Alongside sponsorship partners Northside Truck and Van, Brigade Electronics will be exhibiting the seven times winning truck of British Truck Racing Champion Ryan Smith, on stand R16.
The truck is fitted with four VBV-790C cameras to the chassis, one for each wheel. Initially the idea was that the cameras would monitor what the suspension was doing. However, it quickly became apparent that the team could monitor the heat sensor that releases water to cool the brakes if they become too hot.
Ryan’s team were spending between £6-£8k of new brakes every year. Then the team spotted the heat sensor had moved out of alignment and wasn’t measuring the temperature of the brake system adequately. This meant the brakes were overheating and needing replacement too regularly. The team were able to immediately re-align the sensor, saving thousands of pounds and time in downtime.
Ryan Smith’s truck is fitted with eight cameras in total. A VBV-790 on the back to improve vision when reversing, two VBV-320C’s on the cab to act as wing mirrors and one VBV-320C inside the cab used as a forward-facing camera. All the cameras are connected to Brigades MDR-508G 2 tb digital recording system with live access to camera footage.
In the cab, the truck holds two seven-inch monitors mounted in portrait view and one ten-inch monitor for the reverse view.
