Confirmation of tyre monitoring device status
AssigneeAirbus Operations GmbH
InventorAndrew Bill
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Abstract
A method, apparatus and system are disclosed in which an indication given by at least one tyre monitoring device is confirmed by input received from another source is disclosed. The method includes causing, by the control device, at least one tyre monitoring device mounted on a wheel to measure a tyre pressure and to indicate a status using an indicator provided on the tyre monitoring device; receiving, from the at least one tyre monitoring device, data representative of the status of the at least one tyre monitoring device; receiving input representative of the status indicated on the indicator of the at least one tyre monitoring device; comparing the received data representative of the status with the received input representative of the status; and taking action based on the result of the comparing.
Claims16
A method for a control device of a tyre monitoring system comprising:
- causing, by the control device, at least one tyre monitoring device mounted on a wheel to measure a tyre pressure and to indicate a status using an indicator provided on the tyre monitoring device;
- receiving, by the control device, from the at least one tyre monitoring device, data representative of the status of the at least one tyre monitoring device;
- receiving input at the control device representative of the status indicated on the indicator of the at least one tyre monitoring device;
- comparing, by the control device, the received data representative of the status indicated on the indicator of the at least one tyre monitoring device with the received input representative of the status;
- and
- taking action based on the result of the comparing.
A method for a tyre monitoring device comprising a wireless communication interface and an indicator, the method comprising:
- receiving, via the wireless communication interface, a first instruction from another device;
- responsive to the first instruction, carrying out a pressure measurement of a tyre associated with the tyre monitoring device;
- transmitting, via the wireless communication interface, data of the pressure measurement to the another device;
- activating the indicator to provide an indication based on the pressure measurement;
- receiving, via the wireless communication interface, a second instruction from the control device after the activating the indicator;
- responsive to the second instruction, deactivating the indicator;
- receiving, via the wireless communication interface, data representative of a status of a plurality of other tyre monitoring devices associated with a same vehicle;
- and,
- wherein the activating the indicator to provide an indication is based on both the pressure measurement and the received data representative of the status.
A tyre monitoring system comprising:
- a control device comprising a wireless communication interface and an input interface;
- and
- a plurality of tyre monitoring devices each configured to be mounted on a wheel of a same vehicle and each comprising a pressure sensor, an indicator and a wireless communication interface;
- wherein the control device is configured to:
- cause one or more of the plurality of tyre monitoring devices to measure a tyre pressure using the pressure sensor, indicate an inflation status on the indictor, and transmit data of the inflation status to the control device;
- receive input confirming an indication state of the indicator;
- and
- responsive to receiving the input confirming an indication state, cause the indicator of all of the one or more of the plurality of tyre monitoring devices to be deactivated.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.