New P.S.I. Digital Sensor Offers Actual-Time Visibility of Wheel-Finish Temperatures – Upkeep
David Craig, P.S.I. advertising and marketing supervisor, stated the corporate’s new ThermAlert app can assist fleets determine the foundation reason for wheel points and methods to resolve them.
Jack Roberts
Stress Programs Worldwide (P.S.I.) launched its Digital ThermALERT sensor that gives real-time wheel-end temperature visibility by a telematics communication portal. The corporate stated its unique patented commonplace ThermALERT alerts customers to elevated wheel-end temperatures that might trigger injury, wheel loss, or hearth and extra roadside calls if not addressed early. That sensor has been commonplace on the P.S.I ATIS product since 2017.
Digital ThermALERT, P.S.I. stated at a Feb. 26 press briefing on the annual assembly of the American Trucking Associations’ Expertise & Upkeep Council in Orlando, “supplies all the advantages of conventional ThermALERT plus full visibility of wheel-end temperatures via P.S.I.’s TireView LIVE portal or by one among their telematics integration companions resembling Street Prepared from Clarience Applied sciences.”
The corporate stated that real-time reporting from Digital ThermALERT aids in figuring out the conventional wheel-end working temperature of a person’s tools and the flexibility to research wheel-end historical past. It will probably additionally assist determine tools or upkeep points resembling a dragging brake or bearing problem, which then will be scheduled for service earlier than injury can happen. The alert activation stage will be custom-made by the person relying on tools and private choice.
Digital ThermALERT is optimally positioned to learn the temperature contained in the spindle finish on the wheel bearings and minimizes the consequences of exterior thermal influences. The sensor has a replaceable battery with a conductor wire that is fed by the axle finish and connected to a modified PSI spindle plug.
“ThermALERT can even assist fleets decide the foundation reason for a failure, which is essential,” stated David Craig, P.S.I. advertising and marketing supervisor. “We had one buyer, for instance, who had a batch of trailers with wheels that have been approach overheating — properly over regular working situations. By utilizing ThermALERT, they have been in a position to hint the trailers again to a particular restore facility and a technician who was simply not adjusting the brakes appropriately. They have been in a position to get that technician the coaching he wanted and glued the issue.”
Additionally launched on the P.S.I. press convention:
- ATIS/MTIS Driver Video: Driver video explains system operation and what to do when the system indicator gentle illuminates. It’s viewable on cellular units by way of QR code or desktop. A brand new decal with a QR code will be ordered from P.S.I. for retrofit placement on current property. New orders will obtain an up to date system decal with the QR code.
- TireView LIVE Cellular App: As a result of launch April 1, will likely be accessible for Apple/Android units, placing “all of the options and advantages of the TireView LIVE portal within the palm of the hand:
- Drill down by automobile kind, terminal or area
- Knowledge analytics platform for thorough tire evaluation
- Help pre-trip tire inspections and post-trip evaluation
- Type and share knowledge to make finest selections about PM and in-transit repairs
- Handy over-the-air (OTA) updates and sensor pairing by capturing sensor QR codes utilizing cellular system digicam
