Being the top e-scooter app development company, today, we will put forth the blog containing the working of the e-scooter app, how it communicates with e-scooter hardware and types of different e-scooter hardware available in the market. 

The working of the e-scooter app 

An e-scooter mobile app (software) and e-scooter hardware are two major things involved in the e-scooter sharing business. 

Both of these things depend heavily on each other. They communicate with each other and satisfy every request of the users and admin. If any of these experiences the error, requests of admin and users can’t be satisfied. 

The e-scooter app consists of two different parts. One is the frontend and another is the backend. 

The frontend of the e-scooter app offers a way to view and interact with the mobile app. It exhibits all information like GPS coordinates of the e-scooter, battery percentage, speed and direction to the users and admin. 

And the backend of the e-scooter mobile app stores the data and processes the commands, given by users through the frontend.

Frontend and the backend of the e-scooter app are interconnected. However, the backend of the e-scooter app has to establish a connection with the e-scooter hardware in order to fetch the information of the e-scooter and give commands to it.

So, now let’s understand what makes e-scooter hardware smart enough to send information to the e-scooter software, understand the commands given by the e-scooter software and act on it. 

What makes e-scooter hardware smart?  

E-scooter hardware should establish a connection with the backend of the e-scooter app to receive the commands and send information about its current state to the e-scooter app.  

The IoT controller fitted in the e-scooter hardware allows it to establish a connection with the e-scooter app. This controller is constantly communicating with the backend of the e-scooter app and shares the following information. 

• Location of the e-scooter 
• Battery percentage 
• Speed and direction 
• Alerts 

Not only this, but the IoT controller also receives the commands from the backend of the e-scooter app and the smart mini computer of the IoT controller interprets it. The following are the commands IoT controller of the e-scooter receives. 

• Lock / unlock 
• Beep 
• Set speed 
• Change settings – to modify the frequency of pings and other settings

Here it is worth mentioning that the backend of the e-scooter app which is already networked with the frontend of the e-scooter app and e-scooter hardware is also well-connected with the admin panel. Meaning, you as the admin can keep an eagle eye on every connected e-scooter, its current state, and user activities. 

Now, if you are wondering how IoT controllers establish the connection with the e-scooter app, let’s discuss it quickly. 

How does an IoT controller establish a connection with an e-scooter app?

Every IoT controller comes with the built-in SIM card which has the cell data capability. Thanks to this SIM, the IoT controller sends and receives messages over the internet. 

E-scooter manufacturers like Segway and Acton sell e-scooter hardware with SIM inside. Whereas, many manufacturers sell e-scooters without SIM. In such a case, you have to purchase your own SIM card. 

Vodafone and Twilio are two good options. These are the popular international carriers with service across the globe. 

 Data consumption:

Data consumption depends on the state of the e-scooter. When the e-scooter is unlocked, it consumes more data as it sends more information to the backend of the e-scooter. 

According to a calculation, you will need 1-20 MB of data each month for each e-scooter which should be less than $5 /vehicle/month. 

Here, we should not neglect the fact that when two devices communicate over the internet, the protocol comes into the picture. And when it comes to IoT projects, MQTT is the most commonly used protocol. 

How does an IoT controller share data with an e-scooter app over the internet? 

MQTT protocol is used to share data between the e-scooter app and e-scooter hardware (IoT controller). It works on a publish-subscribe model. 

Since it works on the publish-subscribe model, it only allows a device to send data to another device if it is a subscriber of that device.

However, two devices do not communicate directly. A central MQTT broker connects with all devices and acts as a post office between all devices. This broker makes sure that every subscribed device gets the correct message from the relevant device only.

How much does it cost to build an e-scooter app and what are the services we provide beyond app development? 

Coruscate has already conquered the micro-mobility app development industry with its 100+ app developers, app designers, IoT experts, business experts, and legal advisers. 

Our app developers, app designers, and IoT engineers actualize one of the best e-scooter apps with all futuristic and disruptive features.

With our additional services, our business experts and legal advisers help micro-mobility startups to make their business journey painless. Our additional services include a market study, e-scooter hardware selection, business plan drafting, business model crafting, and consultation to acquire the permit and satisfy other legal norms. 

The cost to build an e-scooter app depends on the app development approach you choose. 

• To develop a custom e-scooter app with all custom features, we charge somewhere between $15000 to $25000. 
• The price to develop the clone version of some popular e-scooter app starts from $10000. 
• And our subscription plan for the white label e-scooter app starts from just $500. 

