New architecture for electric bikes control based on smartphones and wireless sensors

Abstract

During the last years, great advances has been produced in the automotive industry, a strategic sector both nationally and internationally with a high socioeconomic impact. Many efforts have focused on providing smart environments to the final user in vehicles such as cars, capable of detecting contextual vehicle’s conditions and adapting automatically to the user needs. This paper proposes an innovative solution in the automotive field consisting of a new product family which allows the transformation of a traditional bicycle to an electric bicycle by an architecture that provides the user intelligent adaptive environments and significantly improve the driving experience design enabling value-added services.