The Owl 360 Lcx3600 Rear Facing Camera & Lcd Monitor Cyclists Safety System Bike Review

Many have previously heard about a company chosen Cerevellum that'southward been putting together a rear-facing camera arrangement that ties into a wheel computer.  The goal of their organisation was to pattern a 'black box' type platform that records the video stream displaying what's going on backside the rider.  This video could be used in the event of an accident (or close telephone call).  But their system isn't the only one out there, and then this mail service will be a philharmonic dish of a few systems that I had the adventure to await at today at Interbike that all offer video solutions for folks on the go.

Note that I'll be doing a separate post with ones designed to record your activities (to evidence off to friends) similar the GoProHD, based on my hands-on playing with three devices at the Outdoor Demo on Tuesday.

Cerevellum Retrospect:

Let'south become ahead and start with Cerevellum and their Hindsight, since I mentioned them already.  Cerevellum'due south premise is combining an advanced cycle computer with that of a video camera (rear mounted).  Their arrangement has two major components with a cable connecting the two.  The first is the bike computer and LCD screen:

And the 2nd is the rear mounted camera (forth with three LED lights):

And while they recommend to mount this photographic camera rear facing – there's zilch keeping you from mounting it anywhere else you'd like.  And as noted above, there's a minor wire that routes betwixt the two components:

Too of note is that they've developed both a road cycle mount and a fourth dimension trial/triathlon bike mount.

The head unit of measurement and bike figurer is Emmet+ enabled and allows you to not only display the video stream, but besides ANT+ data similar speed/power/cadence/heart rate from ANT+ accessories – but similar a normal wheel computer.  These files are then downloadable afterwards.

The video stream records by default on a ten-minute loop. In the event of an blow there are built-in accelerometers to find an abnormal event and finish the video (which is continually written to memory).

Additionally, yous can also use the arrangement to capture drafters in a not-drafting race – but annotation that once you finish the video it'll only have saved the last ten minutes worth and if yous press showtime again you won't exist able to save the previous file.  This doesn't bear upon the cycle computer recording portion yet.

One cool feature is that Cerevellum is going to allow 3rd party developers to access the API and write apps for the device.  I saw a note yesterday from an ANT+ developer looking for "someone to develop a wheel computer that nosotros can write our own operating arrangement for" – and while that might be entirely be the case here…information technology might only be pretty close.  These apps (written in a Linux environment) would then be downloadable to the units from a Cerevellum marketplace like system.

Their goal is to have the units available by this Holiday Flavor, and should retail for $299.

Owl 360:

Side by side we have the Owl 360.  Their goal is much simpler than Cerevellum organization – by their own admission.  Their target audience isn't endurance athletes looking to have a full bike estimator on their handlebars. Instead they're focusing on the more casual user, primarily bicycle commuters and folks who may have kids in tow while on the bike.

Their arrangement doesn't tape data, but rather provides situational awareness behind you.  It allows one to see what's going on in a 'rear view mirror' sense, in hopes of beingness able to preclude a bad occurrence from happening.  Sorta like the systems in some cars now that accept a rear camera behind them.

The system includes two components.  The first is the rear mounted photographic camera, which also includes a series of high powered LED flashing lights (like a standard rear bike lite system):

This is continued via cable to the front of the the bike, where the brandish sits.  The display is a 3.v" LCD panel with a bombardment life of about five hours.  The display in plough shows the video in real time.

Information technology should be noted that the system is water resistant with an IPX6 rating – meaning that y'all can spray a bunch of water at it and information technology'll nevertheless keep ticking…but no snorkeling immune.

As noted earlier, with their simpler goal they're able to offer a lower price and thus accomplish a dissimilar market.  They'll besides exist bachelor by the vacation shopping flavour at a price of $179.

PivotHead:

Last but not least nosotros've got Pivothead, who makes the virtually James Bond looking sunglasses you'll ever run across.  These camera mounted glasses accept a small HD video camera mounted in the front – and are specifically designed for sports use.

How are they specifically designed for sports utilise you inquire?  Well, they've got a hardware based image stabilizer in it – which is in comparing to the many meaty sports camera systems that instead have a software based stabilizer (which generally suck).

The units support up to a 32GB MicroSD bill of fare in them, and record 720p Hard disk video.  You tin can besides take notwithstanding photos by only tapping the button on the bottom of the spectacles.

In guild to configure advanced settings on the fly away from a figurer they'll too exist offer an Android app that can use a MicroUSB connector cable to change settings on whatsoever Android telephone.  While they would love to eventually go the direction of Bluetooth – today it just adds to much infinite in the already space constrained unit.  As an bated, on their site they take a pretty solid list of all the technical features and settings you can change (more so than most companies do).

While the company allows you to customize virtually every part of the glasses to make something adequately stylish, they are really intended for sport use.  The units are h2o resistant to IPX3 levels – which means spraying of water confronting them is fine.  They'll likewise exist releasing a version targeted for watersports folks early on adjacent yr that'south more fully waterproofed for immersion.

The Pivothead spectacles volition exist available by the holiday buying flavour and available for $320…so go become your sporty James Bond on!

Equally always, if you've got any questions (or if you just plant this useful), feel gratis to drop a comment below.  Cheers for reading!

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Source: https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2011/09/look-at-rear-facing-cameras-for-bike.html

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