Theoo smart lock dystocia new regulations require mandatory installation of GPS

HC Security Network News shared bicycle has quickly formed an industry, public information, the current market share already exist dozens of bicycle companies, including industry leader worship and Mount ofo developed rapidly, covering a number of cities nationwide. Among them, Mobike bicycles have entered 50 cities at home and abroad. Among them, the number of bicycles in the five cities of Beishang, Guangzhou and Shenzhen is more than 100,000, making it the world's largest intelligent shared bicycle platform.

According to the “2017 China Shared Bicycle Industry Research Report” recently released by the third-party market research institute iResearch, the weekly active user (WAU) of Mobike has reached 77.6 million this week from February 20 to 26 this year. People, the industry's second-ranked ofo shared bicycles (3.691 million) more than 4 million people, the industry leadership is solid.

According to reports, the Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Quality Supervision organized the bicycle industry association of the city, and the bicycle industry association of the main bicycles in the United Nations shared the "Standard for Shared Bicycle Service", "Technical Conditions for Sharing Bicycles, Part 1: Bicycles". Part 2: Electric Bicycles and other series of standards for the drafting of comments, recently began to solicit opinions.

The newly completed standard places requirements on special parts for shared bicycles, including locks, solid tires, and integral wheels. It is worth mentioning that the shared bicycle must have satellite positioning (GPS) and Internet operation functions, so that operators can observe the sharing bicycle operation and improve the service quality.

According to experts from the Bicycle Association, although the use of GPS will increase some design and manufacturing costs, in the long run, the use of high-tech means such as GPS is more conducive to obtaining accurate positioning of vehicles, which is conducive to operators and the community to solve the problem of parking.

It is understood that as the world's largest shared bicycle platform, each bicycle in Mobai is equipped with a smart lock with a positioning system, and the user can also view the specific location of the nearby Moby bicycle through the app. In addition, Mobike's comprehensive use of the Internet of Things, cloud computing and big data technology enables real-time and efficient management of bicycles and trips, while improving management efficiency, and fundamentally ensuring riding safety and user experience. This kind of strong technical strength is not valid for any other shared bicycle platform.

However, ino shared bicycles, most of which are mechanical locks without built-in GPS positioning system. Because the vehicle uses mechanical locks, the 4-digit password will never change. The mechanical lock has a high success rate of unlocking, but it is also easy to crack. Track the shortcomings of the specific location of the bicycle.

At the same time, ofo also understands its weaknesses. Since last year, it has been announcing the development of smart locks and the introduction of smart locks. However, it has not been seen on the market. Due to weak technical strength and lack of patents, theo smart locks are difficult to produce. In addition, in March, it announced a cooperation with China Telecom and Huawei. The three parties will jointly develop a shared bicycle intelligent solution based on the next-generation Internet of Things NB-loT technology. At present, it seems that the thunder and rain are small.

As the saying goes, "I still need to be hard on the iron." It seems that the future of ofo will probably be in dire straits.

Editor in charge: Liu Wenjuan