And that was not directed at anyone in specific. I'm just continually impressed by the growing reliance upon more complicated systems in order to achieve the simplest tasks. If you walk around and check pressure once a month you might notice other things which should be monitored, like bulged sidewalls, chunks out of the tread, a screw or nail sticking out the carcass, missing wheel weights, etc. FYI, general and commercial aviation does not rely upon sensors. Of course they use them, but also require a preflight walk-around, even checking things like strut pressures, APU fluids, etc. No one waits for a sensor to alert them to a condition. By then, that "condition" has turned to a bona fide "problem."
I have a potential customer in Texas who is insisting upon installing remote vibration (amplitude/frequency) and sound pressure level sensors in his equipment for a SCADA system in a municipal control center. Instead of asking those responsible for operating the equipment to walk around and observe the equipment they want to rely upon sensors. Apparently they never heard about Fukashima or TMI. That way they can sit in their cozy chairs in complete denial as the water drowns them in their control center.
THAT"S what I meant by "morons" in the previous post.