Open AccessUniCycle: An Android Application of Bike Sharing System in the Digital Campus
Author(s) -
Ku Nurul Fazira Ku Azir,
M. N. Junita,
E. Y. N. Loke,
M. F. Zul,
M. A. A. Roszaki,
Nizar Zakaria,
J. A. Abdalla
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of physics. conference series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1742-6596
pISSN - 1742-6588
DOI - 10.1088/1742-6596/1755/1/012010
Subject(s) - dock , renting , android (operating system) , payment , internet of things , service (business) , transport engineering , computer science , computer security , engineering , world wide web , business , civil engineering , marine engineering , operating system , marketing
Bike Sharing System (BSS) has been on a rapid rise to provide healthy lifestyle and a sustainable environment to the world. However, the concept of BSS has a multiple flaws such as in managing of bike’s usage and maintenance. BSS that is currently used in Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP) is based on rental concept which reduces time efficiency and is inconvenient to users due to its lack of maintenance management. Thus, this work has been innovated to monitor the bike’s maintenance by designing the concept of dock free system and design of mobile application to monitor bike’s usage, payment and location of the bike based on Internet of Thing (IoT) platform. UniCycle provides services that are useful as neither there will be wastage nor shortage of parking dock. The dock free system provides a service where users need not worry about finding the parking dock and they can place the bicycle at anywhere and anytime within the campus’ compound. Therefore, UniCycle provides dock-free smart bike sharing services which is a more convenient alternative to students to navigate around the campus. Furthermore, the maintenance team can also monitor the condition of the bicycles.