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Smart Motorcycle Tracking and Security Platform
An end-to-end tracking and security system that unites the IoT tracking device fitted to the motorcycle, the rider's iOS/Android app and the web panel that manages operations on a single platform.
MotoSense is an end-to-end tracking and security system that brings together an IoT tracking device fitted to the motorcycle, the iOS/Android app in the rider's pocket and the web panel that manages operations on a single platform. Location, speed, ignition, vibration, fall and battery data coming from the device are processed in a central data ingestion service; they reach the rider as instant notifications and the operations team as a reportable movement log. The rider tracks the motorcycle on the map, immobilizes it remotely, automatically notifies emergency contacts in the event of a crash, plans group rides and reaches accessories compatible with the motorcycle from within the app. The operations team, in turn, manages the IMEI inventory, subscriptions, more than 200 dealer locations, announcements and staff permissions from a single console.
A customer of ours operating in the motorcycle sector was not satisfied that the tracking devices it sold were offered with a generic app that only answered the question “where?”. The goal was to offer the rider who buys the device an ecosystem in which they could intervene at the moment of a theft, be found in the event of a crash, organize rides with friends and reach products specific to their motorcycle from the same place. In addition, its operation had reached the point where the dealers selling the devices, the subscription renewals and the inventory of thousands of devices could no longer be tracked by hand. At Karatsoft, we designed the project in three layers: the data ingestion service that talks to the devices in the field, the mobile app that carries the rider experience, and the admin panel that covers the entire operation. We first stood up the data flow and the command channel, then developed the mobile app in five main modules (tracking, security, emergency, rides, store), and in the final stage completed the panel with dealer network, subscription and organizational structure management.
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The rider tracks the motorcycle on the map in real time: ignition status, speed, daily and total kilometers, battery voltage, device battery, satellite count and signal strength are all visible on a single card. The rider switches between “My Motorcycle” and “Me” and sees the time of the latest data. Ride history shows the trips of the selected day on the map, along with a speed and ignition table.
When theft is suspected, the rider sounds the alarm or immobilizes the motorcycle from the device details screen. The rider switches the ignition, speed, towing, vibration, fall, power and device removal alerts on and off one by one and sets the detection sensitivity at three levels. The system delivers commands redundantly over SMS and the data channel; every triggered event arrives as a notification.
When the device detects a fall in a crash, MotoSense automatically places a call and sends an SMS and a notification to the contacts the rider registered in advance. The emergency screen shows the latest crash detection with its date and time, lists the registered contacts and starts a call for help with a single tap. The rider can add a new contact to the list only by confirming the KVKK (Turkish Personal Data Protection Law) privacy notice.
The rider enters a group name, selects the motorcycle, adds friends and plans the tour by setting the route and duration. During the ride, participants see each other on the map; the screen shows distance, duration and number of people. The rider can also send loved ones who do not have the app a live location link valid for 1, 2, 4 or 8 hours, or with no time limit.
The garage brings all of the rider's motorcycles and tracking devices together in a single account. The rider adds a motorcycle with its brand, model, license plate and year of manufacture and pairs the tracking device in the same form; the selected motorcycle's ignition, speed and device connection are visible in the garage. The license expiry date is followed from the same record by the rider in the device list and by the operations team in the admin panel.
The store recognizes the motorcycle in the rider's garage: the “Show products by motorcycle” button narrows the catalog to accessories and spare parts that fit that brand and model. The filter screen searches by motorcycle, category and category detail. The operations team bulk-uploads products, categories and brand-model matches from the admin panel via Excel.
The app shows more than 200 installation and service points across Turkey on a map and in a list; the rider switches between the store and the installation dealer and gets directions to the nearest location. The operations team marks these locations on the map in the admin panel and schedules announcements targeted by brand, model and device ownership from the same panel.
The web admin panel runs the operations behind the mobile app. The operations team manages the IMEI inventory, subscriptions, dealer locations, store catalog and announcements from a single console, sees licenses nearing expiry 45 days in advance and grants permissions through an organization, branch and role hierarchy. A dealer marked in the panel appears on the app's map, a product uploaded via Excel appears in the store, and a scheduled announcement appears in the rider's notifications.
Instant notifications and alerts, quick actions and live data: users and field teams get their work done from their phones, without waiting.
Real-time location, speed, daily/total km, battery voltage, satellites and signal strength on a single screen.
Stop the motorcycle from your phone and sound the alarm the moment theft occurs.
The rider sets the vibration and towing detection threshold.
