Continental claims 'real-time' tread-depth monitoring advance
Print HANOVER, Germany—Continental A.G. has developed a technology it claims can provide real-time tire tread depth monitoring to fleet operators. Demonstrated in a pilot program with electric vehicles of car-sharing provider Share Now Denmark and developed in cooperation with project partner and telemetry specialist Traffilog Ltd., the cloud-based technology "connects" information from tire sensors and telemetry data of the fleet's cars with a proprietary algorithm. "As a result, Continental can predict tire tread depth in real time with an accuracy of below one millimeter," the Hanover-b...
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