ContiConnect™ Digital Tire Monitoring
The next generation of tire management
As a fleet manager, you take care of your vehicles and their maintenance on a daily basis. If something goes wrong, time schedules cannot be met, and your company’s profitability suffers. Under-inflated tires are a major reason for breakdowns and service calls. In fact, tires account for 5% of fleet equipment but influence up to 53% of overall operating cost. With ContiConnect™, you can monitor the health of your tires and thereby increase safety, reduce tire wear, ensure increased uptime and avoid costly breakdowns, lower maintenance costs, and optimize fuel savings.
Tires only account for 5% of vehicle expenses, but influence 53% of the fleet’s operating costs.
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Fuel & Additives
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Management & Admin
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Maintenance & Repair
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Properly maintained tires reduce overall driving costs, reduce your environmental footprint and give you peace-of-mind. With ContiConnect™ you always stay up-to-date on your fleet’s tire health. Manage your tire digitally with ContiConnect™, and reduce your maintenance cost while increasing uptime, tire lifetime, the overall efficiency and safety of your fleet.
What is ContiConnect™?
ContiConnect™ 2.0 is a customizable package of tried-and-tested digital tire management system services such as continuous tire pressure and temperature monitoring. With the introduction of version 2.0, it will enable our fleet customers to digitally capture and monitor the mileage, tread depth and condition of all tires in the fleet. With the live version, fleets can be monitored in real time. This means that tires on cars, trucks, buses and off-road vehicles can now be maintained even more precisely when they need to be.
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ContiConnect™ Features
We at Continental are experts when it comes to tires. But not only that! We are constantly working together with you to shape the future in transport. Our digital solutions monitor the health of your tires – so that you can focus on more important things. Our solutions are just as individual as your business and our team will find the right match for you.
- Gen 2 Intelligent Sensors
- Scalable and Modular
- User-Friendly Interfaces
Bring efficiency to the next level and experience a anew dimension of digital tire monitoring with sensors that measure tire pressure and temperature with a mileage and tread depth prediction.
- Accurate tire pressure and temperature readings to prevent tire damage and breakdowns
- Sensor lasts 6 years / 400,000 miles to minimize disruptions to your tire program
- Only sensor to provide true tire casing temperature, allowing preventive actions that make your tire last longer
- Avoids valve damage and air leaks by mounting on the inner liner of the tire
Continental's digital tire monitoring solutions are scalable to meet various demands. ContiPressureCheck™ and ContiConnect™ follow a modular approach with different components matched to the size of your fleet and the requirements of your business. Whether looking for individual vehicle solutions or large fleet solutions, with telematics integration, or with real-time remote monitoring, we can build a tire monitoring package to fit your needs.
Manage the entire tire life cycle via real-time web and app interfaces. The ContiConnect™ web portal and On-Site App allow fleet managers to conveniently access low pressure alerts, track data over time or view detailed reports and analytics. If low tire pressure or high temperatures are detected, you will receive an alert in order to proactively fix the problem. Each interface provides convenient access, especially for big fleets.
Available Packages
Tire Solution | Truck or Bus | Truck w/ Trailer | Trailer Only | Specialty |
| Yard: Monitor the tires of vehicles returning regularly to dedicated checkpoints using the Yard Reader Station | X | X | X | X |
| Live w/ Continental Telematics: Monitor the tires of your vehicles while they're on the road | X | X | X | |
| Live w/ 3rd Party Telematics: Easily integrate ContiConnect data into your existing telematics device | X | X | X | |
| Dongle + Driver App: Use ContiConnect with the Bluetooth Dongle that transmits data directly to the Driver App | X | X | X |
Components
- Tire Sensor
- Yard Reader Station (YRS)
- Central Control Unit (CCU)
- Bluetooth Dongle
- Transmitters
- User Interfaces
- Hand-Held Tool
The tire sensor is mounted onto the inner liner of a tire in order to collect and transmit data. The sensor can either be retro-fitted or factory-fitted onto a tire.
