We chose to explore the domain of bike theft prevention and reporting. Most college students get around campus by bike. Half of these bikes get stolen and most of these thefts occur in the same places, usually by the same people. However, most bikers have no way of knowing where the majority of these thefts happen. Furthermore, most bike thefts go unreported both because victims know there is a small chance of their bikes being found, and also because of all the paperwork that is involved.

We hope to solve this by creating an app in which people can easily input and save their bike(s) information with a convenient barcode scanner option to get the serial number, report it stolen to the authorities and campus communities, and access data provided by other users, such as frequent places of theft and best types of locks, so they can avoid those places and prevent their bikes from getting stolen. We also provide a way for users to report locations and photos of bikes that look abandoned or stolen, and display them to the community, so that owners can easily locate them.