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Glossary

Term Definition
Station A docked location with a fixed number of slots
Dock / slot One physical lock at a station
Unlock Command that opens a dock so the rider can take the bike
Trip One rental from unlock to return
Fill level Ratio of bikes present to slots at a station
Availability snapshot Cached free-bike and free-slot counts per station, held in Redis
citycycle_app PostgreSQL role used by the Fastify process. Can read and write rows, cannot change the schema
citycycle_migrator PostgreSQL role used by the CI migration job
TimescaleDB Second managed database for e-bike battery samples. Not the trip ledger
battery_samples Timescale hypertable: bike_id, observed_at, percent
citycycle_telemetry Timescale role used by the Fastify telemetry module