- Pressure & Temperature
- Mileage estimation
- Yard Reader Mode
- Battery estimation
- Bluetooth Connectivity
If you choose ContiConnect™ Yard, the yard reader station is the connectivity component used that receives the data from the tire sensors within a yard. The yard reader station is installed at the fleet's frequent touch points, like a washing bay, gas station or other check-points within the yard. It reads the data off the tire sensors and transmits it via cellular connection to the backend where it is analyzed and interpreted.
The installation manual for the yard reader station can be found here.
- Receives and evaluates signals from tire sensors
- Receives signals from the tire sensors, evaluates data and processes it
- Installed in the vehicle
- Receives the data from the central control unit and sends it via Bluetooth to a mobile device
- Mounted in the cabin and connected to the central control unit via cable
- Max. range of 10 m
In-Cabin-Unit
- Receives signals directly from the sensors and from enabler units and sends them to the IoT platform
- For in-vehicle usage
- No Central Control Unit required
- Enabler unit can be added to forward the signals if longer distances need to be bridged
Trailer Unit
- Battery-powered trailer unit (~ 4 weeks battery, battery is automatically re-charged while driving)
- Receives signals directly from the sensors and enabler units and sends them to the IoT platform
- For outside usage
- GPS-enabled
- No additional Central Control Unit required
- Enabler unit can be added to forward the signals if longer distances need to be bridged
Enabler Unit
- Receives sensor signals and forwards them to in-cabin unit or trailer unit
- Power supply requires
- For outside usage
Web Portal
The ContiConnect™ web portal is the interface where you can proactively monitor the tire conditions on all of your vehicles. The web portal is a browser-based application that can be accessed from any type of device.
- Browser-based web interface for access to data, statistics and reports
- Enables real-time monitoring of entire fleet’s tire status
On-Site App
- Available for mobile devices and tablets
- Compatible with iOS and Android
- Create, manage and configure vehicles
- Read out sensor data via Bluetooth & transmit it to the IoT platform
- Perform vehicle / tire checks
- Receive tire alerts via push-notification
The handheld tool is needed for initialization of ContiConnect™. This component is used to assign each tire sensor to the respective wheel position of the vehicle. It connects wirelessly to the tire sensors. Further, you can also use the hand-held tool to import tire data to the web portal without a yard reader station.
- Initial configuration of entire system
- Wireless communication with tire sensors
- Synchronizes tire sensors to each wheel position
- Wired communication with CCU
Customer Benefits
Having everything under control makes life much easier – and your business smarter. With ContiConnect™ 2.0 you benefit from full transparency on the key factors of your fleet’s tires by monitoring their health. What’s really good: it’s in real time, which allows you to proactively plan services thanks to predictive analytics. Finally, a solution to increase your peace of mind.
Running a business is full of ups and downs. With the ability to remotely monitor all relevant tire parameters such as pressure, temperature and now even mileage measurement and tread depth prediction, you can significantly lower the risk of tire-related breakdowns. This helps you to generate value by increasing your vehicle’s uptime – and your asset’s lifetime – easily. Improve your efficiency by reducing fuel costs and CO2 emissions. Now, your business gets even more ups.
No business is like any other. You have different challenges, vehicles and needs. The perfect solution is the one that covers all of them. ContiConnect™ has different options to choose from – including different packages and add-ons. Pick the ones you profit the most from with our modular system. Tailor-made to your vehicle’s operations: check all data 24/7 on any device with LIVE or right after your trucks return to their dedicated checkpoints with YARD. This is digital tire monitoring for every business.
Hear what our customers say
Cement Hauler
"ContiConnect is probably one of the most important tools of the past four or five years. We've gotten to the point where we're no longer looking at trailers not knowing which trailer needs some [tire] repairs, but we go right to the one that needs help."
Venezia Transport
“Continental was able to provide a solution that we could use to target our terminals that had the highest outside spend on tires and service,” says Bob Deangelo, Director of Maintenance for Venezia Transport
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