Experience
The pre-journey standard
Arrive, identify the vehicle, describe the load, connect four hoses. AiR does the rest and records it.
Simulated real-world data being used for demonstration purposes
Arrive
The unit wakes on approach and shows a single instruction: touch to begin.
Identify
Registration entry, QR scan from the AiR app, or manual vehicle selection.
Describe the load
Occupants, luggage, roof box, trailer, pillion, journey type.
Approve
AiR shows the manufacturer-approved target for each axle and the reasoning behind it.
Connect
Four retractable hoses, two docks per side. AiR will not start until every hose is connected.
Correct
Each channel measures, inflates or deflates, then stabilises independently.
Report
Journey-ready status, per-tyre corrections, warnings, and a receipt in the AiR app.
Run it yourself
The simulator covers every step above, including fault conditions.
Launch machine simulatorEvidence base
Designing the session around how drivers actually behave
The experience is shaped by measured driver behaviour, not by an idealised user. Most people check pressures rarely, many are not confident doing it, and pressure leaves the tyre continuously in between.
Confidence is the barrier, not willingness
UK survey work found 37% of drivers are not confident inflating their own tyres. A guided, four-hose session removes the judgement calls rather than asking drivers to make better ones.2024
Load questions exist because load changes the answer
Approved load tables give different pressures for different axle loads, so occupancy, luggage and towing must be declared before a correct target can be chosen.2025
Cited on this page
- US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (2009). Tire Pressure Maintenance - A Statistical Investigation (DOT HS 811 086). NHTSA.
- The Motor Ombudsman (2024). Driving under pressure is costing the nation's motorists at least GBP 112 million every year in lost tyres. The Motor Ombudsman research study.
- European Tyre and Rim Technical Organisation (2025). ETRTO Standards Manual - load capacity and inflation pressure tables. ETRTO, Brussels, annual edition.
- United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (2016). UN Regulation No. 117 - Tyre rolling sound emissions, wet grip and rolling resistance. UNECE.
These are published third-party sources, not AiR simulation. The full bibliography - peer-reviewed papers, reference monographs, government reports, international standards and official statistics - lives in the science lab.
Open the research and full bibliographySession anatomy
Ninety seconds, four tyres, one verifiable record
A conventional forecourt air line asks the driver to know a number, hold a hose, and repeat the job four times in traffic. AiR reverses that: the machine knows the vehicle, asks about the load, and works all four corners at once while the driver stands clear.
Median session time
0s
Arrival to journey-ready report, four tyres.
Driver actions required
0
Touch, identify, load, approve, connect, collect.
Tyres per session
0
Two tyres on a motorcycle ride-ready session.
Manual reading errors
0
Every reading is instrumented, logged and timestamped.
The unit wakes on approach and shows one instruction. Identification takes a registration, a QR code from the AiR app, or a manual vehicle pick. Everything after that is confirmation rather than data entry.
Load description is the step conventional equipment has never had. Occupancy, luggage, roof box, trailer and journey type each move the approved profile, and AiR shows which one it selected before anything inflates.
- Approach detection wakes the display and retracts hose slack
- Registration lookup returns make, model, year, tyre size and approved profiles
- Load questions are answered in three taps for the common cases
- The approved target and its reasoning are shown before the driver connects
What the driver sees
Step by step
Touch to begin
0sSingle instruction, high-contrast display, readable in direct sun and rain.
Vehicle confirmed
12sRegistration resolves to a specific vehicle and its manufacturer-approved pressure table.
Load described
24sOccupants, cargo and journey type select the profile. AiR explains its choice in one line.
Four hoses connected
40sThe plan view fills in as each hose seals. The cycle cannot start until all channels are live.
Journey ready
92sPer-tyre before and after values, warnings, and a receipt pushed to the AiR app.
Questions