Beginning in 2005, Thompson Engineering Company was created to provide environmental consulting and engineering assistance to state and local governments. Our background in solar powered electronic sensors and GPS/AVL systems provided an excellent means of implementing self-sustaining remote-control environmentally-conscious decision systems. We provided consulting assistance to Midwest state governments on waterway usage, chemical usage plans for ice and snow removal activities, and installed weather monitoring devices and traffic control devices for the motoring public. This included two successful patent applications for solar powered road closure & hazard warning systems.

In 2007, this experience led TEC into the fields of water and energy conservation engineering through the use of rain harvesting systems and solar powered communications devices (cellular, wi-fi, and satellite) connected to various types of sensor suites. The majority of this work, to date, has been research and development assistance for state governments which includes proof of concept demonstrations, pilot projects, and smaller scale energy storage systems.

In 2010, TEC entered the field of designing and installing solar panel arrays.  We have installed systems for the federal government at national parks and veteran’s hospitals.

Throughout our history we have continued to innovate and develop technologies around the GPS/AVL concept with recent work in protocols for mobile data platforms, designs for remote controlled chemical systems for snow plows and storm planning technologies for state and local government.

The professional engineers at Thompson Engineering are also experts at electronic data gathering using several survey instruments from aerial photography, questionnaires, electronic sensors, and digital counters. This includes health and usage monitoring devices for our installation sites. The information gathered from these systems are used to diagnose potential system failures, identify operational and maintenance trends, and provide prognosis of future events. Thompson Engineering provides information modeling techniques to assist in decision support systems based on large data sets created from remote electronic sensors and data gatherers.

In 2014 Thompson Engineering was incorporated as G. E. Thompson, Inc., but the company is still doing business as Thompson Engineering Company.