Adam Kos Mobile phones can replace not only wallets, but of course also keys, and have been doing so for a long time. These are keys to rentals, subleases, apartments, cars and smart locks. One such is the LAAS Keyless O-Lock, which aims to protect your bicycle.
It's easy to imagine that we leave our wallet and keys at home, but how do we secure our bicycle if we have a lock, but no longer a key? This is exactly what he is trying to solve LAAS Keyless O-Lock. The idea is nice and simple, but it has one major problem for us.
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Assembly is as simple as the mechanism itself. You attach the lock to the frame near the rear wheel, ideally with the help of screws directly into the frame. But if he doesn't have them, you can also use flexible straps. Those will hold the lock when it is not locked, and if someone tries to dismantle it afterwards, it will still fail even if they remove it from the frame.
It could be interest you
You lock it manually, you unlock it through the app (the original one is through a QR code), so of course you need to have a charged phone, otherwise you won't be able to drive much. The whole process takes no more than 3 seconds, so it's even faster than manual locks. The advantage is that you can share access to the lock with other household members or friends without handing them the physical lock. A CR123 battery is then used in the lock.
There's only one problem with all of this
Maybe I'm thinking stupidly because the project had a goal of raising just over $5k and at the time of writing it has almost $30k in its account so it's a success. However, if we usually focus on unusual and clever solutions, here it may be a little different. There are already a lot of smart locks available, and this one scores with how minimalistic and rigidly connected it is, but because of that you can't attach it to a bike stand or anything else where you "park" your bike and only lock its rear wheel.
This means that you will ensure that no one drives off with it, but you will not ensure that someone does not throw it on the roof of the car and remove the lock at home with a hacksaw (or straight flex). But maybe the Czech Republic is still somewhere other than Denmark, where this product was created, and here you will still carry various chains with you to connect the lock to some fixed object. There are still 30 days left until the end of the project, so it is obvious that the implementation will eventually happen. Base price is 87 dollars, which is a 40% discount compared to the full price, and in conversion it is a little over two thousand CZK. Delivery should start in February of next year, so if you are interested in the idea, you will have time to leave the castle for the whole of next season.
Kolostav? Why not a bike rack?
"The whole process takes no more than 3 seconds, so it's even faster than manual locks."
I dare to say that the whole process definitely takes more than 5 seconds, and secondly that even if it's only 3 seconds, it's still more than a commonly used code lock.
By the way - being an author, I would read my creation after myself before submitting, and correct the glaring "smart lock" and "more how".