Tire Pressure Monitoring System Vendor Support

You can integrate with a supported Tire Pressure Monitoring System (TPMS) to track and monitor tire conditions across your fleet. 

• Pressure Pro
• Doran

How it works

Samsara offers several dashboard features that surface tire condition data:

• Vehicle Show Page Summary

• Tire Condition Graph and Panel

• Tire Condition Maintenance Page

• Tire Condition Alerts

Vehicle Show Page Summary

To arrive at a particular unit’s vehicle show page, select the unit from the List view of the Fleet page.

Once hardware installation is successfully complete, the Tire Condition will appear under the Sensors section of the vehicle show page.

The Tire Condition surfaces the most recent tire condition reported. The number of tires associated with the assets are reported underneath Tire Condition. In the example above, there is one tire with extreme over pressure reported.

Hovering over the trailer image under the Sensors section reveals the View Details option, which expands a visual representation of the trailer with each tire condition value and a timestamp detailing the last time the tire diagnostic was reported.

The visual representation of the trailer is also accessible by clicking on the status link located at the right of Trailer Tire Condition under the Sensors section.

When hovering over a tile in the trailer display (the tiles represent tire positioning on a trailer as indicated by the user via their PressurePro gateway), the users are presented the following data:

• Axle number (Axle 1, Axle 2, etc)

• Tire position (Right Outer, Left Inner, etc)

• Timestamp of last received/surfaced sensor data

• Tire condition (Normal, Critical, etc)

• Pressure (Current or last received value)

• Set Point (Current or last received value)

• Temperature (Current or last received value)

The panel that surfaces when hovering over the tires shows each of the tires in their intended configuration - the PSI and temperature are displayed for each individual tire.

To inspect the recent history of a trailer’s tire pressure, users have the ability to view tire pressure history in the vehicle show page with an overlay graph. On the left hand panel, users can click on the sparkline to the right of Tire Condition.

Once selected, an overlay graph will appear above the map. Users can select individual or multiple tires to view at the same time.

Users can also hover over the graph to view time-specific values for pressure, pressure set point, and temperature. As users hover over specific areas of the graph, the asset location on the map will adjust to indicate its recorded location during that timeframe.

This data on the graph is also exportable. By selecting the Download CSV option at the bottom right hand corner of the graph, users can download pressure, pressure set point, and temperature data from one or more tires. The downloaded file will include information of all selected tires for the specified timerange.

Tire Condition Maintenance Page

To access the Tire Condition page, select Maintenance from the Fleet list view and locate Tire Condition from the list on the left side of the page:

 

The top of the Maintenance page displays an Overall asset tire status that summarizes tire conditions across the fleet:

In cases when multiple tire conditions are reported for an asset, the most critical condition is reported.
For example, if an asset contains Cautionary and Critical tire conditions, the asset will be marked as Critical.

The asset list can be filtered by criticality by either clicking on a tire condition on the Overall asset tire status or by using the Tire Status drop-down menu.

Underneath the Overall asset tire status, all assets are listed with their current location, current driver, and the most critical tire status. Selecting an asset from the list reveals the axle, tire position, pressure, set point, temperature and tire statuses of all tires attached to the asset:

 

If a Tire Status is selected, the Expand All/Collapse All option becomes available. Selecting it will expand or collapse all of assets in the list:

The top-right of the page contains a menu that allows the user to export the report to a CSV file or output a PDF to print the report.

The Export to CSV option outputs a CSV that contains the following columns for all tires in the current view, applying any filter set:

Asset

Current Location

Current Driver

Axle

Tire Position

Pressure (PSI)

Set Point (PSI)

Temperature (F)

Tire Status

The Print options prompts the user to print a printer-friendly version of the report currently in view:

Tire Condition Alerts

Users can set up alerts to receive notifications for any tire condition. Alerts can be set for specific tire conditions and/or for alerts with a certain level of criticality (cautionary/critical). The alert will trigger if the tire condition reported by the PressurePro gateway holds for a specified amount of time. Once the alert triggers, a text/email alert will be sent to the contact set in the alert.

The alert contains the affected tire and the specific fault codes associated with the report.

Here’s an example email alert:

** Samsara Alert: Asset has a tire fault. ***

Axle 6 Left Outer has fault codes: 'Across axle fault'. Pressure is 88.2 PSI and temperature is 190.6 °F.

Axle 6 Left Inner has fault codes: 'Across axle fault'. Pressure is 99.2 PSI and temperature is 190.6 °F.

Axle 6 Right Inner has fault codes: 'Across axle fault'. Pressure is 109.6 PSI and temperature is 30.4 °F.

Axle 6 Right Outer has fault codes: 'Across axle fault'. Pressure is 100.9 PSI and temperature is -9.7 °F.

Organization: NDS
Group: NDS
Happened on: Thu, 18 Jun 2020 3:36am PDT

URL: https://cloud.samsara.com/o/25687/alerts/incidents/v2/169181/28/212014918050223/1592476570819

The alert will resolve after the tire condition no longer holds.

Setup

Here's an overview to configure a tire condition alert on the Samsara dashboard.

1. Locate and select the bell on the bottom-left corner of the page:

2. Locate and select "Configure" on the top-right corner of the page:

3. Under the Add an Alert section of the page, select Fault Codes:

 

4. Set "Alert when Tire has a fault" in the drop--down:

5. Set the desired conditions for the alert.

All fault codes triggers the alert if any fault code is detected.

Specific fault codes reveals the option to select either Critical or Non-critical tire faults codes.`

Additionally, specific fault codes can be set for the alert if you're only interested in one or a subset of the fault codes. These can be applied in conjunction with either the Critical or Non-critical options.

6. Set additional alert details, if necessary.

You can select the specific assets that the alert can apply to (in your case with only one asset, this can be ignored) with Select assets to apply this alert to.

You can set how long that condition should hold before sending an alert with "Only alert if this condition holds for more than __ minutes." 

The schedule option lets you set when the alert should be active - if left alone, the alert will always be active.

7. Make sure to set a contact under Send Contact Notifications:

Users can search for existing contacts or select New to add a new contact.

If you want to edit your contact info and add a phone number, the Manage button will send you to the contact list where you can set this info.

8. Select Save at the bottom of the page to complete the alert setup. 

You can turn this alert on and off by toggling the green switch on this page:

Alerts will resolve when the condition set in the alert is no longer met.