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Of course, just turning up and finding that your local
station has no bikes could prove problematical in terms of getting to
work on time. Which is why PBS bikes are Internet friendly. Using
wireless communication the base stations know how many bikes are
connected and reports this back to a central management system.
Commuters can connect to the PBS locator site
using their smart phone and see exactly what bikes are available where,
right now. For the managers of PBS the technology is so advanced that
it means they can even see the functional state of repair of each bike,
how the solar panels are doing and so on.
Commuters are able to report, from the docking unit, if a bike gets
damaged so the system is always updated in real time. The management
software itself will even monitor traffic patterns to enable PBS to
relocate units to different areas of town on demand.
A similar system has been a great success in Paris, and if the Montreal
one goes as well this could be just the start of a solar powered, web
located, RFID driven bicycle revolution.
David Bass
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