International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology (IRJET)
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Volume: 10 Issue: 05 | May 2023
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Smart Bicycle-Sharing System Tejas Bobale1, Atharva Ghule2, Sanket Jadhav3, Savita Sangam4 Shivajirao S. Jondhale College of Engineering, Dombivli (E.) University of Mumbai -----------------------------------------------------------------------***-----------------------------------------------------------------------Abstract— Students who can’t afford vehicles or have to stay away from their hometown to seek education may sometimes encounter the problem of traveling to places where public transport services are not available. Bicycling is an alternative means of transport for shortdistance movement. It is important to make the rental bicycle usable and available to the person in need at the appropriate time and place. Inevitably, providing the college with a steady supply of rental bicycles becomes a major concern. Rental bicycles are popular in many urban areas to help people expand their mobility. Public bicycle rental systems have become popular in recent years. Considering this, many universities and colleges provide bicycle-rental pilot programs for faculty, staff, and students. The expanded program provides people on campus with quick, accessible transportation with added features like a tracking device, SOS distress signal button, and gesture-controlled taillight indicator. This paper presents a prototype model of a smart bicycle-sharing system. The proposed system incorporates an Android Application which lets you book a bicycle; the provided bicycles have taillights that indicate the direction of the turn using the motion of the rider’s hand. Bicycles consist of a tracker which sends notifications to the admin’s smartphone of their current location and an SOS button that will send an alert to the admin when pressed.
The bicycle parking system with a digitally controllable locking mechanism, compatible with the system requested by the provider, such as RFID cards, tags, etc [11]. The proposed system incorporates an RFID card reader which scans the user card and checks for a valid user. Our innovative bicycle parking system, well thought-out from all aspects, enables the user to safely lock the bicycle in seconds without having to carry any lock. The ingenious locking mechanism locks the bicycle’s front wheel [12]. The tracker has an Ai Thinker A9G GSM/GPRS Development Board which has a SIM slot in it. The admin can send predefined text messages (e.g., “SEND LOCATION”) on the phone number of the inserted SIM and then the tracker will send back a message with its GPS coordinates and Google map link along with it. The tracker comes with an SOS button which the rider can use if he/she is lost or not feeling safe with the surrounding. When the rider presses the button, the tracker will send an alert message and also call on the admin’s phone [15]. The Gesture-controlled taillight indicator consists of 2 key components, the gesture-control glove to be worn by the user and an indicator unit (8x8 LED matrix) to be mounted below the seat of the bicycle. The 2 devices wirelessly communicate with each other to achieve the desired output. The Arduino Nano board initializes the gyroscope (MPU6050 module) that collects data and sends raw values to Arduino. The Arduino code uses a tiny machine learning model with gesture recognition: each hand movement is analysed and recognized (hand tilted to the left, right, front, etc.).
Keywords — RFID, MPU6050, A9G board, Arduino UNO/NANO, NRF24L01, SMS, SOS.
1. INTRODUCTION Rental bicycles are popular in many urban areas to help people expand their mobility. Making the rental bicycle usable and available to the public at the appropriate time and place is important [1][2]. This Project consists of four modules, Android Application, a Locking Mechanism, a tracker, and a Taillight indicator.
Then this signal is sent with the help of the NRF24L01 2.4GHz Wireless Transceiver Module to another NRF24L01 Module connected to Arduino Uno which shows the output with an 8x8 LED matrix. According to the signal received by the Arduino Uno, some patterns light up on the LED matrix, so that other road users can see what the cyclist is going to do (will take right or left turn) [19][20].
In this JAVA-based Android application, students and staff can rent a bicycle from the college campus by creating their accounts on the Application. Users can register and log in using their Username and password, book bicycles, check current ride duration, update their profile, and check their history. In the android part, the front end involves XML, and the back end involves Android Java and Firebase. The IDE used is Android Studio [3].
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