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Sheltec partners with Don Cicleto to consolidate their smart bike parking solutions in Canada

Sheltec, a Canadian manufacturer with more than 40 years of experience in urban and street furniture, has partnered with Don Cicleto to consolidate and scale its smart bike parking solutions in Canada through Cyclolink, its dedicated smart cycling infrastructure division.

Based in Montreal, Cyclolink was created to deliver safe, secure, and affordable bicycle parking solutions to communities, building on Sheltec’s long-standing manufacturing expertise while introducing a unified digital layer to support connected, service-oriented infrastructure.

Through this partnership, Sheltec brings its smart bike parking offering under a single technological platform, simplifying deployment, operations, and future expansion across Canadian cities.

A first city-wide smart bike parking project in Granby, Quebec

The first project developed under this consolidated approach is a city-wide smart bicycle parking deployment in Granby.

The project consists of individual public bicycle lockers, available under a pay-per-use model, offering citizens a flexible and secure solution for everyday cycling needs.

To support this deployment, Cyclolink uses the Don Cicleto Canada app, allowing users to locate available lockers, access them digitally, and manage their parking sessions without physical keys or cards.

This unified setup enables the city to offer a modern bicycle parking service while keeping management and operations streamlined.

Digitising and unifying bicycle parking with Don Cicleto’s technology

Cyclolink’s smart bike parking solutions are powered by Don Cicleto’s access-control SaaS platform, designed specifically to digitise cycling infrastructure and consolidate different hardware configurations into a single, coherent system.

The platform provides:

  • A mobile application for users to access bicycle lockers digitally
  • A centralised administration dashboard to manage infrastructure, users, access control, and usage data
  • Support for flexible pricing models, including pay-per-use
  • Compatibility with multiple hardware configurations

By relying on Don Cicleto’s technology, Sheltec and Cyclolink can standardise their smart bike parking offering, reduce technical complexity, and accelerate the rollout of connected infrastructure.

A collaboration built on experience

The collaboration highlights how experienced manufacturers can consolidate and expand their smart infrastructure portfolio by combining robust physical products with a proven digital platform.

Working with Sheltec has been great. Their team is dynamic and very professional. The project is really cool, and while we were installing the system, we had people coming to us with questions about it, which was very encouraging.

Jeremy Ricard, Business Development US & Canada at Don Cicleto

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