Wheel monitoring system and method

A wheel monitoring system for a vehicle, the vehicle comprising a plurality of wheels, and the system comprising:

• a plurality of tags mounted separately from the wheels to the vehicle and adapted to wirelessly transmit electromagnetic signals;
• a plurality of tag readers wherein one tag reader of the plurality of tag readers is mounted to each of the plurality of wheels and is adapted to wirelessly receive electromagnetic signals;
• wherein each tag of the plurality of tags comprises unique information identifying at least one of the tag and a mounting position of the tag, and wherein the tag is adapted to wirelessly transmit this unique information;
• and
• wherein each tag of the plurality of tags is mounted closer to one of the wheels than to any other of the wheels so that each tag of the plurality of tags is closest to only one of the wheels and so that a tag reader of the one of the wheels receives the unique information from the tag closest to the one of the wheels.

A method of locating mounting positions of wheels of a vehicle, comprising the steps of:

• providing a plurality of tag readers, wherein one tag reader of the plurality of tag readers is mounted to each of the wheels mounted to the vehicle;
• providing a plurality of tags, wherein each one of the plurality of tags is mounted separately from the wheels to the vehicle at one mounting position of the mounting positions of wheels;
• receiving with one of the tag readers, which is mounted to one of the wheels, information from one of the tags, which is mounted closest to the one of the tag readers, wherein the information indicates one or more of the mounting position of the one of the tags and a unique identification of the one of the tags;
• and
• identifying a mounting position of the one of the wheels based on the information received from the one of the tags.