How It Works
Social Cyclists find and unlock bikes using their mobile phones, or unlock them by entering their account information directly into the keypad on the lockbox.
A central server verifies each unlock request and sends your pincode to the bicycle for confirmation on the keypad. Once the correct pincode is entered, the lock is disengaged and the server tracks the location of the bike.
When you are finished riding, slide the u-bar into the lock, and the bike notifies the server that the transaction is over and the bike is available.
Easy to Manage
Redistribution of the bikes will mostly be handled by the users themselves through a dynamic incentive system. Operators can select the system zone and hub locations and set these boundaries in our database. When a user locks the bike outside of a hub location, they are charged a fee. This fee is posted to the map and the next person to take the bike and return it to a hub receives a credit. This ensures that bikes are consistently returned to hubs, but allows the flexibility to bike directly to any destination within the system area. However, if someone locks up outside the system zone, they would be charged a larger recovery fee for taking the bike too far from the system core.
