Because factory companies don't give components serial numbers, enabling cyclists to put unique IDs on their own components could help the recovery of stolen bike parts! In a user-created-content forum/database key data can be entered to catalogue a user's parts (and a batch of parts). A serial number will then be assigned to the component and the user can a) engrave the information on the part, or b) the system can send the user a set of serial ID stickers (with RFID implants?) to stick in discrete areas on the component.
A tracking system for bikes using RFID stickers is outlined in this sketch/scenario:
2 comments:
Hope this goes through. What a cool use for rfid/s! I had been thinking, after reading your posts last week about micro-tagging or something similar that I think was offered up for laptops and other small, portable electro-bling.
The national bike registry was around in the late 80s; locally, we never saw any interest in it.
Wasn't aware that bikes are a street currency [location X 3, I guess].
Are there lasers available on the consumer level [or even to shops] to etch parts? Would ya have to develop a system of coding? And then a national database?
Good luck
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