Example of quick add-on to card program
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville launched a pilot bike sharing system where users swipe their university ID card to check out and return bikes around campus.
The pilot system includes two bike-sharing stations, each with ten bikes–seven electric bicycles and three standard bicycles.
Often this type of system would have real time, or at least regularly updated, communication with the campus card system. But the UT project simply uses the student ID number off the mag-stripe and checks it against a database stored locally at the sharing station, says Christopher Cherry, assistant professor at the university.
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Why electric bikes ? Is it a large place ? Everything so far ? Normal bikes makes you healther