A method for early intake valve closing in an internal combustion engine having a crankshaft and at least one exhaust valve, the crankshaft having a top dead center position and a bottom dead center position, includes the step of determining engine operating load conditions and parameters. The hierarchy includes a high priority channel and a low priority channel, wherein traffic on the low priority channel is fragmented and interleaved with traffic from the high priority channel and traffic combined from the high priority and low priority channels has a maximum shape rate. The monitoring device may be an integrated unit, including sensors, a two-way telemetry unit, a power supply, a processor, and supporting hardware, all located in an enclosed, waterproof housing. The reflective electrode layer further includes a first band reflective electrode, a second band reflective electrode and a third band reflective electrode in a regularly tiled planar arrangement.