Yokohama reveals vision for passenger car tyre sensors

Yokohama has revealed SensorTire Technology Vision, its medium- and long-term technological development vision for passenger car tyre sensors.

It says the aim of the SensorTire Technology Vision is to support mobility for people from the ground up and contribute to lasting safety and peace of mind while addressing new changes in mobility demand. It will provide data obtained from SensorTires (Internet of Things [IoT] tyres) fitted with sensing functionality to drivers and to diverse external enterprise operators.

The company will build in stages sensing functions and data analysis and prediction technology suited to each service, and it will broaden the range of applicability of the sensing functions.

An air-pressure alert service for individual vehicle owners and for vehicle operation management companies will be the initial trial, and a tread wear detection function will be added by 2023. This will allow for providing notifications when tyre rotation is due and for providing fleet operators with proposals for efficient tyre inspection plans.

In the longer term, Yokohama says it will move to connect tyre data with map data and with traffic-congestion, weather, and other data from vehicles in vehicles’ destination areas to propose safe driving routes as the provision of new value-added information, and the company also aims to provide support for safe and peace-of-mind vehicle-operation management, as in autonomous-driving vehicles and at companies that provide services in connection with ‘MaaS’.