SmarTire Partner Wins Product Development Contract

SmarTire Systems Inc’s strategic partner, Hyundai Autonet Company has been contracted by Hyundai Motor Corporation to develop commercial vehicle tyre pressure monitoring systems.The development contract will study and validate tire pressure monitoring on commercial vehicles including trucks and buses in the Korean domestic marketplace. The initial tyre pressure monitoring system will monitor up to 10 wheel positions and provide three warning levels to alert the driver of an under-inflated tyre or a high temperature problem.

The system will also indicate which tyre is affected and provide status information.”SmarTire will aggressively support this program providing the technology, components and data-logging capabilities,” says Erwin Bartz, VP Business Development at SmarTire Systems Inc. “What is really exciting is that this system will comply with strict Korean and Japanese regulatory – an industry first.