Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Trw Automotive U.S. LLC

Michelin Recherche Et Techniques S.a.

Stephen Scott Wieland

Ryan Edwin Hanson

David Leonard Juzswik

Michael G Oszust

A key fob includes: communicator(s), a battery, memory, and processor(s) configured to: find signal strengths of received polls; determine, based on the signal strengths, that the received polls have: (a) increased, (b) decreased, (c) leveled off; and if (a), issue a poll response; if (c), not issue the poll response.

Key fob with RSSI

A system () is provided for monitoring a remote tire monitoring sensor. The system includes a tire-based unit () having a sensor () and transmitter () that receives power from a power supply () located within the tire-based unit (). The transmitter () transmits a signal () relating to a parameter measured by the sensor (). The system () further includes a controller () that evaluates the life of the power supply () by monitoring energy usage of the power supply () by counting the number of occurrences in which the energy usage is above a prescribed amount () and comparing the number of occurrences to an energy threshold ().

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Stephen Scott Wieland