Burner Brake
Burner Brake is an advanced rear light for safer urban commuting. It combines class-leading LED lighting technology with an advanced, proprietary braking algorithm. It works to better communicate a cyclist’s position and movements to other road users and prevent avoidable collisions.
Find out how we helped Beryl develop an award winning product, designed to make cyclist’s commute safer in urban environments.
Services
Year
Research and analysis
Concept development
Design and engineering
Product graphics
Packaging
Manufacture support
2018
Industry
Medical
Safety critical
Military
Transport
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Commercial
Brief
Technology developed by beryl allowed a product such as the Burner Brake to exist. Utilising machine learning, the onboard software knows how the cyclist is riding, detecting events such as sudden braking. When the rider brakes, 24 LEDs flare brighter to 200 lumens to create a visable warning to other road users of the riders actions.
Beryl approached us to create a product which allows their technology to shine. The product needed to be durable, stylish, approachable, and compact. To enable this to become widely adopted, the product had to meet strict costing targets to allow this to be attainable by every city commuter; technology like this shouldn’t be limited to the riders who can afford it.
Solution
Understanding how important cost was to this project, we started to develop a z-up assembly architecture to enable a truely simple, intuative assembly at the factory. Utilising internal clipping features and clever nesting, we were able to package the internals into a incredibly small package, only limited by the contrainsts of the standard recharagble battery houses inside.
As with all automotive design, the iconography of the lighting systems creates the character of the car. As this product would share the same space as those cars, we wanted to create it’s own identity on the road. Inkeeping with a bicycles silloutte from the rear, we knew keeping a thin appearance would be important. Balancing proportions with the internal systems, we developed a classic oval shape, instantly recognisable as a brake light. Wrapping the rear lens across the front edge of the product allows for the light to be visable from the side clearly.
One simple button in the middle of the product gives only one, easy to use, intuative operation: single press for on, long press for off. We added a subtle longitudinal texture on the inner island to create a clear and precise location for the button, guiding the user intuatively.
To allow the lights to shine clearly, we utalised a metalic stamped guide, which helped reflect all of the light out the front and sides. Subtle texturing on the interior of the lens furthered the guiding of the light, increasing the brightness of the LEDs without requiring any extra energy.