To know more about our pricing structures and get the personalized quote, please feel free to contact us. Our one of the senior business experts will welcome you with the free e-scooter app demo and free consultation. 

Bonus Learning: 

You can buy e-scooters which do not come with the built-in IoT controller. Such e-scooters cost really less than the smart e-scooters. But here, you have to buy IoT controllers and install them separately on each e-scooter. However, this is not a recommended practice, considering the compatibility issues. 

To know the best e-scooter you can buy under $500 and $1000, you can read our dedicated blog.

Note: We do not make clones of any exact application, clone means to us is how better we can execute your app idea with existing app features and experience.

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In the last few years,  thanks to government regulations, advanced technology and individual efforts, the internet has got many layers of security. However, anything connected to the internet is still having many loopholes which work as the ‘door of the heaven’ for hackers. Many companies are being the victim of IoT security breach which costs them millions of dollars. And almost 96% of security experts are anticipating to double similar cases in 2020.

Thus, IoT device security becomes very fundamental requirements for IoT device manufacturers and businesses such as e-scooter rental business and automatic smart taxi businesses which are having IoT devices in the heart of the business model.

IoT security challenges 

After aggressively studying the recent IoT security breach cases, security experts have made themselves and IoT device manufacturers aware of the challenges which prevent securing of IoT devices and ensuring end-to-end security in an IoT environment.

Because the idea of a connected device is relatively new, IoT device manufacturers and IoT app development companies generally give cold shoulder to IoT device security measures. Additionally, since IoT is the growing market, manufacturers and other companies are more interested to get their IoT devices in the market quickly rather than bringing the innovation in it in terms of the security.

‘Default password’ has already been cited as the major issue of the IoT devices by many well-versed security experts. And if passwords are changed, the majority of passwords are very common. According to a password management security company, SplashData, nearly 10% of people have used one of the 25 worst passwords.

Moreover, many IoT devices are often resource-constrained and lacking the core resources to offer high security. For instance, a sensor which is used to monitor speed does not support advanced encryption.

API security also plays a significant role to defend the integrity of data transferring between IoT devices and backend software infrastructure. Not only this, but a machine to machine authentication — where there is not at all or very less involvement of the human — also makes IoT devices less secure.

A few notable IoT security breaches of the history

Cybersecurity companies, IoT device manufacturers and IoT app development companies have not yet fully decoded those challenges and so, IoT security breach is still the very common phenomena.

In 2010, Iranian centrifuges became the first victim of the IoT security breach when the Stuxnet virus was used to physically damage the centrifuges.

In December 2013, a security firm found the first IoT botnet which is the group of hacked IoT devices, co-opted for illegal activities.

In 2015, security researchers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek executed a wireless attack on the Jeep. They changed the radio station on car’s media centre, turned on its wipers and air conditioner,  killed the engine and disabled the brakes.

In 2019, a hacker hacked the baby monitor camera!

IoT security measures (For e-scooter app)

 
After reading so far, you must have found yourself in the highest state of awareness which makes you conscious of the fact that you should put forth a few security measures to not end up developing a poorly protected IoT device and IoT software infrastructure and not suffer a severe financial loss.

Following are the most common yet very effective IoT security measures to not give a playground to hackers to play!

 
» Credentials:

An IoT app developer should add a module in the app which asks users to change the default credentials with a strong password or multi-factor authentication or even biometrics. In the case of the e-scooter rental business, the operator should ask e-scooter app development company to add the module in the admin panel from where the operator can change the passwords of all e-scooters.

» Public Key Infrastructure and X.509 Digital Certificate:

The PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) and X.509 Digital Certificate are the most vital measures to develop a secure IoT device and IoT app. A PKI enables users and system to securely share the data and X.509 digital certificate is the widely accepted PKI standard in order to verify whether a public key belongs to the user or not.

» API security

An API (Application Programming Interface) is the easiest way for a hacker to enter into the system and infect it. Thus, it is essential to test the API security. API security testing ensures that API is safe and only authorized devices and app communicates with that API.

» Identity management

An IoT manufacturer should give a unique identifier to each device to identify each device and understand the device behaviours and its interaction with other devices. The app development company should sync data coming from each IoT device with its identification number and let admin show it in the admin panel.

» Hardware security

Considering the fact that an IoT device is equipped with an IoT controller which controls the device, one should never fit the IoT controller in IoT device within easy reach. An IoT device should always be tamper-proof!

