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  1. Stoneridge-Orlaco Launches Digital Ethernet Monitor

    Stoneridge-Orlaco Launches Digital Ethernet Monitor

    Stoneridge-Orlaco is launching a new 7-inch ELED. This digital Ethernet monitor is the latest addition to the Ethernet portfolio; it is compatible with our digital Ethernet cameras and radar. The new high-definition 7-inch ELED offers a high resolution that delivers razor-sharp images, providing operators with an optimum view of their working environment. The compact design makes the ELED ideal for vision solutions on construction machinery, cranes, trucks, buses and forklifts. As an example,...

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  2. Turn Assist system SideEye now complies with Direct Vision Standard London

    Turn Assist system SideEye now complies with Direct Vision Standard London

    The active camera and radar detection system "SideEye" of Stoneridge-Orlaco now also meets the requirements of the Direct Vision Standard. Vehicles with this blind spot system can also drive into the world city of London after March 1, 2021. Direct Vision Standard: safety permit for London To further reduce the number of accidents in London, the Direct Vision Standard (DVS) will come into effect on March 1, 2021. To be allowed in the city, all heavy-duty vehicles over 12 tons must have a saf...

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  3. Stoneridge-Orlaco introduces active turn assist system SideEye™

    Stoneridge-Orlaco introduces active turn assist system SideEye™

    Stoneridge-Orlaco introduces its active camera- and radar detection system ‘SideEye’ to reduce blind-spots and increase safety. The turn assist system actively alerts the driver when cyclists, pedestrians or other road users are present in the blind spot of the truck. SideEye therefore increases the safety of vulnerable road users in urban environments. SideEye is a certified Kraftfart-bundesamt (KBA) turn assist system. The blind spot warning system consist of a combination of radar signals,...

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  4. Third award for MirrorEye®

    Third award for MirrorEye®

    “MirrorEye is the most innovative mirror replacement camera system on the market” Automotive News has recognized Stoneridge with a prestigious PACE 2020 Award for its innovative MirrorEye® Camera Monitor System (CMS). This is the third industry award MirrorEye has received since October of 2019. During the last Busworld Europe exhibition, Stoneridge-Orlaco received the prestigious 2019 Busworld Innovation Label for this CMS. The award demonstrates MirrorEye as one of the best innovative de...

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  5. MirrorEye In Local Public Transport: A Safety Boost for Everyone

    MirrorEye In Local Public Transport: A Safety Boost for Everyone

    It's Monday morning and we are at a bus depot near Nordhausen in the southern foothills of the Harz mountains. Here we meet Thomas Fricke, a bus driver who has worked for local transportation company Verkehrsbetriebe Nordhausen for 20 years. He's about to start his shift. What makes his day a little bit more special is that for the last six months he has regularly been driving a bus, on a scheduled route, that is fitted with the MirrorEye camera system. Today is no exception. "It took a while...

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  6. ATS Group Installs CornerEye on New Natural Gas Trucks

    ATS Group Installs CornerEye on New Natural Gas Trucks

    ATS Group in Belgium has installed the CornerEye blind spot camera from Stoneridge-Orlaco on 23 new trucks. As a multidisciplinary technology group, safety and sustainability are top priorities when it comes to delivering electrical, HVAC, mechanical and distribution solutions, including truck safety — on the road and, in particular, on construction sites where getting a good view of surroundings is difficult. For Fleet Manager Jeroen Van den Berghe, the decision was not a difficult one: "We wer...

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  7. Stoneridge-Orlaco wins Innovation Label Busworld Europe

    Stoneridge-Orlaco wins Innovation Label Busworld Europe

    Stoneridge-Orlaco has been granted the prestigious Innovation Label 2019 Busworld Award with MirrorEye®. The Busworld Awards are one of the most important prizes in the bus and coach sector. The awards were granted during the Busworld Europe exhibition in Brussels (Belgium). All 514 exhibitors at the exhibition were given the opportunity to compete for the innovation award. Eventually, Stoneridge-Orlaco made the shortlist with 18 other exhibitors in the category ‘Innovation Label Non-Vehicles...

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  8. More than 10 buses featuring MirrorEye™ at Busworld Europe

    More than 10 buses featuring MirrorEye™ at Busworld Europe

    No fewer than 10 buses from different bus manufacturers will be in attendance at Busworld Europe in Brussels equipped with MirrorEye from Stoneridge-Orlaco. The innovative and advanced camera system has only just hit the market but is already being embraced by OEMs worldwide.  Replacing Exterior Mirrors with MirrorEye MirrorEye consists of two high-definition (HD) cameras mounted on the side of a vehicle. These cameras replace the exterior mirrors and cover the statutory mirror classes II an...

