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Based on ARM9
A.Harris Stephenraj*1, Mr. P. Anantha Christhu Raj*2, G. Baskar*3
*
Department of Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering,
Karunya University, Coimbatore,
Tamilnadu-641 114, India
1
harris.stephenraj@gmail.com
2
ganesh.baskar@gmail.com
3
anantha.be@gmail.com
Abstract An Intelligent Tyre Pressure mandatory use of TPMS. The TPMS mandated by
Monitoring System (TPMS) is presented. The tyre burst the US law must warrn the driver when a tyre is
used to cause fatal traffic accidents, threatening the safety
under-inflated by as much as 25%.
of drivers and property, in cognizance of this problem, we
have come up with an intelligent tyre safety pre-alarm
system. The hardware components of tyre pressure These systems report real-time tire-pressure
monitoring system are introduced. The whole system is information to the driver of the vehicle, either via
composed of a host module and four wireless sensors. The a gauge, a pictogram display, or a simple low-
four wireless sensors are installed in tyres, monitoring the pressure warning light.
pressure and temperature of tyres in real time and
sending them to center monitoring host through wireless
module (Zigbee).The read pressure value is converted to A. SYSTEM COMPOSITION
digital value and transmitted to the host module in the The intelligent tyre safety pre-alarm
dashboard. The host module gives a visible and audible
alarm to the driver about the tyre condition. system using direct style monitoring is composed
of 4 monitoring modules and a host module. Tire
Key wordsTyre pressure, ARM9, Zigbee pressure monitoring module with sensor and
ZigBee are installed in tyre, taking charge of
I.INTRODUCTION monitoring the pressure of tyre and transmitting
this data to host module through ZigBee
Tire Pressure Monitoring helps drivers to technology; The host module with ZigBee
properly maintain their vehicle tires, improves transceiver, audible and visual alarm and LCD
vehicle safety and aid fuel efficiency. The module are installed in the dashboard. The ZigBee
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration transceiver takes up data from 4 tyre pressure
(NHTSA) in the US has estimated that 533 monitoring modules and show pressure of 4 tyres
fatalities per annum are caused by tire defects in on LCD module visually so that the driver can
road accidents. Adding TPMS to all vehicles could grasp pressure and temperature state of each tyre.
avoid 120 of the 533 yearly victims and save as The host module gives out audible and visible
many as 8,400 injuries every year. Scurit signals to driver for warning of pulling up and
Routire (the French Institution for Road Safety) taking relevant measure to make sure the vehicles
estimates that 9% of all fatal road accidents are driving stability.
attributable to tire under-inflation and the German The host module is based on ARM9 controller.
DEKRA estimated that 41% of accidents with It is very easy to extend other functions because of
physical injuries are linked to tire problems. Tyres the abundant resource on ARM9, for example, car
leak air naturally and over a year a typical new tire telephone, GPS navigation, video reverse radar
can lose between 3 and 9 psi. As most drivers only and car multimedia. The low power consumption
check their tyres at service intervals and when feature of Zigbee and ARM processor makes it
problems occur there is significant scope for fuel more suitable for automobiles.
savings and efficiencies.
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III. ZIGBEE