Pushing the TPMS Boundary

Pushing the TPMS boundaries – Heavy transportation challenges can be met with ATLAS TPMS. Here’s a little insight into our latest install. Gary Brierley – December 2022

Like all machinery of giant scale, the parts to make up the wind turbines located around the globe still have to be transported safely by road and often to remote places to be erected.

For nearly five years we have consistently demonstrated, with the first generation classic product, that  the ATLAS solution is easy to fit, easy to use and at a very affordable price.  All this whilst ensuring accurate & clean data is readily available to the user. After all the data does belong to the customer and they need it to efficiently manage their resources. Our recently released second generation ATLAS solution offers much more than TPMS and enables monitoring of many tyres whether the trailer is powered or unpowered.

Our Dutch haulier had been unable to find a connected TPMS solution for many years that would deliver the functionality previously mentioned alongside the scale of the technical challenges for each of their prime movers and trailers, including:

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Regular consumers of tyres for their fleet, particularly the technical sizes, will have also noticed the extended delivery times for them. This is also leading to an increase in circumstances were fleet operators have to increasingly look outside of their preferred brand, even for common sizes. This introduces a degree of uncertainty around load and tyre performance for the haulier, especially when undertaking heavy haulage operations. For example, some of today’s specialist haulage and load operators are demanding higher increases in tyre pressure for load carrying, (whilst trading off speed). Certain tyre manufacturers are able to meet this demand and provide tyres capable of meeting the needs of the load. What is not provided is the technology demanded by the operator to monitor these extreme pressures and tyre temperatures. If the tyres are not available and substitutes put on the fleet, then the ability to interact and have an insight into the health of the vehicle, (including tyre temperature and pressures) becomes of greater importance to the operator.

ATLAS technology is constantly pushing the TPMS boundary. I’m often asked, ‘well how many tyres will one ATLAS unit cover’? It’s usually met with a smile and the answer- ‘I don’t know we have yet to find the limitations on wheel positions for the unit’. Needless to say, that we are always up for the challenge of finding out how many.

One thing I really enjoy about working with Dutch customers is their pragmatic outlook to any challenge which is usually accompanied by quoting some ‘well-known Dutch phrase’. In this case the following quote told to me springs to mind:

“Zonder wind kan een molen niet draaien” (a windmill does not work without wind).

Put succinctly it means; something [“e.g. operational efficiency”] always needs “something” to work. Humans need food, water, and oxygen to function and without money, a bank is just a very fancy waiting room.

That “something” for me is ATLAS and an operator willing to embrace new technology to improve operational efficiency!

The Customer is equipping the ATLAS solution to their entire fleet, all in a matter of days.

We have successfully covered the challenge of scale, number of wheel positions, ease of fitment, ease of use (which included a full training and after sales service from our Dutch distributor) and all at a very affordable price.

ATLAS has been a well-kept secret in the industry, we’ve been busy building an ATLAS heritage to be proud of. A powerful & reliable connected IOT telematics system, with connected real time TPMS at its foundation. All designed, developed and manufactured in the UK by Tough Tech, with a global client base which includes some of the largest and smallest fleets in the world.

We are experts in our fields of connected technology, data and vehicle & machine application, including tyres, and are constantly pushing the boundaries of TPMS IOT vehicle and machine technology in the most demanding of environments. We are probably some of the friendliest experts too!