Wireless Brake and Tire Monitoring System (WBTMS)

Templeman Automation, LLC (TALLC) proposes an innovative implementation of wireless brake and tire monitoring with its TaB-TaP (Tire and Brake Temperature and Pressure) long-range wireless telemetry system. TaB-TaP represents a significant opportunity to augment the safety and efficiency of flight and ground testing of manned and unmanned aircraft. By extending proven, commercial SmartStem technology through a Phase I partnership with Crane Aerospace and Electronics (CAE), TALLC offers an easy-to-use, accurate, cost-effective and reliable WBTMS system. The extension of the SmartStem technology, dubbed the “SmartStem-MIL”, will offer multiple RF architectures to support both local and long-range communications suitable for military taxi-testing, as well as the measurement capability for an increased tire pressure range and true tire-wall temperature. The TaB-TaP system includes high-temperature thermocouple sensors, facilitating the direct measurement of brake temperature, and will be highly-survivable in harsh environments due to a light weight, shock-proof design. Additionally, TaB-TaP will offer Bluetooth-enabled flight-time cockpit readouts as well laptop- and PDA-based readouts suitable for ground crew monitoring from a safe standoff distance. The resulting architecture makes TaB-TaP acutely capable of augmenting current Air Force taxi-test tire and pressure monitoring methods.