Prototyping design of a low-cost bike sharing system for smart city application

Abstract

The bike is offer advantages compared than smoky vehicles, e.g. it can be used as a government's program for reducing carbon emissions as well as minimalizing the noise levels in the city. Moreover, the bike is used as an alternative transportation for tourists who want to explore the visited city. By seeing the potential of a large application in the bike rentals, some cities have been installed a “Bike Sharing System”, which is a bike rental system that involves digital signage as authentication and security process when the user making transactions in borrowing a bike. But the price of these devices is very expensive in installation. This paper discusses the design and implementation of bike sharing systems (BSS) that use simple digital signage technology. It is consist of Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) as main displays and Near Field Communication (NFC) interaction modules which are separately developed. The NFC module serves as a reader, and the LCD is used as a user interface for some functions, including i) registration process, ii) renting the bikes, iii) returning the bikes, iv) top-up balances and several another information. Based on the results of the functionality test, the developed system can work well. It is expected that the system can be applied massively in order to be enjoyed by communities in other Indonesian cities because our proposed prototype offers more affordable price. Then the scenarios in implementing our proposed BSS also discussed detail in this paper.