Patent ID: 8576059

Claim:
A tire monitoring system for a vehicle, comprising: at least one sensing device adapted for engaging an opening of a wheel of a vehicle such that the sensing device is exposed to the interior of a tire affixed to the wheel, the sensing device comprising a sensor adapted for collecting sensed data from the vehicle tire, a transmitting device adapted for transmitting the sensed data, a unique identification number, and a removable identification component that is electronically associated with and identified to the sensing device, wherein the identification component comprises the same unique identification number as the sensing device, wherein the identification component is removable from the sensing device and receivable with a port of a system receiver; and a system receiver adapted to receive the sensed data from the sensor and to provide the sensed data to a vehicle user, one or more ports for receiving one or more identification components, wherein engaging the system receiver with an identification component enables the system receiver to correlate data received from the sensing device electronically associated with the identification component to that identification component.