by as much as an order of magnitude according to the embodiments it is also desirable to monitor oil quality with appropriate sensors to monitor oil ph etch rate metal contamination pressure temperature soot loading in filter and or the presence of coolant or fuel additional protection can be provided to systems 300 400 the oil quality information can be displayed or up linked on a real time basis utilizing monitoring device 414 disclosed in fig4 and 5 a wireless module 402 can be connected to sensor module 308 in order to transmit data wirelessly from sensor module 308 through antenna 404 which is incorporated with wireless module 402 power 406 to sensor module 308 can be provided as capacitive 408 or wired 410 depending upon design considerations sensor data can therefore be transmitted from wireless module 402 to a receiver 412 associated with an antenna 415 wireless communications are represented in fig4 by dashed line 407 a monitoring device 414 is associated with receiver 412 both the monitoring device 414 and the receiver 412 may be located within a vehicle cabin e g a car heavy duty truck etc the monitoring device 414 thus monitors data transmitted wirelessly from the sensor module.