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  9. Better visibility and increased Safety for SUEZ Trucks

    Better visibility and increased Safety for SUEZ Trucks

    Safety Comes First Safety is paramount at SUEZ Netherlands. As Health & Safety Specialist for the company, Ralph Kerkhoff was involved in the decision to install CornerEye®, the blind spot camera from Orlaco. "We operate more than 850 trucks in a wide range of models. When we drive them through urban and residential areas and business parks, our top priorities are traffic safety and the safety of people and other road users. Our main focus is on preventing accidents, whatever the circumstan...

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  10. MCB Uses Orlaco System on DAF Trucks

    MCB Uses Orlaco System on DAF Trucks

    MCB, the metal wholesaler based in Valkenswaard in the Netherlands, is having its entire vehicle fleet fitted with an Orlaco camera system. The De Burgh DAF dealer in Eindhoven is currently busy installing the cameras on all 70 DAF tractor units, plus a further 105 semi-trailers. "Our work on our customers' premises often involves reversing in, and effectively you're reversing into a big black hole. This camera lets you see exactly what is going on inside, which makes the system ideal for...

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  11. One in two cyclists don't know where the blind spot is

    One in two cyclists don't know where the blind spot is

    Research shows that nearly 50% of adults don't know where a truck's blind spot is or where cyclists should position themselves in order to be safe when cycling near a large vehicle. 46% of all serious accidents involving the blind spot have a fatal outcome. And this happens despite the fact that cameras can easily be used to provide real-time coverage of blind spots. Research into how adult cyclists and bystanders approach the blind spots of large vehicles in traffic has shown that almost hal...

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  12. A growing number of accidents are being caused by people not being able to see properly when working on the road:

    A growing number of accidents are being caused by people not being able to see properly when working on the road:

    Poor visibility, cramped working conditions, time pressure, traffic racing past — experts say that people put their life at risk when working on a road sweeper. "Although it looks like an easy job, it isn't." An accident involving a road sweeper and two road workers took place recently during some routine maintenance work, when poor visibility resulted in both men ending up underneath the vehicle. This accident underlined the potential dangers of working with road sweepers. Experts mai...

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  13. Help Your Employees to Avoid Accidents!

    Help Your Employees to Avoid Accidents!

    This month, both the Dutch and German statistics offices, Statistics Netherlands and the Federal Statistical Office of Germany, will publish their official figures for accidents involving commercial vehicles in 2018. It is clear even now that both countries are set to report a worrying increase in accidents compared with 2017. You can prevent your employees from making the figures for 2019 even more concerning by using Stoneridge-Orlaco vision solutions. In 2017, there were 1484 accidents...

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  14. Ethernet vision solutions; Flexible in vision and connectivity!

    Ethernet vision solutions; Flexible in vision and connectivity!

    In the market since 1989 we see vision systems evolving from accessories to critical safety components in the future. Shared data increases efficiency. We see a work environment where video data is shared between mobile machines and the office, in cab displays and smart devices, to boost productivity and increase safety. These vision solutions are implemented in any market from construction to logistics and lifting to agriculture. Integrate on a HMI in a construction or mining environmen...

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  15. Make driving in the dark pleasant and safe!

    Make driving in the dark pleasant and safe!

    The sun rises late and sets early these days. With just eight hours of daylight, the dark time of year is still upon us, and for your truck drivers, these are the most difficult months. Good vision can't be guaranteed, but at the same time, this should not have a negative effect on your drivers' performance. Your employees need support during this period in particular. As a transport company, you can offer this support to them with solutions from Stoneridge-Orlaco! Every truck driver know...

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  16. FMCSA approves MirrorEye as alternative to mirrors for bus and coach

    FMCSA approves MirrorEye as alternative to mirrors for bus and coach

    As a lot of you might have heard that the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has granted a five-year exemption to install MirrorEye camera-monitoring system on trucks instead of traditional rear-view mirrors in the USA. But what about busses and motorcoaches? The good news is that the exemption not only applies to mirrors for trucks, but also to mirrors on multipurpose passenger vehicles and each bus, other than a school bus, with a gross vehicle weight rating of more than...

