Wireless Brake

German experts have successfully tested the wireless bike brakes, with a 99.9% operating result, paving the way for similar brakes on planes and trains.

Instead of having a wiring harness with the grommet tight on the rim when the brakes are needed, the wireless brake works by sending the signal from the recorder to the receiver on the gear, and activating the disc brake.

The wireless brake system almost reaches 99.999999999997% of the time, according to Holger Hermanns, a computer scientist at the University of Saarland in Germany who designed and tested the brakes.

'That means that in a trillion times the brake is activated, we have only three failed attempts. Not perfect, but this system is acceptable , ' said Hermanns.

Of course, no brakes are 100% safe, but the reliance on brake-based transmissions such as Wi-Fi for laptops or cellular radio waves for mobile phones sounds too dangerous.

However, leading-edge wireless systems are applied in areas of unacceptable failure, such as rail and air brakes.

Europe has made concrete plans to disseminate wireless brakes on trains, according to Hermanns. But testing this type of brakes on the train is complex and risky. That is why the German specialist decided to make bicycle brakes for the first time.

Experts have tested the effectiveness of similar algorithms for the case of aircraft and chemical plants.