engineer Scott Riesebosch has developed a variation to “find a safety need and solve it by innovation and imagination”. Taking the business name from their first product, a child reminder system, the Company has developed an alarm system that makes sure school bus drivers check their buses for sleeping children at the end of their runs. In late January 2001, a four year old Niagara Falls boy was left sleeping on a school bus. CRS President Scott Riesebosch made a donation of enough child reminder systems to the school bus contractor to protect their fleet. This generous donation won numerous front page articles and media attention in the Hamilton Niagara area. The district school board of Niagara is requiring all bus contractors to have the system installed. The company hopes that other school boards will follow the Niagara Board’s example.
In order to develop other safety products and market internationally, CRS applied to the Welland Business and Community Development Corp. for a loan. The company has developed a new warning light technology called Strobing LEDs. This warning light technology has widespread applications including schoolbuses, emergency vehicles, construction zones, and railroad crossing lights. This lighting technology generates a superior attention getting effect similar to strobe lights, but uses much safer voltages and lasts 10 times longer. The company has a series of products including battery-powered handheld warning “wands,” portable stop signs, as well as school bus warning lights.
Negotiations are ongoing with potential distributors in 15 countries interested in representing the firm’s product lines. With the concern for safety increasing, Scott Riesebosch is confident for the company’s future.
