An August 27 article in the RFID Journal featured a joint effort by Phase IV and Crane Aerospace to implement an RFID-based temperature and pressure sensor on commercial aircraft tires.
Crane’s solution is a sensor that replaces the wheel’s standard fill valve. The company (or its resellers) provides the sensor to aircraft manufacturers—who then fit the gauge into tires for customers—as well as to the aircraft operators themselves. The gauge is interrogated via a handheld RFID reader that captures temperature and pressure data, along with the sensor’s unique ID number. The technology developed by Crane includes readers and tags supplied by Colorado wireless sensor company Phase IV Engineering.
Read the article on rfidjournal.com and see the video on our demos page.