Tire damage detection system and method

A tire damage detection system comprising:

• an acquisition device installed onboard a motor vehicle equipped with two or more wheels fitted with tires, and coupled to a vehicle bus of the motor vehicle;
• wherein the acquisition device is configured to acquire signals indicative of speeds of the motor vehicle and of a wheel of said motor vehicle and to output quantities indicative of the speeds of the motor vehicle and of the wheel thereof;
• a processing system storing a predefined tire damage model, and further configured to perform tire damage detection by
• receiving the quantities indicative of the speeds of the motor vehicle and of the wheel of said motor vehicle,
• computing, based on the quantities indicative of the speeds of the motor vehicle and of the wheel of said motor vehicle, a normalized wheel speed indicative of a ratio of the wheel speed to the motor vehicle speed, and
• detecting a potential damage to a tire of the wheel of the motor vehicle based on the predefined tire damage model and on the normalized wheel speed.

A cloud computing system that is wirelessly and remotely connected to an acquisition device installed onboard a motor vehicle equipped with two or more wheels fitted with tires, and coupled to a vehicle bus of the motor vehicle;

• wherein the cloud computing system stores a predefined tire damage model and is configured, in a tire damage detection stage, to:
• receive from the acquisition device quantities indicative of the speeds of the motor vehicle and of the wheel of said motor vehicle;
• compute, based on the quantities indicative of the speeds of the motor vehicle and of the wheel of said motor vehicle, a normalized wheel speed indicative of a ratio of the wheel speed to the motor vehicle speed;
• and
• detect a potential damage to a tire of the wheel of the motor vehicle based on the predefined tire damage model and on the normalized wheel speed.