Our History

HSI Sensing Founder William Posey, circa 1965

In 1968, William Posey founded HSI Sensing in Chickasha, Oklahoma.  After helping create Reed Switch Technology at General Electric, Posey founded then what would become a multi-million dollar operation that would impact global markets.

Today, Posey’s sons, David and Tom, as well as his grandsons, Ryan and Travis, have developed and grown the company to third-generation greatness. With innovative product design and custom/niche solutions, the Poseys have taken the company to the pinnacle status of the sensing industry.

HSI Sensing is an ISO 9001:2008-registered company that designs, develops, and manufactures reed switches, proximity sensors, and other sensing technologies.

Clockwise Starting At Lower Left: David Posey, Travis Posey, Ryan Posey, Tom Posey

HSI provides custom and standard sensing solutions to industries including aerospace, agricultural, computer/electronic, construction, fluid processing, lawn/garden/turf, medical, military, security, and telecommunications.

Specific applications in which HSI products are used include burglar alarms, commercial and military jet engines, commercial lawn mowers, defibrillators, hearing aids, pacemakers, space station/space shuttle functions, test, measurement and diagnostic equipment (TMDE), Vagus nerve stimulators, valve-position monitoring devices, wireless devices, etc.  Customers include Fortune 500 companies as well as other key players in the global marketplace.