A recent search of the web turns up that checking tyre pressures is one of the most unwanted jobs facing owner / drivers of motor vehicles. Despite being a simple check to perform it it often forgot or rather bypassed with
a visual inspection with the possability of some percussive testing...
(go on, admit it, how many of you have kicked the tyres of a car?)
When a car tyre fails it is bad enough, but walk down the hard shoulder
of a freeway /motorway/ highway and soon enough you will come across
substantial chunks of rubber from a truck tyre, roughly the size of dinner plate wieghing close to kilo they don't bounce well on impact, particularly
with a windshield. I know, time is money to trucker / haulage operator but checking tyre pressures is a task that should be perfomed with each new load, not once a week or month or five minutes before the annual government inspection.
By now I've upset all the truckers, well let me really stick in your craw now, I analyse tachograph records, so like Santa I know whose been naughty this year :lol:
Anyhow griping aside...a suggestion for a project
The challenge....
to design a device that can measure tyre pressure, mounted internally to the wheel rim or externally on the valve and relay this information to a display in the cab of the vehicle.
Low power consumption a must for battery powered operation,
inductive power transfer solutions are more than welcome
and bear in mind in commercial operations tractor units are
not dedicated to a particular trailer.