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State-of-the-art tire pressure monitoring systems (TPMS) are wirelesssensor nodes mounted on the rim. Attaching the node on the inner liner of a tireallows sensing of important additional technical parameters, which may be used forimproved tracking and engine control, feedback to the power train and car-to-carcommunication purposes. Thus a significant step in car control appears feasible.Those new features come at a price: the maximum weight of the sensor is limited to5 g including package, power supply, and antenna. Robustness is required againstextreme levels of acceleration of up to 3,000 g (g = 9.81m/s2). The node size islimited to about 1 cm3 to avoid high force gradients due to device deformation andfinally, a 10-year power supply lifetime must be achieved. In this chapter we presenta self-sufficient tire-mounted wireless sensor node.
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• with a bulk acoustic wave (BAW)-based low-power FSK transceiver;
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• pioneered for an energy scavenger-based low-volume and low-weight powersupply; and
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• a 3D vertical chip stack for best compactness, lowest volume, and highest robustnessfor pressure, inertia, and temperature sensing.
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Herndl, T. (2011). Remote Sensing of Car Tire Pressure. In: Kaźmierski, T., Beeby, S. (eds) Energy Harvesting Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7566-9_4
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