FROM LEDS TO SMART BUILDING SOLUTIONS.

MHT’s Inspextor product is seeing fast adoption and growth in commercial offices and data centers – quickly outpacing the revenue from its reliable fixture product lines which it continues to produce for their various global customers to this day.

The pandemic spurred a lot of change, including new opportunities. In the summer of 2020, MHT gained new leadership from the appointment of several new members to its board with deep experience in real estate development in the New Jersey and New York areas. Soon thereafter, Ira Horowitz, an IBM veteran and respected team developer, was appointed to the chief executive officer role.

Using its intimate knowledge of lighting technology and previous experience with developing its own in-house energy management software, MHT used its team of developers to launch Inspextor, their PoE-based smart building software, in 2018 to bring together all connected devices into one easy to use interface.

MHT’s mantra has always been to be a high quality, reliable partner with its customers. In the first year of the market launch, MHT focused on quietly testing its software with a variety of customers.

In 2016, MHT saw a market need for a reliable software platform to create a complete Internet of Things (IoT) building solution system that could manage all PoE-connected devices. At the time, PoE technology was just beginning to expand beyond PoE lighting. Cabling providers, switch manufacturers, IoT sensor developers, and the other supportive technologies were advancing rapidly to meet demand but were challenged to find a complete, reliable software solution. Customers, excited about a low-voltage DC infrastructure, hesitated to adopt technology without an easy and reliable way to have visibility into their connected devices.

MHT was one of the first lighting fixture companies to create native PoE lighting fixtures for use in PoE technology applications in data centers across the United States. In 2013, MHT expanded its product offering to include a patented Energy Management software platform. This innovative system allowed commercial clients to reduce their overall electric bill by an average of 15%. It was successfully acquired by a large corporation.

MHT Technologies (MHT) was founded in Staten Island, NY, in 2009 by three friends: Matiz, Howard, and Tom. They came together to create energy efficient and innovative lighting fixtures for commercial Properties.

Advancements in technology brought the cost of LEDs down to a level that allowed mass adoption and long-term viability for MHT’s fixtures. Around the same time, new Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) technologies came into the early adopter market that combined the advancements in PoE cable power capabilities and the declining power consumption of LED fixtures to create something never seen before: PoE lighting.