Pro Velo tested ShareABike with Noké smart locks but found the hardware was incompatible with their bike-sharing requirement. ShareABike by Pro Velo sought a specific lock for bikes that would fit on their fleet of bikes and would integrate with their existing mobile application and administration software.
Find out how LINKA Fleets' SDK integration and Original LINKA Bike Lock helped ShareABike by Pro Velo launch across private corporate campuses, leading to further growth opportunities in public bike sharing.
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Belgium | < 50 |
Original LINKA Lock and integration to the ShareABike app with LINKA’s SDK. |
ShareABike is a publicly funded bike-sharing project, created by the Universities of Mons and Namur between 2014 and 2020. The ShareABike bike-share platform offers a complete software solution with an administrative interface and ShareABike mobile bike rental app. The ShareABike concept and app encourage members of the ShareABike community to rent bikes wherever ShareABike is available.
In 2021, Pro Velo acquired the operating license to launch ShareABike across business centers, private corporate campuses, and will soon launch the first public bike share for a small town, Hannut, near Liège.
Pro Velo tested ShareABike with Noké smart locks but found the hardware was incompatible with their bike-sharing requirement. ShareABike by Pro Velo sought a specific lock for bikes that would fit on their fleet of bikes and would integrate with their existing mobile application and administration software.
ShareABike integrated Original LINKA Smart Bike Lock with LINKA’s SDK integration
Pro Velo launched their ShareABike bike share with Original LINKA and LINKA Chains using LINKA’s SDK integration. The simple SDK integration successfully enabled ShareABike’s mobile app to operate Original LINKA’s lock/unlock functionality with one tap, once the bike was rented.
Original LINKA Bike Lock and LINKA Chains provide a simple, fully integrated locking process to ShareABike by Pro Velo’s bike rental platform.
Original LINKA Bike Lock secures parked bikes tethered to a fixed terminal with LINKA Chains.
LINKA contributed to the success of the ShareABike by Pro Velo project. The first successful pilot has led to a growing number of opportunities to expand ShareABike’s presence with a small town public bike share next in the implementation phase.
The Original LINKA, chain sold separately.
During the global pandemic, Anadolu Açıkhava Reklamcılık (AAR) faced the challenge of procuring bicycles and robust smart bike locks that would be compatible with their existing docking stations, without sacrificing security, city regulation compliance, and functionality. Eliminating the need to build new docking stations would significantly lower infrastructure costs.
Find out how LINKA Fleets enabled AAR to double Konya's bike share usage.
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Turkey | 500+ |
LEO 2 Pro - wired, powered by the LINKA Solar Panel, and tethered to an existing docking station with TetherSense©, integrated with a white label app for public city bike-sharing. |
In 2014, the city of Konya introduced the ‘Konya Transportation Master Plan (KONUAP 2030)’ to encourage sustainable urban mobility. Since then, Konya’s urban transportation has transformed under the guidance of its Bicycle Master Plan, increasing efficiency and reducing carbon footprint.
AAR deployed public bike-sharing with LINKA Fleets in Konya, one of Turkey’s most bicycle-friendly cities.
One of the most bicycle-friendly cities in the country, Konya boasts a 550-kilometer (341.7-mile) network of bicycle lanes with plans to increase to 780-kilometers (484.7 miles) by 2030. As the city ramps up its public bike-sharing program, it is critical to encourage bicycle usage.
During the global pandemic, Anadolu Açıkhava Reklamcılık (AAR) faced the challenge of procuring bicycles and robust smart bike locks that would be compatible with their existing docking stations, without sacrificing security, city regulation compliance, and functionality. Eliminating the need to build new docking stations would significantly lower infrastructure costs.
AAR deployed LEO 2 Pro - wired, powered by LINKA’s Solar Panels and tethered to the city’s existing docking stations with TetherSense©. After an initial pilot in December 2020, with a custom-designed white label app, the city approved the expansion of the security solution growing the fleet to 1000+ by the end of 2021.
AAR secures public bike share with LEO 2 Pro - wired, LINKA Solar Panel, TetherSense© and White Label app.
The white-label app has enabled quick and easy adoption of users, especially for AAR’s target users, Gen Z. The complete LINKA Fleets platform has provided essential real-time analytics to monitor their fleet, track performance, and maintain their bikes using a single platform.
After one month of switching over to LINKA Fleets, Konya’s public bike-sharing usage increased 2x. Access to data insights from the FleetView™ dashboard provides crucial information to manage and optimize the public bike-sharing program.
How LINKA Fleets can improve your public bike-sharing experience
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Sweden | 40-100 |
LINKA’s Bluetooth enabled, keyless smart bike lock, Original LINKA, integrated with their own app using the LINKA SDK. |
GoRide developed their own bike sharing app to manage private bike shares for offices and residential spaces. The GoRide app allows a user to book a bike in advance and ride the bike to meetings, or for parents to pick up their kids from childcare. GoRide customers rely on their bikes for daily transport and there was zero tolerance for failure. But, GoRide was missing a dependable and secure locking solution for their fleet of bikes that could provide the best user experience for their customers, maximum reliability and low operational maintenance.
GoRide began development with NOKE U-Lock but unfortunately, the lock never materialized, leaving GoRide to search for an alternative, reliable bicycle lock solution for their pool of bikes.
GoRide began testing with the Original LINKA Fleet Test Kit. Impressed by the reliability and performance of the locking hardware, using the LINKA Fleets’ SDK, GoRide were able to quickly and easily integrate LINKA Fleets’ bike lock and fleet management solution with their own bike sharing app.
LINKA Fleets has helped GoRide to deploy 80+ bikes, secured with Original LINKA, in multiple locations across Sweden. GoRide needed a low maintenance, high-performing bike lock. With LINKA’s durable bike lock, built-in long-life battery and fleet management tools, FleetView and Operator App, GoRide maintains lower operational costs and increased efficiency with a low maintenance frequency of 6 months.