We Created The World’s Safest Bike Lock To Finally Stop Bike Theft
We decided that as a group with different skills: engineers, marketing professionals, product designers, we thought we could do something about this, so we conceived a Smart Lock. We wanted to stop our bikes from getting stolen and to also track them if they did.
We obviously realized that creating such a bike lock was going to be a huge task, but committed two years of our lives, to prototyping, designing, testing, scrapping, and trying again.
The end result of the late nights, hard work, and maybe a few tears, is a bike safety device we are very proud of, possibly the safest lock in the world.
Our lock is made with a hardened stainless steel casing to be tough, GPS tracking so you can track your bike worldwide, motion sensors to alert you of suspicious activity, and a 110db alarm to alert those nearby.
We would love to bring this goal nearer to the finishing line so have launched on Kickstarter and would appreciate anyone helping with this clever design or backing us. Help stop my bike from getting stolen for the third time!
More info: kickstarter.com
Some concepts and ideas, it looks less like a spaceship in reality
The design and engineers team with their many prototypes
Watch how the safest bike lock in the world works below:
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Share on FacebookLet's just hope friends and family don't lock it while you're riding on it! :)
In China, people steal bikes by throwing them onto a truck without even touching the lock. How you gonna stop that :/.
Motion sensors, the bike moves, the alarm is triggered and the GPS helps you to track it!!
Load More Replies...Good idea if it was cheaper. 299 US dollars for a lock is too much for the majority of bike owners.
Yeah, but it has an app & GPS and you can see your bike going to the Dominican Republic..... :D
Load More Replies...This has one tremendous flaw - it doesn't allow you to actually lock the bike to something. There is nothing preventing the casual thief from picking the bike up and running off with it. I noticed that in the demo videos, none of the thieves had tools. They were people that happened to be walking by, noticed a bike that was not fastened down, and thought "Hey, free bike!" It wasn't until they picked the thing up and the siren went off that they dropped it and ran off. You don't have to have a perfect lock. You just have to have one that's better than the bike next to yours. In the case of this lock, a thief will immediately focus on it because there is no perceived need to break the lock - they can just pick the bike up and walk away. The bike not being locked to something is enough to encourage a passerby to try to grab it. You could use this in conjunction with a U-Lock, but if you do that, why use this one at all?
There is an alarm, if the bike moves while locked the motion sensors will trigger the alarm, and there is the gps to track it, so..
Load More Replies...Problem is, nobody pays attention to alarms. Also, wrapping it in foil is likely good enough to block the GPS.
I love how the thief in the promotional video has the wimpiest pair of bolt-cutters in history, those wouldn't take a $2 padlock off your gym locker. Any self-respecting thief has a pair with 3/4 jaws and compound handles. Also, if I were to try this, I would drill through the solar-panel and up into the lock body. That would probably destroy all of the electronic wizardry.
At BEST, this tracks a stolen bike. I could defeat the GPS in LESS then 5 seconds.
There's no such thing as "bike crime". There are only thieves. And a thief will steal anything that is easy to take.
Oh , i really did not expect to see so many people finding flaws to it:) i think its fantastic that someone worked towards lowering the number of stolen bikes! Noting is flawless at first, but perfecting someone takes time and the feedback is helpful. Noone today would care for the original cellphone, yet it was expensive cause it was new.i for one appreciate any new thing that prevents robbery , and consider it a step up.
The solution to bike theft isn't a new lock dripping with bells and whistles (apparently, literally). The solution is for bike owners to develop a certain amount of responsibility and secure their bikes, appropriately. speaking as a security professional, this lock has so many things wrong, that if you fixed all of them, you'd wind up with... a chain (or cable) with a normal padlock on it. Oh. and people that go around defeating bike locks (yes, that does happen,) don't carry bolt cutters. they carry a bic pen and bobby pins. the people with the bolt cutters? those be people like me, confiscating the bike because you locked it to something the property owner would really rather you didn't.
Load More Replies...I'm all for innovation and stuff, but do we really need to do everything with our phones. Sure this thing has a solar thingy, but that still doesn't mean it can't break or die (like when you park your bike indoors), which leaves you unable to open (or lock) your bike. What if you had a late party, left the bluetooth running or had to use your phone intensively and your phone is dead? And the fact alone that you can grant other people access just means that some other nifty guy (or girl) can probably hack the system to get it to open (or lock). Oh and that GPS tracker also seems to invite problems, the cops will probably not invest their time in your stolen bike so do you really want to confront those people by yourself?
While I agree that not everything needs to be phone-controlled, most of your concerns apply to traditional locks, too. You can easily loose a key, which is similar to your out-of-battery phone then. And while people cannot hack your lock-app, they can forge a fake key. Moreover, there is no legal ground for police to invest less time into finding your bike based on its lock.
Load More Replies...This looks like a good idea...particularly if you consider the 10% rule, stating that a lock should be around 10% the price of a bike. This leaves quite some freedom for the price...and I would prefer it over immense heavily heavy-duty steal locks. However, there might be two pitfalls. a) is the alarm and the GPS really rugged? b) what about false positives? I guess an army of ringing bikes that simply were blown off by a storm could be a big showstopper...
