For any commercial fleet, efficiency is one of the prominent criteria for successful operation.
Do you know that the tyres play a significant role in achieving the conventional vehicle performance and efficiency?
Vehicle safety and driver comfort are related directly to the proper condition of the tyres.
The majority of drivers don’t pay much attention to their tyres, and even forget to check the air pressure regularly.
If tyres are underinflated, it affects the performance of the vehicle including the safety. Longevity and load capacity.
To avoid unexpected disasters due to tyre failure, most of the vehicles were manufactured with upgraded high-tech features like Tyre Pressure Monitoring System (TPMS).
Tyre monitoring system improves operational performance of the vehicle, increases uptime, and saves money.
What are the benefits of TPMS? Is a vehicle equipped with TPMS safer than others? Let’s see some hidden benefits of technically upgraded TPMS function impacting vehicle operations.
How does a Tyre Pressure Monitoring System work?
The vehicles integrated TPMS ceaselessly and reliably monitor the tyres pressure in real-time.
It immediately notifies drivers when the tire pressure drops below the manufacturer’s recommended level of the air pressure (goes below the safe threshold) before disasters strike.
The tyre monitoring system detects discrepancies in the tires by illuminating a yellow cross-section (horseshoe) with an exclamation point on the dashboard of the vehicle’s instrument panel.
When the Tyre Pressure Monitoring System works correctly, it not only enhances the vehicle and passenger safety on the road but also improves vehicle maneuverability, reduces braking distance, decreases tires wear off, and increases fuel economy.
What are the benefits of TPMS?
GPS integrated with the Tyre Pressure Monitoring System gives direct warnings to fleet managers regarding vehicle tire damages and helps in vehicle maintenance.
The GPS and TMS enhance the fleet management business performance and uplevel in its safety aspects.
Some astounding benefits of TPMS:
- Enhance Road Safety
Under-inflated tyres are unsafe, and cause unpredictable, erratic driving patterns on highway bends, and bumpy roads. This leads to sudden accidents and injuries to both drivers and passengers.
To save vehicles from unexpected situations, the Tyre Pressure Monitoring System keeps an eye on tyres air pressure and updates information ceaselessly, and ensures maximum safety on roads.
With the help of GPS and TPMS, drivers can easily locate and visit nearby repair shops and can immediately fix the damaged tyres. TPMS has become an integral and invaluable safety feature in recent years.
- Fuel efficiency or increased MPG
For any journey, tyres with air pressure below a safe threshold require a large amount of fuel or more gasoline.
This can be monitored by Fuel Monitoring System.
When the vehicle is driven with accurate and proper inflation, it reduces fuel consumption, and cost savings and also leads to maximum miles per gallon (MPG).
- No more manual tyre repairs and monitoring
Before the Tyre Pressure Monitoring System, drivers had to manually monitor tyre inflation at regular intervals with manual gauges.
As a result, drivers must kneel down to each tyre and use physical strength to remove the valve stem cap and insert the pressure gauge.
Checking the air pressure on one tyre takes 20 minutes and most results are inaccurate.
The newly upgraded Vamosys Tyre pressure monitoring systems alert drivers immediately when the air pressure falls and help them to fix and save time, and also avoid dangerous accidents.
- Extend the tyres life
The tyre failures are due to the under-inflated tyres. When the tyres are not inflated up to the safe threshold level, it generates thermal or mechanical overload.
This directly results in damaged sidewalls of the tyres, breakdowns, and tyre disintegration.
The Tyre Monitoring system helps vehicles from further damage and saves them from all such incidents by sending real-time information.
This information saves tyres costs, and time investing in repairing, and optimizing the tyres characteristic performance and also extends the life of each tyre.
- Minimize the tyre wear
Underinflation is the contributing factor to irregular tyre wear and removal many times. If the tyre is underinflated by 2 percent, it can exhibit tyres issues and removal.
Losing 2 percent of air pressure every month can change the worn valve stem and temperature which increases the further loss of pressure.
Nail holes can occur and other damage can occur to tyres due to a loss of pressure. TPMS significantly extends tyre life and improves fuel economy.
- Cost efficiency
The tyre monitoring system helps fleet owners in saving money in different ways. It decreases downtime of the vehicle and saves from repairing and fuel costs.
- Good for the environment
When the tyres are not properly maintained or under-inflated, it emits more CO2 (Carbon monoxide) than usual.
For instance, if the vehicle tyre is underinflated by 0.3 bars, then the vehicle consumes more fuel – approximately 15% percent more than usual and releases more carbon monoxide.
A Tyre Pressure Monitoring System installed in vehicles sends real-time tyre condition and air pressure data to the drivers and further prevents the emission of hazardous carbon monoxide.
The TPMS makes vehicle owners more responsible for the environment and lives of the earth.
- Better insurance rates
With the Tyre Pressure Monitoring System, vehicles can be well-maintained and saved from accidents on the roads, which leads to lower the insurance premiums for the vehicle each year and also saves lots of money.
There are many technical advantages to a Tyre Pressure Monitoring System, including:
- Optimizing the performance of the tyre characteristics – from braking to hydroplaning protection
- Sending warnings signals regarding speed on highways and bumpy roads
- Compatibility with Continental mechanical solutions
- Scalable functionality, systems are built with new architecture
TPMS is considered the most essential safety feature in every vehicle, aside from the seatbelt and GPS monitoring.
Knowing that the tyre is monitored 24/7 provides security to the vehicle, but also gives drivers confidence to reach their destination without mishaps.