Automatic call, SMS and notification to registered contacts the moment a fall occurs.
Ignition, speed limit, towing, fall, power cut and device removal are each managed separately.
Plan a tour by choosing the route, duration and participants; members follow each other live.
1-8 hours or no time limit, a secure tracking link even for people without the app.
Review past trips with a map and a speed/ignition table.
Multiple vehicles, device pairing and license tracking in a single account.
Accessories and spare parts compatible with the model in the garage are filtered automatically.
200+ installation points across Turkey, finding the nearest service and getting directions.
Scheduled notifications segmented by brand, model and device ownership.
Per-device license tracking, a warning 45 days in advance, extension on a single screen.
Brands, models, categories and products imported within minutes.
Authorization through an organization, branch, department and role hierarchy.
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How we work
This project was run on the same four principles; yours will be too.
Scope, integrations and roadmap are written down and agreed in the first weeks; no surprises along the way.
ERP, accounting, banking, e-invoicing: whatever you run, we integrate on top of it and your data stays where it is.
Role-based access, two-factor authentication, data-protection compliance and a log of every action are built into the foundation, not bolted on later.
Maintenance, monitoring and new releases come from the team that built the project; someone who knows your system is always a call away.
MotoSense
The live tracking screen delivers the location and status data coming from the device on the motorcycle to the rider's phone instantly; the same data is also written to the movement log in the web admin panel, which the operations team can filter and report on.
The app's GPS tab shows the motorcycle on the map; the card at the bottom states whether the motorcycle is moving, whether the ignition is on or off, and the time of the last data. The tiles give total and daily kilometers, current speed, battery voltage, device battery status, satellite count and cellular signal strength. From the same card, the rider moves on to device settings, live location sharing and ride history. In ride history, once the rider selects the motorcycle and the date, the route appears on the map and the speed and ignition information appears in a table in chronological order.
Our customer was not satisfied that its tracking devices were offered with a generic app that only answered the question “where?”. In MotoSense, location, speed, ignition and battery data are validated in an independent data ingestion service, written to the log and, after passing through the rules engine, reach the rider's screen. The same records feed the movement log in the admin panel; by filtering a device's history by person, IMEI and date range, the operations team reads from the same data as the rider.
The remote intervention screen gives the rider real control over the motorcycle: alarm and immobilization commands go straight from the phone, and the rider decides for themselves which events trigger an alert and how sensitive detection is.
The device details screen shows the IMEI, the registration and license expiry dates, and the brand and model of the connected motorcycle; the “Sound alarm” and “Immobilize motorcycle” buttons below it send the command directly to the device. The “Device alert notifications” page groups alerts under ignition, speed, security and battery headings; the rider manages the alerts for movement without ignition, vibration, fall, power connection and device removal with separate switches. The “Notifications” page lists every incoming alert with the motorcycle name and time.
A parked motorcycle swaying in the wind had to be told apart from a real theft attempt; for this reason the sensitivity setting and per-event on/off switches were left to the rider, and the false-alarm balance passed into the rider's control. So that commands also arrive over a weak data connection, SMS and the data channel work redundantly. The operations team defines the parameters of the alarm, stop, immobilize and sensitivity commands in the admin panel; the command the rider issues from the phone reaches the device with these definitions.
The emergency module automatically notifies the rider's loved ones in a crash: when the device detects a fall, a call, SMS and notification go to the registered contacts; the rider can also call for help with a single button.
The “Crash detection” section at the top of the screen shows the latest detected crash with its date and time. In the “My emergency contacts” list, the people the rider has added appear with their names and phone numbers; the “Add contact” link opens the new-record window. The window asks for first name, last name and phone number, and does not complete the registration until the checkbox for the KVKK (Turkish Personal Data Protection Law) privacy notice is ticked. The “Emergency” button at the bottom starts the call for help manually without waiting for automatic detection; the same button is also on the app's home screen.
One of the project's goals was that the rider could be found in the event of a crash. For this reason, the device and the app take over the job of raising the alert: the fall data passes through the data ingestion service, the rules engine recognizes the event and triggers the notification service; the call, SMS and app notification go to the pre-defined contacts. Because the phone numbers of emergency contacts are personal data, registration was made conditional on KVKK consent; the rider decides for themselves who will be notified.
The group ride module organizes the ride from planning the tour to following each other on the road; the location sharing link gives even loved ones without the app a time-limited and secure way to follow along.
