Development of an Onboard Automatic Tire-Wear Warning System

Abstract:

Over worn tires in a vehicle endanger vehicle operation and driving safety. Vehicles with worn tires frequently have flat tires in highway, and then result in fatal traffic accidents. This research developed a RFID-based automatic tire-wear detection system. A tire-wear detection RFID cell, which contains RFID tag, isolation layer and noninterference layer, was buried in specified depth of a tire. The RFID cell can provide a signal to controller to issue a tire-wear warning if the tire is over worn. The wear detection system has benefits of small size, no battery, no maintenance, low cost and low false alarm. Bench test results confirm that this system can achieve real-time and effective detection for worn tires to enhance driving safety.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 284-287)
• Pages: 1821-1825
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.284-287.1821
• Online since: January 2013
• Authors: Yao Jung Shiao, Chi Wei Shiao, Chi Shan Shiao
• Keywords: Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), Tire Wear, Wear Detection

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