Importance

This project is important because unlocking a bike is complicated and could get even more complicated for people with disabilities or of older age. Attaching a lock around a bicycle rack and then securing it in order keep the bicycle safe, and later having to turn a key or enter a passcode and unwrap the lock to be able to go home may prove much more difficult than one might imagine. Another issue for people going to work, school, or anything else on a bicycle is the time it takes to lock and unlock it. The time might seem minimal, but anything done in a hurry takes much longer than expected and necessary (Risk Assessment Management & Prevention, 2019). With this information, when someone is in a hurry and running late, the already complicated process of locking a bicycle becomes much longer and much more difficult to execute. This proves the significance of an autonomous bicycle lock and how it would help any bicycle rider. This project proposes an autonomous electrical bicycle lock which is directly connected to the bicycle and would lock and unlock a bicycle for the rider using and Arduino UNO, RFID, motors, and a solenoid, by at the same time being much easier to transport.

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