ADAS kit brings advanced driver warning features for safety in existing commercial vehicles

bitsensing has launched the ADAS Kit, an ADAS solution designed to significantly improve safety and driving awareness in existing commercial vehicles by providing an extensive range of driver warnings during vehicle operations.

Commercial vehicles have always operated under conditions of heightened risk on roadways, with drivers encountering larger blind spots, longer braking distances, and frequent and unexpected interactions with pedestrians and other road users. Commercial vehicles, typically HGVs, are involved in 14% of all fatal road crashes in the EU (ERSO report) and 9% in the US (NHSTA report).

• The company has launched the kit as a much more affordable driver-assistance system that significantly upgrades the road safety warning systems of commercial vehicle fleets.
• By fusing two critical road safety sensors – radar and cameras – the ADAS Kit delivers real-time driver warnings for collision risk and blind-spot hazards, enhancing situational awareness and safer driving. It supports drivers during driving, manoeuvring, and stationary scenarios.
• The product is being sold as an aftermarket ADAS solution that can be easily installed and scaled into existing vehicles to aid fleet management.

The solution is built for commercial vehicle environments, which:

• Integrate advanced ADAS safety warning features: ADAS Kit provides extensive and advanced road safety warnings to drivers, including BSIS (Blind Spot Information System), SVM (Surround View Monitoring), RCW (Rear Collision Warning), FVSA (Front Vehicle Start Alert), FCW (Forward Collision Warning) and MOIS (Moving Off Information System).
• Why these advanced features matter: These features are designed to help commercial vehicles safely navigate complex urban driving environments where sudden stops and pedestrian encounters occur frequently.
• All delivered to drivers in a simple interface in-vehicle: All the safety alerts are provided to drivers in an intuitive interface within their vehicle, enhancing their awareness and supporting safer decision-making in demanding commercial driving environments.
• Supports UNECE regulatory compliance: ADAS Kit supports key United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) regulations, including R151 (Blind Spot Information System) and R159 (Moving Off Information System), ensuring compliance with international safety standards for commercial vehicles. Both regulations are part of the UNECE safety standards enforced in Europe for large vehicles.

The solution is engineered for the aftermarket:

• Delivering affordable ADAS to existing commercial fleets: The product is available at a very competitive price point to ensure scalable and cost-effective deployment from modernising commercial fleets.
• Quick and easy installation: bitsensing engineered ADAS Kit to specifically have a retrofit-ready architecture, meaning it can be quickly and simply installed, with minimum maintenance subsequently required, resulting in no disruption to commercial fleet operations.

ADAS Kit is built for instant deployment today, and rather than offering individual components, it provides a complete, system-level safety package optimised for real-world fleet management and deployment. It does this, critically, through sensor fusion: fusing bitsensing’s radar solution with cameras.

Through this fusion, ADAS Kit maintains high perception of accuracy and fast warning response times even in demanding commercial vehicle environments, facilitating precise detection of vehicles, motorcycles and pedestrians.