Administrator and assistant controllers in SmartBrake

What does this mean for you as a cyclist?

SmartBrake can be used with one or more wireless controllers. For example, you can have a brake mounted on the bicycle while a person nearby has a companion controller.

Both controllers can activate the brake. The difference concerns how the system reacts if the connection between the controller and the brake is lost.

When you have one controller

If SmartBrake has only one controller, it is always the administrator controller.

This means the system expects a connection with this controller. If the connection is lost or the battery becomes critically low, fail-safe is activated and the bicycle brakes.

This is a safety function. The bicycle should not continue as normal if the main control is no longer available.

When you have several controllers

If SmartBrake has several controllers, their roles are assigned as follows:

• The controller on the bicycle is the assistant controller.
• The companion controller held by the person nearby is the administrator controller.

The assistant controller on the bicycle can be used to brake as normal. If it loses the signal, fail-safe is not activated. However, if its battery becomes critically low, fail-safe will be activated.

The administrator controller is used as the companion control. If it loses the signal or its battery becomes critically low, fail-safe is activated.

Why does the brake engage by itself?

If SmartBrake brakes without you pressing the control, this is due to fail-safe. This can happen if:

• the administrator controller is too far away
• the administrator controller is in sleep mode
• the battery in a controller is critically low

Fail-safe activates the brake under specific system conditions. See the instructions for use for the configuration being used.

The controllers have different roles in the system. Their roles and the conditions for fail-safe must be assessed using the instructions for use for the setup.