On the “Create new ride” screen, the rider enters the group name, selects the motorcycle to use, invites friends and marks the duration of the ride; the plan is not completed until the start and end points are selected on the map. The screen of the planned tour draws the route on the map and gives the distance, duration and number of participants; below it are the participants' license plates, speeds and distance covered. On the “Share live location” screen, the rider selects the motorcycle and the link duration and creates a new link; active links appear on the same page.
One of the goals was for the rider to be able to organize rides with friends from within the app. Group members seeing each other live on the map improves coordination and safety on the road. The live location link, in turn, opens the location for a set period for safety or for meeting up. Because location is personal data, the live ride sharing service in the background generates time-limited, signed links; when the time is up, access closes automatically. The person who receives the link does not need to download the app.
The garage and devices section organizes the rider's motorcycles and tracking devices in a single account; the rider and the operations team follow, from the same record, which device is linked to which motorcycle and when the license will expire.
The “My garage” list shows the registered motorcycles; beneath the motorcycle the rider selects, tiles open up for ignition status, current speed, connected device and sleep mode. The plus button brings up the add-motorcycle form: the rider searches for the brand, and the form filters the models by that brand; the registration is completed with the license plate, year of manufacture and an optional tracking device selection. The “My smart devices” page lists each device with its IMEI, license plate and license expiry date.
A rider with several motorcycles does not open a separate account for each; they manage device pairing themselves from the garage. The same pairing lands in the user and device pairings list in the admin panel; the operations team sees from there which device is assigned to which person and license plate. Because the device, mobile line and license terms can expire independently of one another, the panel lists licenses nearing expiry 45 days in advance, and the app warns the rider with a notification.
The store module brings accessories and spare parts that fit the rider's motorcycle into the app; the catalog is bulk-updated via Excel in the web admin panel, and the app, using the motorcycle in the garage, lists only compatible products.
At the top of the store screen are the “Filter”, “Show products by motorcycle” and “Sort” options; product cards carry an image, a short description and a price. When the rider turns on the by-motorcycle filter, the list narrows to products compatible with the brand and model of the motorcycle in their garage. The filter page applies the motorcycle, category and category detail selections together. The product detail includes hardware features, technical data and the purchase redirection; the store section on the home screen shows featured products.
The challenge was matching hundreds of brands and thousands of models with store products and managing this catalog in bulk from the panel. The operations team imports brands, models, categories and products within minutes using an Excel template; the app combines this matching with the rider's garage. The rider sees only the accessories and spare parts that fit their motorcycle. Campaign images edited in the panel reach the rider in the carousel on the home screen, and campaign announcements reach them in notifications.
The dealer network module directs the rider to the nearest installation and service point across Turkey; the management of the locations and the targeted announcements sent to riders, in turn, are handled centrally from the web admin panel.
The “Locations” screen is divided into “Store” and “Installation dealer” tabs; the map marks the locations across Turkey, and the list that opens from the bottom gives the number of dealers and the address of each location. The rider selects a location and gets directions; the authorized service shortcut on the home screen leads to the same directory. In the panel, the operations team records each dealer with its coordinates and adds a new branch or dealer by marking it on the map in the form; the location appears on the map in the app.
The operation had reached the point where the dealers selling devices and the installation points could no longer be tracked by hand. Now dealer records are managed in a single panel, from the same source as the map the rider sees. Announcements work on the same logic: the operations team writes the title and the message, filters the target audience by brand, model and device ownership, and sets the sending date and time; the notification lands only on the phones of the relevant riders.
The admin panel is MotoSense's operations center: the device inventory, subscriptions, dealers, store catalog, announcements and staff permissions are managed here; the dealers, products and announcements the rider sees in the app come from these records.
The “Overview” screen summarizes the number of registered devices and active subscriptions and the licenses that will expire within 45 days; the recent events table shows the movement, ignition, speed and immobilization events coming from devices, with their IMEI and status. In a device record, the IMEI, serial number, software version, subscription period and linked person sit in the same form; the team extends a subscription from a single screen. The movement log filters coordinates, speed and timestamps by person, IMEI and date range.
The panel and the app work on the same records. A dealer the team marks on the map lands on the rider's dealer map, the brands, models and products it uploads via Excel land in the store's by-motorcycle filter, and the announcement it schedules lands in the notifications of the selected riders. While a subscription nearing expiry is listed in the panel, the rider is also warned in the app. The team manages the parameters of the alarm, immobilization and sensitivity commands from here, and grants staff permissions through an organization, branch, department and role hierarchy.
