Welcome to Umbrella Share, a hackathon project by university of Waterloo students.
Umbrella Share lets people borrow umbrellas with their WATCard (A University of Waterloo student ID).
- Stations with umbrellas that can be borrowed
- Borrow and return anywhere
- Free for University of Waterloo Students
- Go up to one of the stations
- Tap your WATCard to the NFC reader
- Grab your umbrella and go
- At a later time, return the umbrella at any docking station when done
WATCards have a unique value stored on them. The backend takes in this unique value with a unique value that would be specific to each umbrella. It will allow someone to take a umbrella out if they do not have a umbrella checked out already. Anyone can return any umbrella.
Made by Kieran Beals, Jonathan Xiao, Peng Bai, William Chenyin
YouTube video explaining the concept: https://youtu.be/00XSZ7WWGQ0
This project won third place in the 2025 QoLI hackathon.