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Michelin: chip tuning for tires
With RFID chips, the French manufacturer wants to improve driving experiences, ensure safety and help workshops.
Michelin: chip tuning for tires
Digitalization knows no boundaries.Michelin wants to renew all of its car tires by 2023. And withRFID chips. These are vulcanized into the tires and - similar to a fuel gauge - can provide information from the tireReport tire condition to the vehicle. But integrating RFID technology into tires can do even more. In particular, this technology enables improved tire management over its entire service life, from the factory to the end of the tire's life, and signals the condition of the car tire to the maintenance systems installed in the car at an early stage. The use of RFID also opens up many new possibilities in original equipment.
Condition monitoring will become increasingly important, especially with increasingly automated vehicles. Michelin has been delivering parts of its car tires with chips since mid-2019. The advantage of RFID technology is that it is relatively...inexpensive way to identify tiresthroughout its lifespan and is very robust compared to many other intelligent sensors.
Advantage for dealers and workshops
One advantage of RFID technology in the workshop is the avoidance of incorrect assembly when changing tires, as each chip has its own unique identifier. Thanks to tire identification using the RFID chip, the correct tire dimension can be transmitted to the board computer via the vehicle electronics. In the event of incorrect assembly, the board computer displays a corresponding warning. This saves the fitter time because when he reads the RFID chip, he sees the tire data directly on the screen of the RFID reader and does not have to check it by hand and eye. Ultimately, inventory levels can be controlled more efficiently by quickly reading out tire data and the need for new tires can be adjusted more easily.