Tyre wear detection added to SRI’s Sensing Core

Sumitomo Rubber Industries (SRI) has announced the next evolution of Sensing Core, and says this latest update to its tyre sensing technology is “revolutionary”. In addition to tyre pressure, tyre load and load conditions, Sensing Core can now detect tyre wear.

Sensing Core is a proprietary SRI technology that draws upon the tyre maker’s knowledge and experience of dynamic tyre behaviour as well as specialised digital filtering technology capable of analysing and interpreting wheel speed signals that are transmitted as tyres rotate.

“Taking full advantage of the extensive know-how that we have cultivated over many years of developing high-performance tyres, with this latest advancement Sensing Core technology is now able to detect tyre wear levels by calculating tread rigidity based on wheel speed signals, engine data and other vehicle information,” explains SRI. “This technology not only alerts drivers about the wear condition of their tyres, but also allows for centralised management of tyre conditions over the cloud. As such, Sensing Core holds enormous potential for future applications among mobility service and transport service providers, ensuring the overall safety of their operations while greatly reducing maintenance costs.”

No additional sensors required

SRI points out a unique feature of Sensing Core, its utilisation of tyres as its sensors. This means it requires no additional sensor installation and is completely maintenance-free. Furthermore, by sharing wheel speed signal data and other pertinent information, Sensing Core also allows for cloud-based detection of potential issues at a regional level.

Sensing Core is a key technology within SRI’s Smart Tyre Concept, which the tyre maker launched in order to accelerate the development of tyres and peripheral services to better respond to the demands of CASE, MaaS and other trends that are already transforming the automotive industry.