Tire identification gate and method for long multi-wheeled motor vehicles such as trucks, semitrucks, road trains, buses or the like

Computer-implemented method for efficiently identifying tire configuration of motor vehicles having tires fitted, each, with a respective wireless identification device, the method comprising:

• receiving identification data indicative of the unique identifiers of the tires positioned on a left side of a given motor vehicle of said motor vehicles;
• receiving identification data indicative of the unique identifiers of the tires positioned on the right side of the given motor vehicle;
• grouping the received identification data into a left-side data group and a right-side data group;
• sorting the identification data in the left-side group and the identification data in the right-side group according to time order of acquisition;
• for either the left-side group or the right-side group:
• iteratively applying a K-means clustering method to the sorted identification data thereby obtaining, at each iteration, a respective identification data clustering representing a respective candidate tire configuration of the given motor vehicle;
• evaluating the obtained identification data clusterings by a Davies-Bouldin Index metric thereby determining an estimated tire configuration of the given motor vehicle;
• determining an actual tire configuration of the given motor vehicle by evaluating the estimated tire configuration by an Edit Distance metric;
• determining a respective position, in the determined actual tire configuration, of each tire on the side associated to the determined group and assigning to said position the respective unique identifier based on said determined actual tire configuration and on the sorted identification data;
• determining a respective position, in the determined actual tire configuration, of each tire on the opposite side of the given motor vehicle and assigning to said position the respective unique identifier based on said determined actual tire configuration and on the sorted identification data.