Tirestamp Adds Intelligence To TPMS Alerting

ROCHESTER HILLS, Mich. - Feb. 26, 2014 - PRLog -- TireStamp Inc. has added a unique and higher level of intelligence to each of its TireVigil™ TPMS products.  This new concept, branded as INTELLAlerting™, provides superior visibility of tire problems when they are occurring as well as when they are being corrected. It sends tire alerts only to personnel who can actually take action based on a vehicle’s location and operating status.

Most TPMS products set off an in-cab alarm when tire pressures exceed preset limits requiring the driver to immediately react to each TPMS alert. In most fleets, drivers are not responsible for servicing their tires and when they are, they often do not react properly or don’t realize the severity of the tire problem. TireStamp was the first TPMS company to address this critical issue by sending alerts to fleet personnel.  This feature has now been refined with INTELLAlerting™.

TireStamp’s TireVigil™ with INTELLAlerting™ operates in “sleep mode” when all the tires are within optimal, fleet customized parameters.  The system continuously monitors tires in the background and tire data is sent to the TireVigil™ cloud where it is stored and further analyzed. However, when a tire exceeds a fleet’s established threshold for underinflation or overheating, INTELLAlerting™ immediately kicks in and sends alerts to appropriate fleet personnel and/or its tire service provider based on vehicle location and operating status. Thereafter the system provides 100% visibility to all interested personnel in real time by closely monitoring the tire until the problem is rectified.

An important aspect of INTELLAlerting™ is its ability to recognize whether the vehicle is moving, parked in the fleet’s yard, or parked at another location. INTELLAlerting™ then sends an alert only to those people the fleet has identified as requiring the alerts in various situations.  For example, if a vehicle is traveling down the road and a tire exceeds a fleet’s established under-inflation threshold, there is no need to send an alert to the technician back in the fleet’s garage 500 miles away.  Instead the alert is directed to Dispatch or the fleet’s designated Emergency Road Service.  Or if the vehicle is parked in one of the fleet’s yards, only technicians within that fleet’s maintenance facility will receive the alert.  There is no value in alerting Dispatch or the Call Center so they are not advised of the problem.  And if the vehicle is parked in another distant location, the fleet can identify other appropriate personnel who should receive the alert and who can act upon it.  That may be Dispatch, a local tire dealer or someone else entirely.  Alert recipients can also be further filtered based on the severity of the tire alert.

"One of the biggest benefits of TireVigil™ TPMS with INTELLAlerting™ is that it doesn’t exasperate people with alerts that they can’t do anything about.  It directs alerts only to the right people based on their responsibility for handling the tire problem and the vehicle's location while taking into account whether or not the vehicle is running a revenue generating route” said TireStamp President, Peggy Fisher.  “This targeted alerting is completely customizable by the fleet, saving it time, money, and aggravation, while optimizing the servicing of its tires.”

TireVigil™ TPMS with INTELLAlerting™ will debut at the Technology & Maintenance Council’s (TMC) Annual Meeting & Transportation Technology Exhibition March 10-12^th in Nashville, TN.

TireVigil™ TPMS  products are built to meet the TPMS 2.0 standard (see www.tpms2.com) and incorporates wireless technologies that provide remote diagnostics for tires so that fleet personnel as well as drivers are aware of developing tire problems and can react appropriately. It is the only TPMS product that not only identifies tire problems long before they become safety issues but also provides the service organization and drivers with specific actions to take to resolve these problems as they develop.

The tremendous value of the TireVigil™ TPMS solution is in its cloud-based software which further analyses all tire and vehicle data before integration with other fleet back-end FMS systems. This provides the fleet with visibility not only of the tires on one vehicle, but all of the tires in its fleet.  In addition, TireVigil TPMS delivers valuable reports that help fleets actively manage their tire programs better such as a daily work order for technicians to use each morning to address all the problem tires at each fleet location before drivers begin their routes. Other reports enable fleet supervisors and managers to verify the quality and timeliness of the tire work performed, review automatic fleet tire pressure surveys and get an overview of vital fleet tire health statistics.

In addition, TireVigil™ TPMS provides awareness of the vehicle’s location and tracking capabilities.

If your TPMS doesn’t offer TPMS 2.0 features and have built-in INTELLAlerting™ maybe it’s time you gave TireStamp a call.