Talk:Direct TPMS

This article is rated C-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects:

Automobiles Low‑importance This article is within the scope of WikiProject Automobiles, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of automobiles on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.AutomobilesWikipedia:WikiProject AutomobilesTemplate:WikiProject AutomobilesAutomobile articles Low This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Hi Can we discuss the merits of your request to delet this page? Direct tpms is an emerging technology which is widespread throughout the world and there is not a wiki page already on this subject.Cwbeal (talk) 14:12, 6 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Should there be a companion article at Indirect TPMS or iTPMS?

(Note: as of 7 July 2022, those titles either do not exist, or only exist as redirects.)

Both types (‘direct’ and ‘indirect’) are currently mentioned at Tire-pressure monitoring system, yet Direct TPMS has its own article (with a redirects at TPMS and dTPMS).

(This is probably warranted, as ‘direct’ systems both have physical components of various shapes and sizes and operate on multiple frequencies and communication protocols, depending on the part of the world in which the vehicle is to be operated: more article detail / complexity may be required to describe these details and thus justify a discrete article.)

The ‘indirect’ style, for apparent reasons of cost and simplicity, seems to be much more common since around 2010 in the United States. Is this the case in other parts of the world as well?

(The ‘direct’ style may increase in market share in the future, as component costs decrease and battery longevity increases. Hopefully the various incompatible systems will eventually be standardized, as well.)

How do other language Wikipedias, especially those with major auto industries (e.g. DE, FR, JP, RU, or ZH), handle this?

~ ~ ~ ~

(There is a 14-year-old redirect at Deflation Detection System, which is a term used by at least some automakers such as Ford to refer to wheel-speed based ‘indirect’ TPMS systems. If an Indirect TPMS article was created, should the target of that redirect be changed?)

~ ~ ~ ~

(notices posted at the TPMS talk page and at the Indirect TPMS talk page.)

While an alternative could be to merge Direct TPMS/dTPMS with the main TPMS article, it seems three articles (i.e. two specific and one summary, cross-wikilinked to each other) may be ideal, especially for those unfamiliar with the topic.

-Jim Grisham (talk) 14:33, 7 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]