Pirelli Cyber Tyre technology will be tested on five Carabinieri vehicles in Rome, combining tyre-sensor data with onboard cameras and artificial intelligence to identify road-surface and signage problems. The deployment adds another road-infrastructure application for Cyber Tyre as Pirelli expands the technology beyond data used principally within the vehicle.
The General Headquarters of the Arma dei Carabinieri and Pirelli have signed a memorandum of understanding covering a trial on five Alfa Romeo Tonale vehicles operated by Rome’s Radiomobile Unit.
The vehicles, which are used for territorial control and emergency response, will collect tyre and visual data automatically during normal operations. Pirelli says no intervention will be required from Carabinieri personnel.
Information captured by sensors integrated into the tyres will be combined with data from onboard cameras. Artificial intelligence algorithms developed by Pirelli technology partner Univrses will analyse the combined inputs to identify road-surface anomalies and problems with signage.
The resulting data is intended to contribute to a continuously updated picture of road-network conditions and identify potential infrastructure risks.
For Cyber Tyre, the deployment is another example of tyre data being used beyond the immediate relationship between the tyre and vehicle.
Pirelli has previously positioned Cyber Tyre as a source of real-time information for vehicle electronic systems, including ABS, stability control and traction control. Its work on infrastructure monitoring uses the same broader connected-tyre concept differently, combining information from the tyre with other sensing technologies to describe conditions outside the vehicle.
That strand of the programme predates the Carabinieri agreement. In June 2025, Pirelli and the Apulia regional government launched a pilot combining Cyber Tyre data with Univrses computer vision to monitor the regional road network. Pirelli has also worked with Movyon, part of the Autostrade per l’Italia group, on motorway monitoring.
The relationship with Univrses has since deepened. TNM reported in April that Pirelli acquired a 30% stake in the Swedish computer-vision company, with an option to obtain majority ownership, as the companies expanded their work on road-network monitoring and autonomous-driving applications.
Pirelli’s wider connected-tyre development has also included investment in virtual-sensor specialist RIDEsense and, more recently, a project with Abet Group applying Cyber Tyre and other sensing technologies to remote-controlled rescue vehicles.
Those projects cover different applications rather than a single sequential technology roadmap, but collectively they show the range of environments in which Pirelli is testing how tyre-generated information can be combined with wider vehicle and environmental data.
The Rome trial remains small. Neither Pirelli nor the Carabinieri has disclosed its expected duration, kilometres of road to be monitored, detection-accuracy targets or how identified problems will translate into maintenance activity.
Those measures will ultimately be more informative than the number of vehicles involved in determining what infrastructure-monitoring applications can deliver. For now, the five-vehicle Carabinieri deployment provides another operational test of connected tyre data being used to understand the road as well as the vehicle travelling over it.
Tags: Pirelli Cyber Tyre, Carabinieri, connected tyres, smart tyres, road monitoring, Univrses, tyre sensors, computer vision, road infrastructure, fleet technology
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