Inspiration
Bikey story's:
One day, a neighbor's bike was stolen, which cost about three thousand euros, and after about six months, this theft happened again!
This situation caught my attention, so I decided to research more bike thefts in Germany, and here was the shocking surprise !
According to data from the German Insurance Association (GDV), around 155,000 insured bicycles were stolen throughout Germany in 2019. Compared to 2018, the number of thefts of insured bicycles thus decreased by around 5,000.
In contrast to the GDV data, the police crime statistics also record the reported theft of uninsured bicycles. The total number of stolen bicycles in 2019 was approximately 278,000. Although this figure represents a decrease of about five percent compared to the previous year, nevertheless, an average of 32 bicycles are (officially) stolen every hour in Germany.
Since bicycle thefts, especially of older and uninsured bikes, are often not reported to the police, the number of unreported cases is certainly much higher. Criminal statisticians assume that about twice the number of officially recorded thefts are stolen. Thus: approx. 600,000 bicycles are stolen from their owners every year in Germany.
Hence, I decided to search for a solution that somehow tries to provide some services that reduce the process of bike theft or at least reduce it, and as a result I developed Bikey.
What it does
Brief explanation of Bikey app, it is a safe store where the user can sell or buy used bikes or bikes spare parts, also, in the case of his bike being stolen, the user can inform other users that his bike was stolen, so that the rest of the users can report the police or inform the bike owner if one of the users sees it, or at least beware of buying this bike.
Bikey will also provide a tracking device placed in a hidden place on the bike, through which it is possible to know the location of the bike in case it is stolen.
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