WheelRight Ltd - Novel automatic off vehicle tread depth and tyre inspection system

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Title
WheelRight Ltd - Novel automatic off vehicle tread depth and tyre inspection system

CoPED ID
eb38ca08-9a56-4ab4-87a0-2a081ec93527

Status
Closed


Value
£199,988

Start Date
Sept. 30, 2012

End Date
June 29, 2013

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Ensuring commercial fleets maintain road worthy tyres is not an easy task. Managers of large
fleets are often responsible for 1000’s of tyres. The penalty for operating a commercial
vehicle with non-compliant tyres is £5,000 and three penalty points for each illegal tyre. The
responsibility falls on the driver and the fleet operator. To run financially viable fleets
managers ensure their vehicles are on the road, minimising the time for inspection.
Unsurprisingly there is significant potential to improve the management of tyres within
commercial fleets to ensure they are correctly inflated, tread is within the legal limit, bald
patches and cuts and damage to sidewalls are identified. But current manual inspections are
costly, infrequent and often poorly done.
WheelRight Ltd is developing a road mounted device which, when driven over by a vehicle
with pneumatically inflated tyres, calculates the pressure in all of the vehicle’s tyres, as well
as measuring vehicle weight and load distribution. This integrated system is currently in
commercial trial. The next stage is to integrate automatic inspection of the tyre tread across
the circumference of each tyre and the sidewall. It is our goal to make the process of tyre
inspection automatic, specific to the tyre, accurate and easy to use
The potential benefit to society from improving tyre maintenance is significant. The
Department for Transport report that illegal, defective and under-inflated tyres were
responsible for more than 1,210 road casualties in Great Britain during 2010. An HGV fleet of
50 vehicles used on high mileage motorway routes could save over £400 pa for each vehicle
from better tyre tread and sidewall inspection. Tyres will no longer be sent to landfill before
their operational life is complete.
WheelRight technology has the potential to dramatically cut fuel and tyre waste and the
associated carbon emissions and increase road safety.

Wheelright Limited LEAD_ORG
Wheelright Limited PARTICIPANT_ORG

John Catling PM_PER

Subjects by relevance
  1. Tyres
  2. Vehicles
  3. United States of America
  4. Automotive engineering
  5. Emissions
  6. Roads
  7. Suspension (vehicles)
  8. Safety and security
  9. Vehicle inspection
  10. Motor vehicles
  11. Automation
  12. Cars

Extracted key phrases
  1. Tyre inspection system
  2. Well tyre tread
  3. Road worthy tyre
  4. Illegal tyre
  5. Compliant tyre
  6. Tyre waste
  7. Tyre maintenance
  8. WheelRight Ltd
  9. Vehicle tread depth
  10. WheelRight technology
  11. Inspection automatic
  12. Commercial fleet
  13. Vehicle weight
  14. Sidewall inspection
  15. Current manual inspection

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