SEE SENSE ICON PLUS SOFTWARE
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You can adjust the brightness of your light using a simple slider on the app, so it's easy to maximise your battery life if you're running low. The operation of the movement and light intensity sensors via the app makes a bunch more sense than twisting and turning the light manually to achieve different settings, as you had to with the previous version. I wonder if an audible alarm on the light itself might be useful to scare away potential thieves. This makes it great for bike storage outside of shops or a cafe, where you might only be using a small physical lock to protect your bike. It becomes active when you and your smartphone walk out of range (3 metres) and will not deactivate until you are back within range unless you choose to turn it off. When activated, the slightest movement of the light will activate the audible alarm on your phone, which hopefully gives you enough time to run outside and check on your bike.

SEE SENSE ICON PLUS SOFTWARE

The anti-theft mode was operational in the beta version of the software I tested. It is also simple to mount using a rubber wraparound, provided.

The Fresnel lens (stepped, or ridged, like those in a lighthouse) means the Icon has good sideways visibility.

I like the mode where you have both a fixed and a pulsating light, but there are lots of seizure-inducing flashy modes to play around with. Amazingly there's also an Icon+ with 2 x 125 lumens to keep you safe, even during daylight hours.Īs with the original See.sense lights, the Icon features motion and light sensitive technology so it runs brighter and flashes faster when it senses you need it most. This is not a light to turn on while looking at it – it is ferociously bright. The Icon uses super-bright twin Cree LEDs running at 95 lumens each, which certainly count as bright enough for the old joke 'do not look at laser with remaining eye'. This nifty little blazer will also tell your loved ones if you have a crash, and alert you if someone tries to make off with your bike when it's parked up.

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The new Icon includes a plethora of extra features linked to a free app so you can control the light on your smartphone. 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.The original See.Sense light topped our ' People's Choice' of rear lights in November, with 26 per cent of the vote. 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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