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  17. Shell AirFlow Starship Uses MirrorEye for Fuel Economy

    Shell AirFlow Starship Uses MirrorEye for Fuel Economy

    MirrorEye provides impressive results in fuel economy, as demonstrated by the fact that the system has been selected for Shell's AirFlow Starship — the truck of the future. The AirFlow Starship is a combination of a truck and trailer, and was designed by Shell to be as fuel efficient as possible. The truck contains a wide range of gadgets that help save on fuel. For example, solar panels are installed on the roof, the design is highly streamlined to minimize resistance and there are even...

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  18. ‘Truck Mirrors Create an Illusion of Road Safety’

    ‘Truck Mirrors Create an Illusion of Road Safety’

    OSC: "80% of mirrors on trucks are not adjusted properly" Most truckers in the Netherlands drive with incorrectly adjusted mirrors. What's more, they have no idea how to improve the adjustment themselves. This not only endangers road safety but also poses a major risk for drivers themselves. This is according to the Dutch umbrella road haulage organization, OSC. Every truck driver knows the feeling. You're driving through a busy city. It's beginning to grow dark and you need to make a...

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  19. ‘Our drivers no longer want to work without cameras’

    ‘Our drivers no longer want to work without cameras’

    Small mistakes can have large consequences, every transport company knows this. A. Van Velsen Transport B.V. has been choosing Orlaco’s camera and monitor systems for years for that reason. The result? More safety and less damage. Transport company with focus on concrete mortar and road construction A. van Velsen Transport B.V. is specialized in transporting concrete mortar. That is assigned by concrete factories in the West and central of the Netherlands. Besides that, the transport company...

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  20. Orlaco 170º Sideview on your side

    Orlaco 170º Sideview on your side

    In an urban area, maneuvering safely with a truck isn’t always easy. Orlaco’s 170º Sideview system offers a solution to make this process safer, more efficient and more comfortable. Combined with Front and Rearview, this vision system provides a view on all risky areas. Orlaco’s Sideview system consists of a FAMOS camera with 170°-lens that more than covers vision class V on a 7” monitor. The area on the side of the truck is completely visible. Pedestrians, cyclists and obstacles are clea...

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  21. CornerEye… Through the eyes of Bakker & Schilder and Gomes Noord-Holland

    CornerEye… Through the eyes of Bakker & Schilder and Gomes Noord-Holland

    As one of the Netherlands’ first transport companies, Bakker & Schilder equipped its new trucks with CornerEye®. This vision solution, developed and manufactured by Orlaco, has been officially approved as front and kerb mirror replacement. The cameras field of vision exceeds class V and VI and therefore contributes to road safety. “Our drivers are very satisfied”, Piet Bakker, CEO of the company from North-Holland, evaluates. “They are especially pleased with the fact that they can no...

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  22. Innovation makes front and kerb mirrors redundant

    Innovation makes front and kerb mirrors redundant

    Good news for truck manufacturers. Equipping trucks with mirrors is no longer necessary. Orlaco is the first company to receive RDW approval to deliver a camera/monitor system that replaces both mirrors for class V and VI (front and kerb mirror) : CornerEye®. Orlaco wants to improve traffic safety and decrease the amount of damages with this innovation. CornerEye is the first system that makes mirrors redundant with its component approval. The RDW has tested the system according to the R4...

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  23. Orlaco FAMOS camera in the ultimate challenge

    Orlaco FAMOS camera in the ultimate challenge

    The compact camera FAMOS can be used on all types of vehicles and is developed for the most extreme conditions. The watertight and shockproof housing guarantees perfect image under all circumstances. For that reason, Orlaco camera and monitor systems have been the solution for Dakar trucks for years. Built for the job Dakar is known for its extreme conditions. During the race on rough land, the trucks have to withstand impacts so powerful the wheels come off the ground. This requires mat...

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  24. MirrorEye makes mirrorless trucks possible

    MirrorEye makes mirrorless trucks possible

    Orlaco will introduce an intelligent camera system in 2017 to replace side mirrors on trucks and improve overall performance. MirrorEye's impressive features include night vision and an automated panning function. A crystal-clear view of all traffic in the vicinity MirrorEye consists of two High Definition (HD) cameras placed on either side of the cabin. The driver can view the camera images in real time on a split screen HD monitor in the window stile, providing him with an optimum view...

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  25. Rear Corner View for buses

    Rear Corner View for buses

    In city centers, proper vision around your bus or coach is vital due to increasing traffic. When making a sharp turn, the bus’s long tail can swing out dangerously. In this situation, the driver can no longer see the rear of the bus, which increases the risk of damage to the vehicle or its surroundings. That is why Orlaco provides a vision system designed for buses and coaches to eliminate blind spots on the rear. View on tail swing The rear of the bus is barely or not visible to the dri...

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