Citation

Shen S, Wei ZQ, Sun LJ, Su YQ, Wang RC, Jiang HM. Sensors (Basel) 2018; 18(8): s18082581.

Affiliation

School of Internet of things, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing 210003, China. 1217073911@njupt.edu.cn.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, MDPI: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute)

DOI

10.3390/s18082581

PMID

30087263

Abstract

With the expansion of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) in smart cities, the shared bicycle has developed quickly as a new green public transportation mode, and is changing the travel habits of citizens heavily across the world, especially in China. The purpose of the current paper is to provide an inclusive review and survey on shared bicycle besides its benefits, history, brands and comparisons. In addition, it proposes the concept of the Internet of Shared Bicycle (IoSB) for the first time, as far as we know, to find a feasible solution for those technical problems of the shared bicycle. The possible architecture of IoSB in our opinion is presented, as well as most of key IoT technologies, and their capabilities to merge into and apply to the different parts of IoSB are introduced. Meanwhile, some challenges and barriers to IoSB's implementation are expressed thoroughly too. As far as the advice for overcoming those barriers be concerned, the IoSB's potential aspects and applications in smart city with respect to technology development in the future provide another valuable further discussion in this paper.

Language: en

Keywords

Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS); Internet of Shared Bicycle (IoSB); Internet of Things (IoT); Wireless Sensor Network (WSN); shared bicycle; smart city