TIRE SENSOR-BASED MILEAGE TRACKING SYSTEM AND METHOD

A tire tracking system and method for tracking travel mileage experienced by a vehicle tire (12) is disclosed. The system comprises a vehicle (10) supported by at least one vehicle tire (12); a tire-affixed identification transponder operative to generate tire-specific identification data; a vehicle-based system operative to generate a synchronous stream of incremental vehicle travel distance estimations; a timestamp synchronization and distance traveled estimator (24) operative to estimate a synchronous, preferably continuous stream of tire additional travel distance estimations based on the stream of incremental vehicle travel distance estimations; and a mobile network (32) for uploading the tire additional travel distance estimations and the tire-specific identification data to a remote server. The remote server operatively aggregates a total tire travel distance from the uploaded tire additional travel distance estimations in a form accessible by the tire-specific identification data.