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LEDConnect

LEDConnect

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Thomas Pilaet

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The challenge 

The Netherlands is the country of bicycles. Its infrastructure has been highly tailored toward them. Nevertheless, a big part of road accidents still involve bicycles. Cyclists are vulnerable. Especially during the evening and night they can suddenly emerge out of the dark, because it is easy to overlook them. This only increases, because many cyclists do not have or use a bicycle light. It is therefore necessary that cyclists are put in the light. Their visibility needs to increase as to decrease their vulnerability and involvement in road accidents.

The solution

The LEDConnect project aims to increase the visibility of cyclists through a simple solution. By connecting a bicycle light with the streetlights in a city. This connection is fully anonymous. Through this connection the street lighting can adapt its brightness in real time when one or more cyclists ride by. Moreover, major cycling patterns can be analyzed both day and night. By doing so the city's infrastructure can be improved when flaws emerge. The bicycle light itself would be easy and cheap to produce. Setting a low bar for buying the product.

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