» Network security

IoT devices communicate with each other and with the mobile app over the network. Meaning, you should protect the IoT network. In order to protect the network, your hired app development company and IoT manufacturer should:

• Ensure port-security
• Disable port forwarding
• Never open ports when not needed
• Use antimalware
• Deploy the intrusion detection system
• Block unauthorized IP addresses

» Software updates 

It is very critical to keep the backend of the IoT app as well as software of the IoT controller up to date. Your hired IoT app development company is responsible for upgrading the backend of the IoT app with the latest security measures and technology and it’s IoT device manufacturer’s call to upgrade and update the IoT controller of the IoT device.

» Security gateways

IoT devices have very less processing power, memory and capabilities to implement features such as firewalls. Thus, security gateways are used. A security gateway basically works as an intermediary between the IoT device and the network.  It also has more processing power, memory and capabilities to implement any kind of features.

In the nutshell:

 
IoT is one of the groundbreaking technologies which has changed the way humans interact with the machines. Considering its advantages, all industries from mining to tourism to mobility have adopted the IoT. And it is anticipated that industries which have adopted the IoT will witness the massive growth in the sales and efficiency in upcoming years.

However, IoT security limitation is preventing IoT devices from offering 3 million benefits. The IoT security measures we have discussed in this blog are proven and capable of creating a safe IoT environment.

Coruscate which is the top e-scooter app development company employs all these IoT security features to develop an unhackable e-scooter app as well as other IoT apps. Our IoT engineers and app developers keep themselves updated with the latest IoT trends and security measures.

You can contact us to know more about the e-scooter app, IoT features, IoT security measures and cost & time of development. We provide a free consultation and free e-scooter app demo.

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People have been previously using solar-powered calculators and lawn lights in Chicago. Kalyanpur learned about energy and work on a solar charging prototype. He first used solar energy to charge his iPhone and worked on spontaneously to check the usage of solar energy on various other gadgets.

He discovered that there were no developer tools to build a self-charging project. In the hardware projects, the developers could turn to the open-source electronics prototyping platforms. But there were no such platforms available for the solar charging projects. There was nothing that the developers could use to optimize a solar product. He has helped in building such tools.

Kalyanpur attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He became friends with Paul Couston who helped him to manage and invest the university’s $10 million green funds. Both of them dropped out of school to start their now four-person company named Optivolt Labs.

They got the impetus with the entry into the accelerator program Techstars Chicago. They kept gaining momentum since then. Kalyanpur has now received a Thiel Fellowship which is a two-year-long program that includes a $100,000 grant to young people who are interested in building new things. They even received a lot of mentorships and key introductions.

The company has raised a separate $1.75 million round of seed funding from a long list of notable individual investors. The investors include Eventbrite co-founders Kevin & Julia Hartz; TJ Parker, who is the founder and CEO of PillPack which is an Amazon subsidiary. Other investors include Pinterest COO Francoise Brougher: and Jeff Lutz, a former Google SVP.

They are into the promise of a scalable technology stack for solar integration. Though still, nascent Optivolt has now comprehended a way to provide adequate power transfer systems, a solar developer and simulation devices and cloud-based API’s to facilitate fleets of machines to self-charge in ambient light.

The e-scooters will now be charged using solar energy along with the drones, sensors and other devices. The testing of the technology will begin soon and a number of “enterprise fleets” have already signed on to work with Optivolt in pilot programs.

It is a pretty huge opportunity for many e-scooter startups. Some companies have already begun offering smaller solar-powered vehicles. There are probably several outfits that would favor finding a way to retrofit the hardware they already have in the world.

The e-scooters can use their current batteries also. The solar will not just charge the machines or e-scooters in real-time but at the same time will allow them to store some of that energy.

Optivolt’s technology “seamlessly blends into everyday products. So, there is no need to change the product design necessarily. They are excited to see how it works out with the e-scooters running on the streets. Right now, Optivolt’s highest priority is its new round of funding along with hiring more engineering talent.

Swiftmile, a Light electric vehicle charging system company that is beginning the world’s first solar-powered scooter charging platform. The platform will be launching very soon in an important US city with a national scooter operator.

The new platform is just like a gas station for the e-scooters. It allows any operator to use the regular charging stations addressing city gridlock. It can scale to sustain thousands of e-scooters from any dockless scooter company.

