How Smart Tires Are Revolutionizing Road Safety

The automotive smart tyre market represents a $300B $1T customer-experience-based market and enables million dollar-per-day applications across billions of people. It also promises to enhance safety for the driver.

Sensors can detect a range of conditions, including temperature, tread wear, pressure and road surface, and report them to the driver or to the car’s maintenance system when they indicate a possible cause for a safety or efficiency problem.

Improved Safety

With Smart Tires, drivers do not have to spend their time scrutinising their tire gauges, as the real-time tire information goes directly into their car, and somewhat reduces the agency on the driver to maintain proper tire pressure and temperature to avoid dangerous accidents while also helping them with proactive maintenance.

For a fleet manager, having smart tyres that send warnings to the driver about any variation in the road surface can be very advantageous, and can ensure the quick identification of problems, which would otherwise become a costly repair or shutdown of the operations.

Smart tyres will also communicate with other vehicles on the roadway to warn of coming surface hazards, and a lead vehicle in a platoon be positioned at the start of a distressed section toward the outside to minimise pavement damage, which can be reduced by 30-40 per cent.

Reduced Maintenance Costs

In addition to the fact that smart tyres are in many ways superior to standard tyres – being able to monitor their state at all times and providing this information in real time to drivers and fleet managers if problems with the tyres are detected before they lead to accidents (which, of course, would be a great help in cutting maintenance expenses).

In modern tire sensors have become smaller and more accurate, and they can now effectively measure different tire parameters with greater precision, providing more accurate feedback. This range of information includes tyre pressure, temperature and tread wear. The data can be sent back to the car via an embedded telemetry device, which transmits the information back out to the cloud where they are analysed using ML algorithms.

Some of the higher-priced smart tyres have ‘wear predictors’ that tell the driver when the rubber on the tyres has been used up — and might even warn them about replacement earlier than when actual tread wear has happened — but wearing out tyres is not something that drivers should look to their in-car computers to tell them about. Drivers should perform their own regular inspections.

Increased Fuel Efficiency

Government initiatives promoting vehicle safety standards and consumer consciousness concerning sophisticated vehicle technology has also stimulated demand for smart tyres, while the widespread adoption of exotic electric and autonomous automobiles in the usa has also stimulated demand even further.

These smart tires contain sensor technology that allows real-time analysis of tyre parameters such as temperature, pressure and tread wear, and instantaneous transmission of this data to a cloud-based analytics platform or telematics solution where it can be evaluated to help drive vehicle efficiency.

Cerebrum sensors alert drivers when tyres are underinflated, enabling them to avoid fuel wastage and reduce operational expenses. Fleet managers can use real-time data to reduce downtime, and to track the performance of their trucks; this allows them to better optimise operations while minimising the impact on our roads.

Enhanced Driving Experience

Smart tyres, for instance, collect road conditions information (temperature, pressure, wear), and send this valuable data directly to onboard systems or to cloud data portals to enhance performance, safety and reliability.

Thanks to smart tire technology, using it in big fleet businesses will help improve fleet management and get rid of maintenance issues and fuel inefficiency.

Similarly, positions in the road can be recognised from footage using technology, which drivers could then react to accordingly by changing driving behaviour to avoid hazardous situations. Smart tires could recognise black spots on the road indicating surface defects/low levels of friction and should be avoided, respectively. Time savings are also an important aspect. Time savings can provide automotive and logistics companies with an enormous competitive advantage over competitors.