- The creation of this prototype is part of the MADRAS project, funded by the Horizon 2020 research and innovation program of the European Commission.
- Cooltra goes one step further in security measures and joins the creation of this sensor with the aim of facilitating user access to their vehicles and helping to preserve their identity.
- Eurecat Technological Centre of Catalonia has been the coordinator of the MADRAS project and has contributed to the development and validation of the sensor together with Cooltra
The security and identity management challenges that micromobility services face today have led companies to seek solutions based on biometric technology. The fluid and secure collection of data from new transport systems is essential so that they can adequately contribute to facilitating urban mobility.
In this context, Cooltra, a leading company in sustainable mobility on two wheels in Europe, participates in the creation of the first prototype of a fingerprint sensor to unlock its shared electric motorcycles through the MADRAS project, funded by the Horizon 2020 research and innovation program of the European Commission.
“At Cooltra we are constantly working to find new forms of security and identity management that allow us to raise the bar for current solutions on the market. Participating in the MADRAS project since 2020 is allowing us to test different technologies such as biometrics and see how other industries have solved similar problems,” says Ricard Gomicia, Electric Vehicle Engineer at Cooltra.
“The prototype that we are developing uses the fingerprint as a guarantee of maximum security and will serve to speed up and facilitate user access to our shared electric motorcycles, since they will be able to make the reservation and registration in a single step.”
Eurecat has been the coordinator of the MADRAS project and has contributed to the development and validation of the sensor together with Cooltra. MADRAS has worked on the development of new materials and manufacturing processes for scalable production of Organic and Large Area Electronics (OLAE) devices.
The prototype that it is developing with the collaboration of Cooltra for the people authentication market applied to shared mobility helps the company to test the latest research and developments in the market to, in the future, have the possibility of be able to implement biometric technology.
This reader could be useful in motosharing, but also in the private sharing service for companies offered by Cooltra. And through this identification system only those people authorized by the company could use the vehicles.
Cooltra’s objective is to integrate the biometric sensor that it is developing within the framework of the MADRAS project into its electric motorcycles. This reader will be able to scan and identify users’ fingerprints thanks to an optical imaging component, activating Cooltra motorcycles through telematics and a back-end interface.