Hi, Hans. The GPS and the alarm are really well-implemented in the Deeperlock internals. Deeperlock has withstood really tough conditions for testing purposes. As for the auto alarm systems, Deeperlock has the sensitivity controller, therefore, if you see that surroundings, where you park your bike, are too shaky (near railway let's say or active road), you can decrease the sensitivity of the lock, thus, it won't turn on alarm every time it gets shakes. You can control the sensitivity level from the application.
Load More Replies...Let's just hope friends and family don't lock it while you're riding on it! :)
In China, people steal bikes by throwing them onto a truck without even touching the lock. How you gonna stop that :/.
Motion sensors, the bike moves, the alarm is triggered and the GPS helps you to track it!!
Load More Replies...Good idea if it was cheaper. 299 US dollars for a lock is too much for the majority of bike owners.
Yeah, but it has an app & GPS and you can see your bike going to the Dominican Republic..... :D
Load More Replies...This has one tremendous flaw - it doesn't allow you to actually lock the bike to something. There is nothing preventing the casual thief from picking the bike up and running off with it. I noticed that in the demo videos, none of the thieves had tools. They were people that happened to be walking by, noticed a bike that was not fastened down, and thought "Hey, free bike!" It wasn't until they picked the thing up and the siren went off that they dropped it and ran off. You don't have to have a perfect lock. You just have to have one that's better than the bike next to yours. In the case of this lock, a thief will immediately focus on it because there is no perceived need to break the lock - they can just pick the bike up and walk away. The bike not being locked to something is enough to encourage a passerby to try to grab it. You could use this in conjunction with a U-Lock, but if you do that, why use this one at all?
There is an alarm, if the bike moves while locked the motion sensors will trigger the alarm, and there is the gps to track it, so..
Load More Replies...Problem is, nobody pays attention to alarms. Also, wrapping it in foil is likely good enough to block the GPS.
I love how the thief in the promotional video has the wimpiest pair of bolt-cutters in history, those wouldn't take a $2 padlock off your gym locker. Any self-respecting thief has a pair with 3/4 jaws and compound handles. Also, if I were to try this, I would drill through the solar-panel and up into the lock body. That would probably destroy all of the electronic wizardry.
At BEST, this tracks a stolen bike. I could defeat the GPS in LESS then 5 seconds.
There's no such thing as "bike crime". There are only thieves. And a thief will steal anything that is easy to take.
Oh , i really did not expect to see so many people finding flaws to it:) i think its fantastic that someone worked towards lowering the number of stolen bikes! Noting is flawless at first, but perfecting someone takes time and the feedback is helpful. Noone today would care for the original cellphone, yet it was expensive cause it was new.i for one appreciate any new thing that prevents robbery , and consider it a step up.
The solution to bike theft isn't a new lock dripping with bells and whistles (apparently, literally). The solution is for bike owners to develop a certain amount of responsibility and secure their bikes, appropriately. speaking as a security professional, this lock has so many things wrong, that if you fixed all of them, you'd wind up with... a chain (or cable) with a normal padlock on it. Oh. and people that go around defeating bike locks (yes, that does happen,) don't carry bolt cutters. they carry a bic pen and bobby pins. the people with the bolt cutters? those be people like me, confiscating the bike because you locked it to something the property owner would really rather you didn't.
Load More Replies...I'm all for innovation and stuff, but do we really need to do everything with our phones. Sure this thing has a solar thingy, but that still doesn't mean it can't break or die (like when you park your bike indoors), which leaves you unable to open (or lock) your bike. What if you had a late party, left the bluetooth running or had to use your phone intensively and your phone is dead? And the fact alone that you can grant other people access just means that some other nifty guy (or girl) can probably hack the system to get it to open (or lock). Oh and that GPS tracker also seems to invite problems, the cops will probably not invest their time in your stolen bike so do you really want to confront those people by yourself?
While I agree that not everything needs to be phone-controlled, most of your concerns apply to traditional locks, too. You can easily loose a key, which is similar to your out-of-battery phone then. And while people cannot hack your lock-app, they can forge a fake key. Moreover, there is no legal ground for police to invest less time into finding your bike based on its lock.
Load More Replies...This looks like a good idea...particularly if you consider the 10% rule, stating that a lock should be around 10% the price of a bike. This leaves quite some freedom for the price...and I would prefer it over immense heavily heavy-duty steal locks. However, there might be two pitfalls. a) is the alarm and the GPS really rugged? b) what about false positives? I guess an army of ringing bikes that simply were blown off by a storm could be a big showstopper...
Hi, Hans. The GPS and the alarm are really well-implemented in the Deeperlock internals. Deeperlock has withstood really tough conditions for testing purposes. As for the auto alarm systems, Deeperlock has the sensitivity controller, therefore, if you see that surroundings, where you park your bike, are too shaky (near railway let's say or active road), you can decrease the sensitivity of the lock, thus, it won't turn on alarm every time it gets shakes. You can control the sensitivity level from the application.
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