The app is now available on Android and is out of Apple’s TestFlight programme, and into the Apple store. The main selling point of these lights is the smart factor. The ones I have are bright enough that you wouldn’t want to look at them for too long and on flash they are blinding. The ICON+ are 250 lumens and 420 lumens respectively. I have a set of the standard lights, they are 190 lumens at the back and 320 lumens at the front.
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The standard SEE.SENSE standard front and rear set, all you need to do is download the app to access all their features The twin Cree LEDs have special Lexan lenses to make the most of them. The lights are visible around 270 degrees and very visible even in daylight. In a pinch you would be able to manage with even the lowly standard 320 lumen front light if all of a sudden you went down a bit of unlit road, or the street-lights went off for some reason. I’m not sure I’d want to rely on it for long, for off-road, or badly made roads, but that’s not what it’s for. I had the old faithful light just in case, but the ICON set to constant mode didn’t fare too badly. When I commute to work at 4am this means that a good mile or so of my journey is on almost completely unlit roads. My local council decided a few years ago that to save money they would switch most of the street lights off at night. SEE.SENSE recommend that you use these as a ‘be seen’ light and add a brighter, dedicated light if you need ‘to see’.
The SEE.SENSE creators of the ICON lights have very sensibly chosen to activate features little by little, testing and improving the function of each one before activating the next one. It’s got to a stage now, on Version 28 of the firmware, that most of the features are now live and working so I can test it properly. I’ve been sitting on this review for a while because I’ve seen lots of other reviewers get in early and review the lights before all of the mentioned features were active. SEE.SENSE front and rear lights, could they revolutionise your ride? The lights communicate and can be controlled by your phone via an app. Built in sensors adjust flash pattern and speed to your changing environment. The SEE.SENSE ICON lights are intelligent and connected cycle lights. What's new with the Icon is the fact that the lights can communicate with the user's smartphone via Bluetooth.Īmong other things, this means that riders can wirelessly control flashing and brightness modes, check the lights' battery levels, set the lights to both turn on or off via the press of one of their power switches, or set them to automatically turn off after three minutes of the bike sitting still.Review of the SEE.SENSE ICON Front and Rear Set Using custom algorithms, it's able to match those readings up with ones that are associated with known risky traffic situations, so it can boost the rider's visibility accordingly. A microcontroller uses output from these sensors to determine factors such as cadence, uphill or downhill orientation, acceleration or braking, cornering lean, and yaw. Like the original See.Sense, the Icon head- and tail lights each contain a reverse-biased LED for measuring ambient light levels, along with an accelerometer. Now, their inventors have added even more functions by creating a connected version of the lights, known as See.Sense Icon. In all cases, the lights respond by shining brighter and blinking faster. Using integrated sensors, they can determine when the rider is doing things such as going through a road junction, navigating a roundabout, or moving through lanes of traffic – they can also tell when the sun is going down, or when vehicle headlights are approaching. It was just a couple of years ago that we first heard about See.Sense bike lights.
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