Development and Implementation of Solar-Assisted Electric Bicycle with GPS Tracking Service over Cloud

Urban air pollution due to vehicular emissions is now a major threat to the public's health. To address this problem, this paper proposes a design of solar-assisted electric bicycle with GPS tracking service over cloud. Our contribution in this work is twofold. Firstly, our design avoids costly customized devices and adopts commodity electronics and mechanical parts. Secondly, we have actually implemented a prototype of our design as proof of concept. We have also built a cloud-enabled prototype of the GPS tracker and mounted it on the bicycle so that the public can locate the bicycle's GPS coordinates through the accompanied smartphone APP.