The History of Tire Pressure Monitoring System

TPMS Sensor( Tire Pressure Monitoring System) is an equipment that keep tracking of real time tire pressure and display the measured data in the dashboard or on the central car DVD player screen. The system will alert you when any of 4 tire's pressure drops below the recommended acctepable level or increased too high than the recommended value. This is much easy for you to know your tires are significantly under-inflated, possibly creating unsafe driving.

The dashboard will show a yellow symbol or make sound alarm to alert you when TPMS become low or high tire pressure status. TPMS is located in the valve stem of each tire and display the current tire pressure and temperature of each tires. When it is broken or battery dead, you need to disassemble the tires and change a new one. You cannot just simply change the battery, as the battery is not changable.

1. 1997: General Motors has started using indirect TPMS.
2. 2000: the TREAD (Transportation Recall Enhancement Accountability and Documentation) Act was passed. This Act requires all new cars sold in the US after September 2007 must be equipped with TPMS. Vehicles with weight not exceeding 4536kg must all be equipped with TPMS( Tire Pressure Monitoring System)
3. 2010: according to Europe Union regulations established in 2012 (EC661-2009) mandate that this system must be installed in all new vehicles approved from November 2012 onwards, and in all new vehicles from November 2014 onwards.
4. 2012: all new passengaer vehicles starting January 2013, and existing models starting Janurary 2015 have to install TPMS Sensor system in South Korea and Japan Regulation in 2013.
5. 2013: all new models in M1 and N1 must install TPMS and variety of M1 and N1 vehicles must install tire pressure mornitoring system from July 1st, 2015 in Taiwan.
6. 2016: in September 2016, China National Standardization Committee approved the mandatory national standard "Performance Requirements and Test Methods for Passenger Car Tire Pressure Monitoring Systems (TPMS)" (GB26149-2017) and submitted it for review. It was officially published on November 14, 2017.