Chapter 3: The SmartCity Bike-Sharing Service

Throughout the book, a fictional bike-sharing service, SwipeBike, will be used as an example to illuminate how Amazon Kinesis can be applied in a variety of different situations. Bike-sharing services provide city commuters with environmentally friendly alternatives to traditional personal vehicles and buses. Cities such as New York City, Paris, London, Hangzhou, and Mumbai have implemented successful bike-sharing programs with significant commuter adoption and reduced city traffic.

The use case is situated in the fictional municipality of SmartCity, USA. SmartCity wants to further improve on the success of its recently deployed bike-sharing program. Since its launch, it has reduced traffic, contributed to significant improvements in the city's air quality, and has increased the citizens' physical health.

SmartCity conducted a year-long feedback survey and determined that riders wanted a "more real-time and immersive...