K-PRESSURE™

  

K-PRESSURE™: the new generation tyre pressure monitoring systems

Tyre pressure monitoring systems provided by the car manufacturers are not always your best bet. These systems evaluate tyre pressure relative to the other tyres on the vehicle. So, if all four tyres were subjected to the same irregularity, nothing would be detected. The Pirelli system, on the other hand, monitors each tyre individually, providing the most accurate and efficient detection system.

Usually linked to the size of the tyre: they do not evaluate directly, but relative to a comparison with the other tyres fitted to the vehicle. With the result - improbable, but technically possible - that if all four tyres should be subjected to the same anomaly at the same time, that fact would not be diagnosed. The Pirelli systems work by surveying the tyre pressure directly and are divided into various systems. The company puts its weight behind each one.

The important new development starts on the basis of the long studies carried out by Pirelli. But the results are astonishingly new.

Pirelli's latest, the K-PRESSURE™, will be available soon on the replacement market and is built around a sensor system that is fitted to the tyre's valve. Inserted into the valve cap, the mechanism can be used for both conventional tyres and the Run Flat, and measures the eventual pressure changes in real time (different caps, dependant on the reference value). It then communicates any changes in one of three different ways:

• AcousticBlue: signal via wireless link to the mobile phone;
• Acoustic:signal via the onboard electronic management system;
• Optic: optical signal on the valve cap (white: OK - red alarm).

Apart from the AcousticBlue system, which immediately identifies the problem tyre, all other versions provide acoustic and visual messages, which identify the wheel fitted with the problem tyre.

 

Check out the advantages of all three grades of the K-PRESSURE™ system:

• Non-invasive: all fitted to the outside of the rim/tyre
• Minimum weight: from 3.5 to 6 grams: zero risk of imbalance
• Standard rim: an (ETRTO) valve is sufficient
• Plug and play: immediate fit: no adjustment required
• Maximum accuracy: auto-compensation for different external temperatures and pressures
• Maximum life: the battery inside the cap provides 5,000 hours of autonomy
  
  

Economy: K-PRESSURE™  has been developed as a family of modular products in order to optimise costs. The various versions are decidedly competitive in their pricing compared to the systems currently on the market and set a new standard in terms of price/benefit to the user, as is the case with K-PRESSURE™ Optic.