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Boise company seeks to use radar to detect elk on road

Technology used to protect military convoys can be used to avert collisions with deer and elk in central Idaho, a Boise company says.

"This is technology adapted from military use to animal detection," Sloan Security Technologies company co-founder Brian Sloan said about the equipment initially used in Iraq and Afghanistan.

He presented his ideas last week to Blaine County officials and the Idaho Transportation Department, the Idaho Mountain Express reported. The mobile radar animal-detection system alerts drivers with flashing lights when animals are present, he said.

Read more here: http://www.idahostatesman.com/2014/09/16/3377380_radar-alert-elk-on-road.html?sp=/99/1687/&rh=1#storylink=cpy

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