Aperia Technologies has unveiled a new connected tire monitoring and self-inflation system compatible with both medium- and heavy-duty vehicles, as well as trailers. Named the Halo Connect i3, this system integrates tire monitoring and automatic inflation, expanding on the company’s previous tire management solutions.
Engineered to enhance fleet efficiency and vehicle uptime, the Halo Connect i3 boasts features such as integrated pressure sensing, remote pressure set point adjustment, configurable alerts, and personalized inflation settings.
“We’ve got a brand-new inflation offer, completely connected, which now unlocks the Halo solution for all medium-duty fleets and is a better and more performant product for our traditional heavy-duty product,” said Ralph Dimenna, Aperia’s chief commercial officer.
The product was introduced at a news conference on March 4 during the 2024 Technology & Maintenance Council Annual Meeting and Transportation Technology Exhibition.
“This brings a whole bunch of firsts to the market,” Dimenna said. “We are bringing dynamic set point configuration, monitoring, and adjustment. These are fully connected inflators. You can communicate to those inflators two ways through all the different protocols.”
He also highlighted that customer feedback emphasized the demand for tire management technology applicable to diverse types of assets.
“It works on trailers, it works on medium-duty assets, and it works on heavy-duty assets,” Dimenna said. “We now have a single, fleetwide, comprehensive program that we can offer to our customers.”
The latest Halo system provides wheel analytics for each wheel position, offering flexibility for customization at the individual terminal, fleet-wide, or even down to a single truck.
“You can see at any given time exactly what is going on with every single tire on the vehicle,” Dimenna said.
Taking into consideration environmental conditions, such as temperature, around the vehicle, the system ensures the prevention of false alerts.
Dimenna emphasized that Aperia’s algorithms, tested over nearly 100 billion real-world road miles in the past decade, underscore the system’s reliability and robustness.
“That gives you unparalleled capability to understand what is going on with the product, what is going on with your tire, what’s happening with that inflation, and how do I tune my maintenance program to take advantage of that,” he said.
Source: Transport Topics
