Patent ID: 8902056

Claim:
A tire pressure monitoring system for a vehicle having a plurality of tires, said system comprising: a plurality of tire pressure sub-systems where a separate tire pressure sub-system is provided in each tire, and where each tire pressure sub-system transmits data concerning the pressure in the tire; and a receiving sub-system including at least one receiving antenna, said receiving antenna being positioned proximate a vehicle chassis and the vehicle tires, wherein the at least one receiving antenna is positioned proximate to the vehicle chassis at a location determined by system performance prediction tools that include mean-time-to-warning verses packet error rate curves for various operating scenarios and different classes of vehicles for a desired packet error rate, packet error rate verses signal-to-noise ratio curves for various operational scenarios and different classes of vehicle that provides a necessary signal-to-noise ratio for a wireless link, and operational scenarios that established desired levels of performance and reliability.