Fostering mass adoption

 
Oasis is another company that aims to provide the cities with an eco-friendly, common and modular answer for organizing scooter programs. The company’s new in-field charging program can sustain thousands of e-scooters in need of a charge while encouraging mass confirmation.

As the shared electric scooters and bikes add great new commutation option for cities. But there are problems related to parking and litter. A parking and charging system for these dockless e-scooters is a great answer to all the problems that we are looking for.

Swiftmile’s exclusive charge-management back-end can blend with any third-party scooter app. This allows riders and drivers to easily find charging and parking places for e-scooters. The installation of these charging stations is easy and inexpensive.

The program is proposed with the following:

• Adaptors for every e-scooter makes them compatible with Swiftmile app
• Independent quick charging
• LED lighting for checking easy checking of vehicle availability
• Solar and battery warehouse
• An integrated lock and charging
• Ready-built APIs for back-end mobile app integration
• Lifetime assistance, support, and updates.

Swiftmile’s intends to be just like the gas stations were to the auto industry. They are becoming much important to the fast-growing micro-mobility revolution. They are acting as the peacemakers between the public, cities and scooter operators. They have built the first in-field e-scooter charging system which enables the e-scooters to be parked and charged in convenient locations, then show back up on any scooter operator’s app ready to ’roll’ again.

Also Read : Everything you need to start your own e-scooter business in 2019

 
Charge electric scooter with solar panels

One can charge the electric scooter with any equipment that produces electricity. It is not an issue if one wishes to charge the e-scooter with solar panels. The problem is developing a circuit that transforms it to a standard socket in which one can plug the electric scooter.

The circuit can be created using solar panels, an inverter, and the rest of the circuit. But, there is a more uncomplicated option. There are charging stations offering solar charging for the e-scooters with the help of solar panels. One can even charge the e-scooters at their own place by installing the solar panel kits where it receives sunlight and plug-in the e-scooters. The e-scooter startups can have their own solar panel charging stations across the city to make it convenient for the customers to charge their e-scooters in an eco-friendly manner.

To know more about the e-scooter business models or creating an app for your e-scooter business or how to buy your own fleet of e-scooters you can connect with us and make us your technology partner.

How we can help to get Solar Charging option for your e scooter app or with E scooter iOT integration?

 
We can help you in choosing the right fleet for your business and the right technology to make you unique in the eyes of your audience. We have a team of experts who can get all the new technology support in your e scooter app. Our IOT integration experts can help to set-up or configure latest technology and hardwares with your current e scooter app or fleets. Our best technology, can take your e-scooter business to the top level in your operation area. Get a free consultation session to know more about the app development cost and the features for your e-scooter app.

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The e-scooter rental business has evolved so rapidly and anything which evolves so rapidly evolves with a parcel of myths. Anyone who decides to go an extra mile, these myths clip his wings.

In recent time, some giant online and offline media houses have published news, showing the unfavourable outcome of the e-scooter rental business. They vilify it. They claim that e-scooter is no longer the best-loved mode of transportation for governments and people.

But the reality is different. E-scooter rental companies are still earning well. These companies are actively expanding their business boundaries and getting operational licences from the governments. Their usage rate is continuously climbing high nowadays.

In this blog, we are going to talk on the same. We will discuss top myths associated with e-scooter rental business and the actual market possibilities you need to know before going to start your own e scooter rental business and hiring someone for e-scooter app development.

Myths and realities of E scooter rental service business :

Myth 1: E-scooters’ popularity and usage are fading away!

 
Yes, it’s true – e-scooters are fading away. But only in winter!

Last winter, we heard about it a lot. Many news publishing sites presented the data of e-scooter usage rate of eastern cities of the USA and all major cities of Europe where the mercury falls to the freezing level and declared e-scooter rental business is a dying business. However, in spring, they were proved wrong. Do you know why?

Because, while declaring the e-scooter rental business is a dying business, they didn’t bother to understand the fact that people don’t prefer to ride e-scooters in freezing cold. Thus, during this time of the year, it is very common to have a reduction in usage rate of e-scooters.

From the following image, you can understand it more rationally. It depicts that in the last two months of the year 2018 and the first two months of the year 2019 (basically during winter season), the sales growth of all major e-scooter rental companies was minimum. But soon after winter, it again started to rise.

So, if the winter or any other season of your business operational area is nasty, brace yourself to witness a downfall in usage rate during that period of time. However, you can contact our business experts to know how you can keep generating a good amount of revenue even during white weeks.

Myth 2: E-scooter rental business is suffering from small market problems.

