Twiceme’s NFC-based digital security expertise has been round for just a few years now. The Swedish security model is understood for its scannable NFC chips, which retailer a consumer’s medical info, utilized in each jobsite security gear and a few snowboarding, climbing, and biking helmets. Along with medical ID, Twiceme additionally affords further options, together with location sharing, immobility alerts, and emergency companies notifications when used with the free Twiceme app.
Within the biking world, we’ve seen Twiceme built-in most steadily into quite a few fashions of POC highway/gravel and mountain bike helmets. Now, Twiceme is increasing its attain within the bike market, with the announcement of integration into 4 of Smith’s standard helmets. The Smith Triad and Hint highway/gravel fashions, together with the Payroll and Forefront 2 mountain bike helmets, are actually accessible with the Twiceme at no further value.
Out with Aleck, In with Twiceme
Apparently, all of those Smith helmet fashions had been beforehand accessible in the identical black/gray topo colorway with an Aleck crash sensor. The Aleck (previously Tocsen) crash sensor was initially a stick-on accent that was modified to suit into the dial of the adjustment harness on the aforementioned Smith helmets. This sensor was meant to alert your emergency contacts within the occasion of a crash.
For no matter motive, Aleck’s crash sensors now not look like in manufacturing, and they aren’t an possibility when buying any Smith helmets. As a substitute, fairly actually, Smith is now providing all of those helmets with the Twiceme digital security system.
Twiceme Options
Twiceme makes use of non-battery {hardware} within the type of a scannable NFC (Close to Discipline Communication) chip. This chip may be built-in straight into a motorcycle helmet or different gear, or, within the case of the Smith helmets, a disc constructed into the dial of the helmet’s match adjustment system.
Medical ID is the principle characteristic of the Twiceme system, and customers can add private medical info — allergic reactions, circumstances, drugs, and emergency contacts — by the Twiceme app. If essential, this info may be accessed by first responders or bystanders by hovering a smartphone over the Twiceme image, on this case, the rear adjustment dial.
The opposite options of Twiceme embody:
Share Location permits customers to pick out who can see their real-time location, serving to them maintain observe of their household, groups, or teams.
Emergency Companies allows customers to manually set off emergency notifications, using GPS capabilities to pinpoint their final identified location for a speedy response.
Get Again Timer permits customers to set anticipated return instances and routinely alerts designated contacts if the return is delayed.
Immobility Alert detects extended immobility, which may point out somebody is incapacitated, and triggers an emergency alert if the consumer doesn’t reply to a cell notification.
Smith x Twiceme Helmets: Fashions, Pricing, and Availability
Twiceme Digital Security expertise is at the moment being supplied on 4 of Smith’s helmet fashions, all of which come within the Matte Black / Topo colorway solely. These embody the highway/gravel-oriented Hint Mips and Triad Mips, in addition to the Payroll Mips and Forefront 2 Mips (to not be confused with the most recent Forefront 3). All of those fashions are at the moment priced the identical as their customary counterparts with out Twiceme.
Hint Mips Twiceme: $285
Triad Mips Twiceme: $225
Payroll Mips Twiceme: $230
Forefront 2 Mips Twiceme: $162 (discounted from $270)
The entire Smith x Twiceme helmets can be found now by the model’s web site.
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