Wheelright Limited

In the EU the tyre population exceeds 1,250 million tyres valued at €165 billion. Up to 20% of tyres have tread depths below the EU legal limit of 1.6mm posing a significant road safety risk and cost to the economy through breakdowns and road closures. Insufficient remaining tread on tyres leads to longer stopping distances and increased accidents. Encour...

To use advanced machine-learning techniques to analyse images of tyres, retrieve manufacturer data, identify abnormal tyres and create a data warehouse of tyre information.

Ensuring commercial fleets maintain road worthy tyres is not an easy task. Managers of large fleets are often responsible for 1000’s of tyres. The penalty for operating a commercial vehicle with non-compliant tyres is £5,000 and three penalty points for each illegal tyre. The responsibility falls on the driver and the fleet operator. To run financially vi...

Ensuring commercial fleets maintain road worthy tyres is not an easy task. Managers of large fleets are often responsible for 1000’s of tyres. The penalty for operating a commercial vehicle with non-compliant tyres is £5,000 and three penalty points for each illegal tyre. The responsibility falls on the driver and the fleet operator. To run financially vi...

Maintaining correct tyre pressures is done poorly and irregularly. It is our goal to make that process automatic; specific to the tyre, accurate and easy to use. Results from Bridgestone Tyres annual safety campaign concludes that tyre under-inflation is costing the EU €2.8 billion each year in wasted fuel adding 4.8 million tons of CO2 emissions; such is...