Established in 2008, SPIRIT (HK) Sports Co., Ltd. is a specialized helmet manufacturer in China providing comprehensive OEM & ODM services. Our team offers over 18 years of experience serving international brands, backed by a factory with more than 20 years in sports equipment manufacturing.
We develop a wide range of safety helmets—including models for cycling, skiing, motorcycling, and climbing—all engineered to meet major international safety standards such as CE, CPSC, ASTM, and AS/NZS.
As an ISO9001 certified company, we are committed to integrity, quality, and customer satisfaction. We leverage our strong R&D capabilities and professional technical team to deliver the safest protection products to a global market, with primary exports to North America, Europe, Australia, and other regions.
A key concern for any smart helmet is whether the integrated electronics interfere with its ability to protect the rider. Reputable manufacturers like SPIRIT engineer their helmets to ensure this is not the case. The helmet must pass the exact same safety standards as a non-smart helmet, such as CPSC 1203 in the US or EN 1078 in Europe. During the design process, components like the battery and circuit board are placed in areas where they will not compromise the structural integrity of the shell or the crushable EPS foam liner. The helmet then undergoes the full battery of destructive impact tests to prove it meets the standard. When you buy a certified smart helmet, you are getting a product that has been proven to be just as safe as its traditional counterparts.
Crash detection in a smart helmet is a valuable safety feature that has become increasingly reliable. The technology uses a built-in multi-axis accelerometer and gyroscope to constantly monitor for the violent, tumbling forces that are characteristic of a crash. When these forces exceed a certain threshold, the helmet's firmware triggers an alert through a connected smartphone app. The app will typically start a countdown, giving the rider a chance to cancel the alarm if they are okay. If it's not canceled, the app automatically sends a text message with the rider's GPS location to their pre-set emergency contacts. While no system is 100% foolproof, the algorithms have been refined to be highly accurate, making a smart helmet with this feature a powerful tool for getting help quickly, especially when riding alone.
The choice between an integrated smart helmet and a regular helmet with add-on accessories comes down to integration, convenience, and safety. While you can attach separate lights, speakers, and communicators to a regular helmet, the result is often a clumsy, heavy setup with multiple batteries to charge and a higher likelihood of a component snagging or falling off in a crash. An integrated smart helmet, engineered by an expert like SPIRIT, offers a seamless and often lighter solution. The features are designed to work together perfectly, all powered by a single rechargeable battery. Most importantly, it has been tested and certified for impact safety with all the components installed, a guarantee you don't get when adding third-party accessories.
A modern smart helmet integrates a suite of technologies to enhance rider safety and convenience. The most common features include a high-visibility LED lighting system, often with front and rear lights, turn signals, and automatic brake lights. Bluetooth connectivity is a core feature, enabling hands-free phone calls, music streaming, and GPS navigation audio through built-in speakers and a microphone. Advanced models include safety sensors like an accelerometer, which can detect a hard fall and trigger a connected app to send an SOS alert with your location to emergency contacts. As a leading manufacturer, SPIRIT has the capability to integrate all of these features into a single, cohesive, and certified safe smart helmet.
A smart helmet integrates electronic technology to enhance safety and convenience. Core features typically include a high-visibility LED lighting system (often with turn signals and automatic brake lights), Bluetooth connectivity for audio (music, podcasts, calls) and communication, and onboard sensors like an accelerometer to detect braking or a potential crash. Many also feature connectivity to a dedicated smartphone app.
Bluetooth connectivity pairs the smart helmet with a smartphone. This allows the rider to stream audio directly to built-in speakers, make and receive hands-free phone calls using an integrated microphone, and listen to turn-by-turn GPS navigation. Some advanced models also use Bluetooth for a helmet-to-helmet intercom system or to connect to a handlebar remote for controlling features like turn signals.
An accelerometer is a sensor that detects changes in motion and velocity. In a smart helmet, it serves two primary functions. First, it can sense when a rider is decelerating and automatically trigger a bright brake light to alert traffic behind them. Second, it can be programmed to detect the unique forces of a hard fall or crash. This "crash detection" feature can then trigger a connected smartphone app to send an emergency alert with the rider's location to pre-selected contacts.
It does not, provided the helmet is engineered by an expert manufacturer. A reputable partner like SPIRIT designs the smart helmet from the ground up, ensuring that the placement of batteries, circuit boards, and wiring does not interfere with the structural integrity of the shell or the energy-absorbing EPS foam liner. The helmet must still pass all the same rigorous impact safety standards (like CPSC or CE) as a non-smart helmet.
This is a highly collaborative process. It starts with defining the hardware features of the smart helmet and the desired functions of the mobile app. SPIRIT's engineering team then develops the helmet's hardware and the firmware (the onboard software) that controls it. We provide your software development team with an SDK (Software Development Kit) that allows your app to communicate with the helmet via Bluetooth. This partnership ensures that the hardware and software work together seamlessly to create a polished user experience.
Reliability is ensured through rigorous testing and high-quality components. At SPIRIT, we conduct extensive testing on all electronic components for durability, water resistance (IP rating), and performance in a range of temperatures. Battery life is a function of battery capacity (measured in mAh) and the efficiency of the electronics. We engineer our helmets with high-capacity Lithium-ion batteries and smart power management firmware to provide hours of use, and we utilize modern, convenient charging standards like USB-C.
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