Along the same line as the bus and tram stops, the monuments and museums in the city, the Vélo Bleu bike sharing stations in Nice are now equipped with NFC tags.
The « Nice Essentiel » (Essential Nice) mobile service gathers all the useful information for cyclists on an interactive mapping, provides a 4-language description of all the points of interest along the journey, and invites Nice citizens and visitors to discover the city thanks to itineraries to follow by bicycle.
Users will also find on their Smartphone the display of the cycling lanes, bike parks, bike repair stores, water supply points, public toilets, and even leisure areas fitted out for enjoying a good lunch break!

This new mobile service is integrated within the transversal mobile service that has been implemented by Connecthings and live since 2010. As a consequence, it allows users to know with one click where the closest Vélo Bleu bike stations are, and to check their real time availability from the 2,000 NFC tags displayed on bus and tram stops, or from the monuments of the Vieux Nice. In return, from the bike stations users can access real time passenger information of the closest bus and tram stops.

On the occasion of the launch of this new service, Laetitia Gazel Anthoine, CEO and founder of Connecthings said: “The Bike mobile service in Nice is a good illustration of what our platform brings to our clients: to easily and quickly deploy brand new NFC mobile services on their territory and link them to the existing context-based and cross-cutting information, so with one click users carry on accessing high value added information with the best possible user experience.”