Design Challenges:

Tyres on any vehicle face some very extreme conditions,so placing your components inside these is a technically challenging aspect of their design in fact some people say that this is exactly the place where an electronic system should not be installed.

one of our earliest problems was that we were unable to fit the sensing system to properly measure pressure in feasible way.We could get it in through a laborious process,but it would not make sense to do it from a customer standpoint or even allow us to do a proper demonstration.So while we were trying to figure this out one of our sensor vendors chief research snd development person invited me over and showed the facilities that they have it was during this tour that i discovered tha kind of test setup we actually needed to build the product we had in mind.

Another problem that they had was that the enclosure was built out of aluminium now aluminium has this problem that it absorbs all signals due to it acting like a faradays cage.When they placed the sensor inside it no signals could make their way out of the device.the team was very disappointed when this happed says he.While we were trying to figure out how to slove this problem.We come upon a material that had the characteristics of ABS pkastic and did not absorb the signals that our device needed to transmit.

Battery life is another area where they did some tuning and revisions to come up with the perfect sauce.For instance they designed a rabge extender in the device that has the consequence of reducing battery life.So that it only activates the extender when it is really needed.like in the case of a puncture where the car needs to alert the user as early as possible.

Another event that deactivates the range extender is when the car is moving so they used the accelerator to figure out if the car was moving and deactivate it if it was.It also changes the frequency of testing depending on different times of the day or usage history.They eventually left the range extender out of the first version of the product to control cst but there is a good chance that it would show up in a future version.

Testing is one area where i am facing a challenge.Normal tyre can only handle up to 50psi of pressure-nut i needed to test the sensor at 150psi or make sure it works in heavy duty tyres.I also needed to test the sensor while running  at 10000rpm so what i dis was to get access to a dynamo meter it was pretty expensive in our case since need to constantly try and improve the system.We are now trying to the set the system.We are now trying to might go for  a gyroscope intend of an accelerator for suspension and wheel aligment issues in figure product.