The first day of calendar spring Bialystok greeted on bicycles. On Monday (21 March) launched the third season of the biker, this year, city bikes took off earlier than in previous years. Winter spent in the warehouse, where he carried out maintenance and service work. Ten such bikes will soon appear in our city. Tandems are arranged at random locations. The city has prepared a reflective safety vest for children and adults, which will be passed białostoczanom within the context of action and prevention activities targeted primarily at cyclists. Because of the Citizens Budget 2016 purchased ten thousand vests.
As part of residential projects in the Budget 2016 Civic inhabitants of Bialystok submitted a draft additional bicycle station. Another station, as requested by the originators, established at ul. – The new season will bring, perhaps, new users, although as early as 2015 Bialystok biker enjoying record – said the president Tadeusz Truskolaski. City bikes were rented more than 472 thousand. times, resulting in an increase of over 35% compared to 2014 (the first season of loans were more than 347 thousand.). Almost half the increase in the number of users registered in the system compared to the first season. In 2015 a group of enthusiasts biker joined more than 12 thousand. The system registered there were already 38 684. Read also: Biker. He fell to another record important step in the development of Bialystok Communications Cycling was larger system. In 2014, in Bialystok, we had 30 stations and 300 bicycles in 2015 the station was already 45 and 450 bicycles, a place where there are new bicycle stations, they chose themselves białostoczanie. It should also be noted that Bialystok is the only biker in Poland bicycle agglomeration system, which in addition to stations in Bialystok, also includes one station in the municipality of Choroszcz and two in the municipality of Juchnowiec Church.
The team of students who went to the Technical University of Central America, won the contest Cisco swith Up Challenge 2016 in Krakow. Students defeated representation AGH design intelligent, luminous T-shirts.
Federico Navarrete, Alfredo Celso Enrique Hernández are scholarship holders Erasmus Mundus LAMENITEC. They are studying computer science at the Faculty of EEIA within the Centre for International Education. The competition Cisco swith Up Challenge drafted a FireFly T-shirt, or inteligentenej, luminous T-shirts. According to the students of the shirt can be successfully used by people working at night and replace reflective vest.
– Our goal was to create something innovative, attractive, useful, easy to manufacture and of course cheap. Became interested in intelligent clothing, that is, one in which builds the electronics – says Alfredo Celso. Students inspired classes in Pervasive Computing led by Dr. Andrzej Romanowski from the Institute of Applied Informatics. – In the framework of this subject was the first prototype of the smart t-shirts for bikers improving their visibility, signaling maneuvering and lifting their safety. In this phase the driver on the steering wheel lets you turn on the LED flashers, which are sewn into the back of the shirt. The next step is to control the level smartphone, as well as voice control – said Dr. Eng. Andrzej Romanowski. Alfredo Celso Federico Navarrete come from El Salvador, Enrique Hernández Nicaragua. In Lodz will remain until the defense of the thesis, students with reflective clothing planning to expand the project and go to the finals in Paris. They got the invitation to the headquarters of Cisco in California, where they will try to support the need for the establishment and development of start-drop. Federico also takes part in the Imagine Cup competition.