Thursday, August 6, 2015

The return of the bicycle thieves: we defend well – Reuters

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The return of the bicycle thieves: we defend well

The projects range from the tax code on the frame up to the sensors with GPS

The Italians have discovered the joys of cycling but the risk is increasingly common to see it vanish

A pedals, but not naive. Ecological, but technological. And most of all tired of seeing take away the bike. They will be growing in number every year, and not a little, but the Italian cyclists are changing. Call for more safety on the road and the wheels still. They wish not to park every time with Mago, like a farewell. And maybe not having to turn back with a steel mill, to try to avoid what then – too often – on time is done. Why against theft of two wheels a permanent solution there. But we are going closer and closer, thanks to simple but effective ideas.

Here punching

“This is not a day goes by without a new case. And never mind that they went to steal even under the windows of the mayor. ” Luigi Altamura, commander of the municipal police of Verona, is one of those that the theft of a bike has not really want to give up. And along with Fiab he is ready to launch a novelty not bad: the punching. Every citizen who buys a bike, if he wants, can make us affect your tax code and make it unmistakably his. “It is important – says the commander – because we have retrieved dozens of bikes that we can not return. We were posting on our site photos of bikes found, but often it appeared someone who was not the true owner, or without a complaint in hand. And so we had to stop the service. ”

The notice of the City will be published shortly, and then we will start. Combining Verona to Padua and a few other centers where a few months ago are having the same system. “Here we passed through overzealous – Altamura said – when in 2009 multammo a cyclist who spoke to the phone. But with this initiative we have been reconciled with the Friends of the bicycle. Tests have already been made. And we want to start as soon as possible. Complaints are unfortunately declining, but no theft. The bikes are used as a bargaining chip, sometimes bartered with drugs or even with the copper. ”

Useful deterrent

The new system is not only designed to facilitate operations in the event of a stolen bike and found. For that already now the golden rule is to customize the frame, take a photo in the cell and in the fatal case immediately make complaint. Brigade just this, as a rule. But the code also serves to deter thieves, because a bike with beautiful views in a plaque branded becomes much less attractive. To confirm it is Juliet Clown, national president of Fiab. It responds – as consistency want – in a park of his ciclogiro in the Netherlands. “Today this is the simplest and most immediate. It is proposed microchip or more technological systems, perhaps valid, but requiring a database created from scratch. Instead it provides a social security number ready. Today I have seen a punch of this kind here in Amsterdam, where this activity has a social impact and involves people at risk of exclusion. ‘

The satellite

The technology, in fact, has already started to offer its solutions to the fateful question. For some time many municipalities use Facebook and websites to display pictures of the bike found: a useful service, but with the above problems. The site RuBBici.it proposes a kind of national bulletin board – almost a social network – where to report theft, recoveries, even bike suspicious, leave somewhere and smell of theft. And yet there RegisterBike, Palermo idea that proposes a set of 19 labels, including serial codes and QR code, to be applied everywhere on the bike. With the app connected, the codes are associated with first and last name and that’s it: the bike has a legitimate registered owner.

But the ultimate struggle to ciclocriminali, the dream of every pedalatore jealous of his horse remains one: catch the thief immediately, before it went on the run. At this serves Lock8, special lock Berlin able to send an SMS – the phone owner – every time it is forced. But this will especially Sherlock, the first anti-theft satellite bike, he’s working on a startup of Turin. Even here with enviable consistency, the creator of the project is called Pierluigi Brakes. “The operation is simple – he says – and with the GPS bike will always be traceable. In case of theft, of course, the idea is not to do yourself, but lean to the police. In fact, in September we will start the test, in collaboration with the City of Turin and the municipal police. Then in early 2016 we will campaign on Kickstarter, to start financing the production. Costs? For now I prefer not to say anything because we are working to lower them. And we are also thinking of a subscription service, like Spotify and the like. It might work especially in northern Europe, where there are already more accustomed us to this model. ”

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