 
The potentiality of the market matters the most while starting a business. Talking specifically about the e-scooter rental business, the other most popular myth is related to the market possibilities. They say that the e-scooter market is a small market where e-scooter rental companies have to fight an uphill battle in order to acquire the initial users.

However, the reality is totally different. Many e-scooter rental companies including some newly launched companies have acquired a good number of users and closed many successful funding rounds. Following is the data, showing the list of a recent funding round closed successfully and the milestone achieved by some e scooter rental service provider companies. This data will wipe out your fear of not acquiring a good number of users.

• A month ago, Wind mobility raised another $50 million.
• In May 2019, a Berlin-based e-scooter rental startup, Tier reached 2 million rides.
• Flash rebranded as Circ and announced to complete 1 million rides.
• Bird raised a series D round and reached $2.5 billion valuations.
• A newly launched startup, Dott seized $34 million in its series A funding round.
• Tier scooter app was downloaded for hundreds of thousands of times in Germany and in just 4 days, users in
• Germany travelled a collective 300,000 Kilometres on e-scooters.

Myth 3: Hardware is not as important as software in the e-scooter rental business

 
scooter rental business is the resource-heavy business where the major resource, an e-scooter costs you more than $500. To reduce this cost, many business owners overlook the quality of e-scooters and deploy cheap and non-reliable e-scooters.

However, it is not an advisable idea.

Recently, governments have imposed many new rules and defined the structure of hardware over the concerns of riders’ safety and security. Looking at the urgency, many e-scooter rental companies also introduced new e-scooters which are more reliable, secure and most importantly, it lasts longer.

• Last week, Bird announced that they are going to add next-generation of e-scooters into their global fleet. They named it Bird Two which comes with a bigger battery, autonomous damage sensors, no visible screws, and puncture-proof tires.
• A Ford acquired e-scooter rental company Spin has also unveiled third-generation of e-scooters. Initially, they are planning to deploy 15,000 units of their new custom-designed e-scooters.
• German carmaker, Audi, went an extra mile and launched something unusual in the segment. Audi’s new e-Tron e-scooter combines a traditional e-scooter and skateboard. Users can control it with their feet by shifting their weight and travel up to 12.5 miles. However, e-Tron e-scooters are equipped with regenerating braking which can lengthen its range.

Myth 4: A lot of players have already intensified the market

 
It is true that a lot of e-scooter rental companies are available in the market. However, this is just one side of the coin. If we flip the coin, we come across the fact which you have to know.

As we have discussed, the e-scooter rental business is the resource-heavy business. Moreover, companies need to get an operational licence from the local authorities and every city demands a new business plan as terrain, users, and competitors vary from city to city. Thus, e-scooter rental companies follow city-to-city expansion model and usually cover less than 10 cities.

You can derive many benefits from this limitation of the e-scooter rental business. Since most of the e-scooter rental companies are able to only offer their services in a few cities, a major portion of a profitable market is still untouched. You still have some room to manoeuvre. So, now all you need to do is, identify the untouched market and launch your service there. Or we can help you to find the best business opportunities if you want to start your own e scooter business.

We can also help you to jump into the already intensified market, with more advanced and unique user features, as well as security features and an app which is having best-in-class compatibility with hardware, thanks to our IoT integration skills.

Who we are? and How we can help you or a startup to kick start an e scooter sharing business?

 
We, as a leading e-scooter app development company, can help you to develop an e-scooter app for both highly competitive market and for the laid-back market.

For the highly competitive market, you can opt for the custom-built e-scooter app and for the laid-back market, we have a ready-made platform which is affordable and armed with all necessary features.

We will develop and deliver your e-scooter app within 45-55 business days and under $10000. We will also let you host the whole IT infrastructure of your e-scooter rental business on our servers.

To know more about e-scooter app features and ask for a free demo, contact our app scientist and business expert.

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In this blog, we will study different types of e-scooters that endow impeccable connectivity with the e-scooter mobile app. We will also understand which are the basic IoT features an e-scooter should have and how a top e-scooter app development company establishes the connection between e-scooters and mobile app. But first, let’s brush up on the importance of an flawless e-scooter in the e-scooter rental business.

Not fancy importance of e-scooters in e-scooter rental business!

It is known to everyone that the underlying purpose of the e-scooter rental business is to provide e-scooters that users can use to roam around the city. But that’s not the only job you are paid for. You should sustain a good riding experience and safety of rider while he is riding on your e-scooter. You can achieve it only with the blend of precisely developed e-scooter app and a proper fleet of e-scooters.

