Brigade Electronics develops camera systems, obstacle-detection equipment, recording systems, and audible warning devices for commercial vehicles and mobile machinery. Its products support visibility and awareness around trucks, trailers, buses, and off-highway equipment.
Truck Equipment Atlas covers Brigade products to help readers understand surround-view cameras, reversing alarms, and the differences between visual assistance and obstacle-detection systems.
History and Background
Chris Hanson-Abbott founded Brigade Electronics in 1976 after encountering a reversing alarm on a vehicle in Tokyo. He introduced Brigade’s first reversing alarm at the Commercial Vehicle Show in London that year.
The company subsequently expanded from reversing alarms into camera-monitor systems, obstacle detection, vehicle recording, and other safety equipment. Its product development addresses the visibility challenges associated with large commercial vehicles and mobile machinery.
What Brigade Electronics Develops and Supplies
- Commercial-vehicle cameras and monitors
- Backeye 360 surround-view camera systems
- AI camera systems with human-detection capability
- Radar and ultrasonic obstacle-detection systems
- bbs-tek White Sound reversing alarms
- Self-adjusting reversing alarms
- Mobile digital recording equipment
- Driver-safety and vehicle-monitoring systems
Brigade Electronics Products on Truck Equipment Atlas
Surround-View Camera Systems
- Brigade Backeye 360 Camera System — A camera system that combines views from around the vehicle into a surround-view image.
- Brigade Backeye 360 AI Camera System — A surround-view system incorporating AI human-detection capability.
Reversing Alarms
- Brigade SA-BBS-107 White Sound Reversing Alarm — A self-adjusting audible warning device for reversing applications.
Technology and Product Development
Backeye 360 processes images from cameras positioned around a vehicle to provide a combined surround view. The system helps operators observe areas that can be difficult to see during low-speed maneuvering.
Backeye 360 AI adds human-detection technology to a four-camera surround-view system. Its detection function serves a different role from displaying camera images alone.
Brigade’s bbs-tek White Sound alarms use broadband sound to help people identify the direction of a reversing vehicle. Self-adjusting models adapt their output to surrounding noise conditions.
Camera systems, detection equipment, and audible alarms address different aspects of vehicle awareness. Their effectiveness depends on suitable product selection, installation, configuration, and maintenance.
Company and Location Information
Brigade’s international office is at Brigade House, The Mills, Station Road, South Darenth, United Kingdom. Brigade Electronics Inc. lists its U.S. address at 1976 W Tyson Road, Portland, Indiana 47371.
The company serves commercial-vehicle and equipment customers through regional businesses and a network of approved distributors and installers.
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