What's so smart about SmartControl?

What's so smart about SmartControl?

Its job is almost boring. Heat up the tire to a selected number, hold it there, and prove it. Tires, zones, heat chambers — the job is the same. What's different is what happens between the measurement and the switch.

Discipline.

That part is controlled by ThermoLogic.

ONE HEAT CYCLE · AS THERMOLOGIC RUNS ITREAR · TREAD + RIM · °C

It refuses to guess.

Plenty of controllers can hold a temperature. Smart is what it declines to do. To our knowledge, nothing else in the paddock behaves like this:

NO AVERAGING · EVER

Every sensor is its own truth

Tread and rim each run their own measured channel and loop. No averages, ever. Power and heat are controlled to each channel individually.

PROGRAMS, NOT KNOBS

A bad program refuses to run

The heat cycle isn't just a number. It's a programmed cycle — a start, a ramp, a soak, a hold, and a cooldown. A program profile. Heat by the numbers, with programmed cycles. A profile that breaks the tire maker's rules is rejected before it heats anything.

READY = MEASURED

Warm is a feeling. Ready is a number.

Ready isn't a light. A light says "I've reached the temperature." Ready is an accumulated target — the program has soaked the tire at temperature against the spec it was given. Ready means ready to perform.

NAMED FAULTS

It never fails in silence

A failing sensor or element becomes a named, logged alert you can clear. Not a cold tire and a mystery.

02 · Who it serves — and what it hands back

Three people. One Saturday morning.

THE RIDER08:52 · TEN MINUTES TO SESSION 1 · 12°C AMBIENT

First lap out, already leaned over.

The tires came off the warmers ready — soaked through to the carcass against the compound's own numbers, not just hot on the surface. The first lap counts. Nothing about the morning was guessed.

HANDS BACK → TIRE LIFE · FIRST-LAP GRIP · CONFIDENCE

Dive deeper — what "ready" actually means

The compound library carries the manufacturer's target and soak time for the tire you're running. Pick the compound and the program holds itself to those numbers. The soak clock counts only at temperature, pauses on any dip, and never resets — a generator hiccup at 8:15 can't hand you a tire that only looks ready. Rain tires get their own spec: manufacturers say rains don't need warmers, and most teams warm them anyway — low and gentle, for pliability and wet grip. That profile is in the library too.

COMPOUND LIBRARY + SOAK ACCUMULATOR · IN FIRMWARE TODAY

THE CREW CHIEF08:40 · FOUR BIKES · ONE DECISION AT A TIME

Decisions with curves behind them.

One glance: every tire on every bike, its stage, its soak clock, its history. When the rider asks for one compound softer, the answer comes from last session's actual heat record, not a hunch. The data ends the argument.

HANDS BACK → INDECISION · TIME · PROOF

Dive deeper — the record that settles arguments

Every cycle lands as a structured record — ramp, soak, holds, faults — comparable session over session, season over season. Cold morning at a new track? Pull up the last morning that looked like this and see what the tires actually did. The cloud console shows the same view live, and every remote command is logged, accepted or rejected. Hands at the warmer always outrank the cloud.

STRUCTURED SESSION RECORDS + LIVE CONSOLE · CLOUD PLATFORM LIVE

THE TECH07:05 · ONE GENERATOR · TWELVE WARMERS

One generator. Twelve warmers. No surprises.

The warmers wake in stages under a governed cap, so the breaker holds. A failing connection or voltage variance detected inside warmer six gets a name — "PIT 3 · REAR · RIM — E-04." Catch it before the session is lost.

HANDS BACK → FUEL · GENERATOR HEADROOM · TIME

Dive deeper — faults that stay small

The controller checks its own probes continuously through warm-up, hold, and cooldown. A sensor failing mid-soak is caught, not trusted. Faults are designed to stay small: the rim circuit that faulted stops, its E-code names the exact channel, and the tread beside it keeps heating. Alerts clear at the warmer with one press. If the same code fires again, that pattern is the diagnosis.

CONTINUOUS PROBE VALIDATION · IN FIRMWARE TODAY · PER-ELEMENT ISOLATION BY DESIGN

ThermoLogic, in five moves

The same five moves, every cycle, whether anyone is watching or not.

01 · HEAT RAMPS

Heat at the tire's pace

The ramp follows the compound's rate, not the element's maximum. Surface and carcass come up together.

02 · CONDITIONING

Soak, not surface

Soak counts only at temperature. A dip pauses the clock. Nothing resets.

03 · COMPOUND MANAGEMENT

The tire mfg's rule book baseline, or your preferences

Slick, rain, endurance — each compound carries its own targets and limits. Rains run a low, gentle spec for pliability and wet grip.

04 · COLD & WARM STAGING

Ready when you are

Standby, staged warm-up, overnight scheduling. Plan your tire conditioning to your preferences from wherever you are, whenever you want.

05 · TIRE SENSING

The tire talks back

The system doesn't just push heat — it listens. Designed in: tire pressure feeds the program, the element reports its own health, and every tire builds a heat history. The sensing hardware is already on the board.

Nobody asked. Everybody wanted.

Working today IN FIRMWARE NOW

Faults with names — coded, logged, clearable, never silent
Probes that check themselves — continuously, all cycle long
Ready as a measured verdict — soak proven, not assumed
Every degree on record — sessions comparable, seasons deep
Seen from anywhere — live console, every command logged
Manual control always wins — your hands outrank any remote command; the data decides ready, and feeling the warmer is simply confirmation.

On the board, waking up SOLDERED IN · READY TO LIGHT UP

Tap-to-pair — NFC tire-set identity with heat-cycle history
Session awareness — GPS time-sync, warm-to-the-schedule
Paddock-scale radio — kilometres of range, no infrastructure
CAN — the data bus the rest of your pit already speaks
Black-box records — sealed session data for scrutineering
A voice — mic + speaker for alerts you can hear over a paddock

607 parts on the production board. The right column is not a roadmap. It is soldered in, ready to light up — activated on request.