WHEELS User Guide

WHEELS (Wireless Hazard Early-warning Emergency Location System) is a two-part platform:

• A mobile app (iOS & Android) that turns your phone into a motorcycle computer, recording 90+ data points at up to 10 Hz.
• A web dashboard for ride playback, analytics, team management, real-time maps, and billing.

Together they give riders and teams professional-grade safety monitoring, ride analysis, and coordination tools.

1. Create an account – Sign up on the web, pick a plan (all plans include a 14-day free trial).
2. Set up your profile – Go to My Account, update your name, and set your team’s home location.
3. Download the WHEELS app – Available on the Apple App Store and Google Play.
4. Calibrate your phone mount – In the app, run the 3D calibration so lean-angle readings are accurate.
5. Invite team members – Head to the dashboard home page, enter emails, and choose roles.
6. Go ride! – Tap Record in the app. Your ride uploads automatically.

The top of My Account shows your current plan, billing status, and team slot usage.

• Plan badge – Active tier and billing cycle.
• Paid / Used / Available slots – A quick snapshot of team capacity.
• Manage Subscription – Opens the Stripe billing portal.

Team Name – Owners can rename the team.

Home Location – Set a base location for the default map center and local weather.

• Name & Email – Update and save.
• Password – Change with current + new password (8–100 characters).
• Activity Log – Recent events with IP addresses and timestamps.
• Delete Account – Permanent, requires password confirmation.

1. Enter the person’s email address.
2. Choose a role: Member or Owner.
3. Click Invite Member.

Invitations expire after 7 days.

• View Profile – Full-screen modal with details, vehicles, emergency contacts, medical info.
• Edit – Edit your own profile; Owners can edit any member.
• Delete User – Owners only. Permanent.

Organize members into sub-teams with custom names, colors, and descriptions. Groups integrate with the Maps page for filtering and auto-zoom.

Each rider can store up to 5 vehicles. Use Database Mode to search our catalog of 38,000+ motorcycles with full specs, or Manual Mode for custom builds.

Store emergency contacts, blood type, allergies, medications, and insurance on each profile. This info appears instantly in the Maps emergency modal.

Browse recorded trips via the calendar. Owners can view any member’s rides. Each ride card shows date, duration, max speed, max lean, data points, and safety score.

Load Limited (1,000 points) for quick previews or Load All for full analysis. A real-time progress bar tracks the loading.

A 3D motorcycle model replays your ride with real telemetry. Controls: play/pause, skip events, 0.5×–4× speed, data overlays. Mouse to orbit, scroll to zoom, right-click to pan.

The Analytics page displays 14 interactive charts that update in sync with the 3D playback. Hover any data point for exact values.

A six-axis radar chart capturing your unique riding fingerprint: Max Speed, Avg Lean, Max G-Force, Hard Brakes, Sharp Turns, and Safety Score.

• G-Force vs Heading – Polar chart of G-force by compass direction.
• Energy Dynamics – Kinetic & potential energy over time.
• G-Force Vectors – Longitudinal vs. lateral G radar.
• Speed & Acceleration – Velocity line + acceleration bars.
• Lean Angle vs Time – Roll angle throughout the ride.
• G-Force Over Time – Total G magnitude timeline.
• Temperature – Ambient temperature from weather data.
• Cornering Dynamics – Lean vs. speed scatter plot.
• Safety Analysis – Stacked bar of hard brakes, sharp turns, falls.
• Elevation Profile – Altitude area chart.
• Braking, Power, Suspension – Metric panels (full charts coming soon).

Every ride starts at 100 points. Deductions: hard brake −5, sharp turn −3, speed violation −2. Levels: 100 = Perfect, 80+ = Low Risk, 60–79 = Medium, <60 = High Risk.

For riders who want the math behind the numbers.

Lean Angle is computed three ways: quaternion-based (preferred, uses sensor-fusion orientation + mount calibration matrix), gravity-vector (atan2 of lateral vs. vertical gravity), or logged (pre-calculated on device). The quaternion method is immune to centripetal acceleration errors.

G-Force uses a motorcycle-specific Kalman filter to suppress engine vibration, then subtracts gravity to isolate dynamic forces, decomposed into longitudinal and lateral components.

Speed normalization auto-detects units (m/s, km/h, mph) and converts to a consistent base. Altitude similarly normalizes between feet and meters.

Energy: Kinetic = ½mv², Potential = mgΔh. Bounce detection flags and smooths physically implausible accelerometer spikes.

All team members on a Google Map, refreshing every 30 seconds. Color-coded status markers, info windows with GPS, address, battery, and ride count.

Emergency modal with medical info, one-tap Call 911, Call/Email emergency contact, precise GPS coordinates, and full-screen red warning mode.

Switch between Users and Groups views. Selecting a group highlights members, auto-zooms, and dims non-members.

All plans include every feature. They differ in included riders and add-on cost:

• Rider – $4.99/mo (1 rider), $1.99/mo per extra.
• Team – $9.99/mo (5 riders), $0.79/mo per extra.
• Club – $19.99/mo (15 riders), $0.49/mo per extra.

Available on Apple App Store and Google Play. Collects 90+ data points at up to 10 Hz. Sign in with your web credentials.

Reads from accelerometer, gyroscope, magnetometer, GPS, barometer, and ambient light sensor.

Run the in-app calibration with your motorcycle on a level surface to compute a transformation matrix that corrects all future readings. Enables ±0.5° lean-angle accuracy.

Real-time crash and fall detection with automatic location sharing and emergency contact alerts.

High-contrast UI for outdoor visibility, TRON RED mode for night-vision preservation, and glove-friendly oversized controls.

WHEELS does not collect personal information to share with third parties. Data is stored securely and only accessible to you and your team.

Passwords hashed with bcrypt, all APIs rate-limited, sign-up protected by Cloudflare Turnstile CAPTCHA, and input sanitization against XSS.

Use the Application Support page (in the dashboard sidebar) to send us a message. We’ll respond as quickly as possible.

• Use Load Limited for quick previews, Load All for deep dives.
• Set up Groups for organized rides – the map auto-zooms to your group.
• Enable emergency contacts before you ride.
• Compare Ride DNA shapes across rides to track improvement.