About Us

If you’ve ever tried to fly a drone or review live video outdoors, you’ve probably experienced the same frustration we did.

The drones keep getting better. The cameras keep getting better.

But once you’re standing in bright sunlight, trying to share that video with your team, you’re back to fighting glare, reflections and tiny controller screens.

That’s not a drone problem. It’s a display problem.

For organizations that rely on real-time information, it’s more than an inconvenience. It slows communication, limits collaboration and makes it harder for teams to make confident decisions in the field.

So how did Brytee end up solving that problem?

It Started with a Phone Call

Brytee wasn’t born from a business plan.

It started with a phone call from a drone services company that also trains drone pilots. They couldn’t clearly see the drone’s video feed during outdoor operations. Existing monitors weren’t bright enough, the controller screen was too small for groups to gather around, and nothing on the market was built specifically for the way drone teams operate.

They asked if we could help.

The answer was yes — but only because we’d already spent decades solving this exact problem for a different kind of field team.

That conversation became the first Brytee monitor. The name was a natural fit. Brightness wasn’t just another feature — it was the key to making an outdoor display truly usable.

Why settle for dim nits when you can have a Brytee?

Today, Brytee helps public safety agencies, military units, utility companies, inspectors, educators and commercial drone operators solve that same problem every day.

The Technology Behind the Brightness

Brightness sounds simple until you try to build it. Every Brytee monitor ships at a minimum of 2,500 nits — often significantly brighter.

But nits alone don’t get you sunlight readability. Without optical bonding, a bright panel still reflects sunlight back at you as glare. Optical bonding cuts the glare by over 65%, allowing the user to clearly see the screen rather than fighting the sun.

Add wide-range screen dimming, so a team can operate stealthily at night, and you get a display that’s actually usable outdoors 24/7. 

If it ain’t 2,500 nits, it ain’t Brytee enough.

Tough by design – validated by test

Before Brytee, our team at Gemlight Technologies spent decades building sunlight-readable displays for the public safety market. In all that time, only two units were ever returned for failure.

That standard of quality followed us into Brytee.

One of our earlier Brytee customers was the San Francisco Police Department. Our monitor was every bit as bright and sunlight-readable as we promised. It just didn’t matter, because the unit that came back had broken free of its mount.

A brilliant screen that breaks loose in the field is no better than a dim screen that can’t be read.

Our founder didn’t just process the return — he spent an afternoon literally throwing the unit around the office, trying to recreate the failure.

Eventually he found it: if it hit the ground at a specific angle, the monitor jolted upward against its VESA mount and popped out of its support.

So he closed the gap that allowed that movement, and the failure point was gone for good.

Building a system that could survive that kind of abuse took nearly as much effort as designing the monitor itself. It taught us something we’ve never forgotten: police officers responding to an emergency don’t have time to be careful with their equipment. 

A monitor that can’t survive that environment isn’t a monitor you can count on — no matter how bright it is.

That’s why every unit that leaves our facility is tested before it ships. 

Not so we can call it rugged –
so it works when you need it.

We Solve Field Problems

Most customers come to us because their existing hardware isn’t doing the job they need.

Their team can’t clearly see the drone feed. They want to deploy live video quickly without running cables everywhere. They need equipment that’s portable, battery-powered and built for outdoor work — not the office.

Helping teams make better use of valuable real-time information is our goal — whether that’s training new pilots, inspecting critical infrastructure, supporting first responders, documenting a job site,  or filming the next Hollywood blockbuster. 

The mission isn’t the monitor. The mission is what the monitor makes possible.