signals for its operation non limiting examples of functionality options that may be provided in main tire electronics module 200 either alone or in various combinations include temperature pressure number of revolutions tire speed speed time at temperature distance time at speed and distance time at temperature as well as storage and retrieval of tire specific manufacturing data and the transmission and reception of all such data in certain exemplary embodiments of the present technology operating power for the tire electronics module 200 may also be supplied in whole or in part from the piezoelectric device 210 in one exemplary configuration tire electronics module 200 may include a rechargeable battery 206 that may be recharged from energy harvested from the pulses produced by piezoelectric element 214 in another exemplary embodiment of the present technology all of the operating power for the tire electronics module 200 may be supplied from energy harvested from the piezoelectric element 214 as illustrated in fig2 an exemplary embodiment of the piezoelectric device 210 in accordance with the present technology corresponds to a motion sensitive piezoelectric element 212 that is substantially equivalent to piezoelectric element 110 illustrated in fig1 in addition piezoelectric device 210 may include an optional conversion circuit 214 coupled to the output of motion sensitive piezoelectric element 212 for converting pulses from the motion sensitive piezoelectric element 212 to narrow width i e high current pulses for application to transmitter inductor 216 in another exemplary embodiment of the present technology.