Towards a responsive e-scooter mobility

June 25, 2025

E-scooters are a practical and more sustainable alternative to most other urban vehicles. This thesis is a follow-up to two previous theses, and seeks to provide options against safety issues e-scooters are commonly known for, per some guidelines of MobiCascais, a shared e-scooter service provider. Sensors measuring distance to obstacles, accelerations and environmental indicators, as well as a geolocation module, have been used to aggregate ride data. While the previous theses of the work implemented a system that reports said data to a central server, this one aimed to make the use of the retrieved data more user-oriented. For this, a basic set of undesirable use cases was defined, and associated to the data of each peripheral. The identified use cases are displayed on both the e-scooter itself and on a mobile application interface. In addition, Time-of-Flight distance sensors have been adopted for more reliability, the e-scooter now uses geofenced data that is in part updated by the server, and a printed circuit board has been devised to simplify the hardware. The limitations of the new approach are also discussed in this thesis, which suggests forms of mitigating them in the future.

Authors in the community:

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  Tomás Orlando Cagica Carvalho Fernandes Fachada

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Supervisors of this institution:

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  Teresa Maria Sá Ferreira Vazão Vasques

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electrical-engineering-electronic-engineering-information-engineering - Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

eng - English

Instituto Superior Técnico