By using IoT technologies and advanced e-scooter app development techniques, e-scooter app development companies accommodate a few features in user app and admin panel which make the e-scooters accessible remotely. Admin and users both can now track the e-scooters, check the battery level of e-scooters, control the speed of e-scooters and many more with just a mobile app. Thus, only those e-scooters which are compatible with IoT integration can provide ultimate user experience and safety.

Types of e-scooters you can select for your e-scooter rental business

As we have discussed earlier, your fleet of e-scooters should not have compatibility issues with IoT technologies. So, it is critical to select a perfect fleet of e-scooters. It is so critical that major e-scooter rental companies are promoting themselves on the bases of how steadier and how technologically advanced e-scooters they are providing than other companies.

A team of Coruscate Solutions has researched and found out two types of e-scooters you can acquire for e-scooter rental business. These are the smart e-scooters which come with inbuilt IoT controller and conventional e-scooters which don’t come with the inbuilt IoT controller. Top manufacturers who are assembling smart e-scooters are Omni and Segway. The e-scooters which Omni and Segway offer, are equipped with IoT controllers which handle data manipulation, decision-making and allow users and admin to operate the e-scooters with the e-scooter mobile app. Price of such smart e-scooters is around $500. If you don’t know about the e-scooter market and configuration of e-scooters, a team of Coruscate is always ready to assist you.

If we talk about the conventional e-scooter then it is the more preferable choice of an e-scooter rental startup. Compared to smart e-scooters, cost of conventional e-scooters is very low. But here it is worth to mention that conventional e-scooters don’t come with the IoT controller. That means you need to buy a set of IoT controllers in order to make it smart. Moreover, an e-scooter app development company has to customize IoT controllers according to the configuration of the e-scooters. Coruscate Solutions will also help you if you select conventional e-scooters. We will customize the IoT controllers in such a way that it will communicate with the e-scooter mobile app in the most possible way. Following image gives you the insight into how much you need to spend to buy IoT controllers.

In the next section of this blog, let’s know which are the IoT features an IoT controller provides.

Top IoT features you should have in your e-scooters and e scooter app.

Regardless of which type of e-scooters you purchase, you should need a few IoT features in that purchased e-scooters. This is the basic requirement and you should pay heed to it.

Power on/off control or locking mechanism

Users should able to lock or unlock the e-scooters by scanning the QR code through the e-scooter mobile app. Additionally, Admin should also able to lock and unlock the e-scooter with its admin panel.

Communication method

There are two types of connection happen – one is between IoT controller and server and another is between e-scooter mobile app and e-scooters. For establishing a connection between the IoT controller and server, it should support 4G. And for the communication between the mobile app and e-scooter, it should support Bluetooth data transfer.

GPS Tracking

IoT controllers should need to report the location of the e-scooters to the server. So, user and admin both can track the e-scooters in real time.

Charging

IoT controller contains a chip which needs the power to operate. So, it should be directly powered by the e-scooter battery.

Alarm

Theft and vandalism are the two major problems all e-scooter rental companies are facing. Three types of Alarm – fall down, cut down power wire and abnormal movement can reduce the possibilities of an e-scooter theft.

Monitor battery level

To keep the batteries of all e-scooters charged is the fundamental business process of an e-scooter rental company. So, it is important for the admin to remotely know the battery level of every e-scooters.

Limit speed

Admin should able to set and limit the speed of the e-scooters to ensure the safety of riders and their surrounding.

Light control

Lights of e-scooters should be controlled by mobile app or light should turn on automatically as soon as the rider starts riding e-scooter.

Geo-Fence

When a user rides an e-scooter outside of the business boundaries, admin should receive a notification. Apart from this, it should also update the rider when he approaches a school or prohibited parking.

How to control the e-scooters with the e-scooter mobile app?

In order to turn on/off e-scooters or to track the e-scooters, an e-scooter app development company has to entrench a connection between IoT controller, server and e-scooter mobile app. To do so, they use the MQTT protocol. It is the standard messaging protocol that is designed for connection with remote locations. It provides a very useful library in Node.js. Our developers own 1000+ hours of combined experience on MQTT protocol. They know all possible ways to bring MQTT protocol in e-scooter app development in a most efficient manner.

Coruscate Solutions which is one of top e-scooter app development companies, develops a next-gen e-scooter app for both smart e-scooters and conventional e-scooters.

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