Tandem public bicycle rental system and method thereof

Abstract

A series public bike rental system, in which each bike is designed into a subsystem capable of working independently. Provided is a novel public bike rental system, in which even if a bike breaks down, other bikes can still work normally; and a temporary lock mechanism is also achieved, with which conventional lock cylinders and keys are no longer needed. The system comprises a background central management server, in-site central control cabinet control systems, public bikes provide at multiple sites of the rental system, and user cards of the rental system. Each bike is designed into a subsystem capable of working independently; the bikes are connected in series in an interlocking mode to form a queue; the subsystem is connected to the central control cabinet control system within the site by means of wireless communications; the subsystem is a bike-mounted control system and is capable of controlling opening of a bike lock. According to the system, a bike can be rented once available, thereby resolving the transfer problem of standby bikes, and the unitization rate of public bikes is improved.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to a public bicycle rental management system. [0002] technical background [0003] The disadvantages of the existing one-pile-one-vehicle bicycle rental system are very obvious: [0004] (1) The construction cost is high, and the station vehicle needs to be equipped with a much more expensive pile than a bicycle for its parking. [0005] (2) Poor travel peak capacity: During the morning rush hour, at the starting point of travel (such as the entrance of the community), all the bicycles on the piles will be rented away, but a string of bicycles that cannot be rented will be locked on the iron chain next to them. But at the end point of travel (such as an office building business district), the piles are full of bicycles, and there is nowhere to return them. In the evening peak, the situation is reversed. [0006] (3) Now to solve the above-mentioned problems faced during peak travel times, we can only rely on dispatchers. The l...

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Problems solved by technology

[0004] (1) The construction cost is high, and the station vehicles need to be equipped with a pile that is much more expensive than bicycles for parking

[0005] (2) Poor carrying capacity during travel peak hours: During the morning rush hour, all the bicycles on the piles will be rented away at the starting point of travel (such as the gate of the community), but a string of bicycles that cannot be rented will be locked on the iron chain next to it.

[0006] (3) To solve the above-mentioned problems during peak travel times, we can only rely on dispatchers. The labor cost is high, but the efficiency is not high. In the morning and evening peak hours, a dispatcher is even required to be on duty at the large site to ensure the normal operation of the site.

[0007] (4) Temporary lock keys are easy to lose

[0009] (1) Unable to solve the problem of temporary bicycle locks: the patented solution cannot detect whether the user locks the temporary lock and takes away the key after returning the bicycle, and it is also difficult to prevent someone from maliciously locking the bicycle on the site with the temporary lock and removing the key

Therefore, it is difficult to install a temporary lock on the car, otherwise, when the user comes to rent a car, it will be found that the rented bicycle is locked by a temporary lock and cannot be used.

Therefore, in this scheme, the user must return the car to other sites after renting the car, and cannot temporarily park and temporarily lock it at his ideal destination.

This will greatly limit the versatility of public bicycles, and the user experience is not good

[0010] (2) There are obvious loopholes in the way of cable transmission data: in this patent solution, all data is transmitted through the cable in the lock chain, once one of the bicycles in series fails, the entire chain of bicycles will be paralyzed and cannot be rented back , the bike at the end cannot be delivered because of a data outage

If a small site has only one string of bikes, the entire site will be paralyzed

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