Vehicle profile control and monitoring

摘要

Methods, systems and apparatus for vehicle control, tracking, and reporting. In an aspect, vehicle parameters that describe the current operation of the vehicle are compared to profile parameters of a driver. If the vehicle parameters are not within the operational limits defined by the profile parameters, an out of profile parameter process is performed. The out of profile parameter process includes wirelessly sending a violation report to an administrator device.

主权项

1. A vehicle control and monitoring system, comprising:
a vehicle device comprising a processing subsystem, a communication subsystem that communicates over a wireless network, and a memory subsystem that stores:
a plurality of user profiles, each user profile specifying a profile parameters for the user profile, the profile parameters defining operational limits for an automotive vehicle;an administrator profile, the administrator profile storing contact information for wirelessly providing data to an administrator device; andprocessing instructions that are executable by the processing subsystem and upon such execution cause the processing subsystem to perform operations comprising:
determine a profile of a user that is in an operator role of a vehicle in which the vehicle device is installed, the determination comprising receiving, from a smart key, a profile identifier of a user that is in an operator role of the vehicle, the profile identifier identifying the profile of user, and wherein each profile identifier is uniquely associated with a respective smart key so that each smart key identifies the respective profile of the user;if the profile of the user in one of the user profiles, then:
obtain vehicle parameters that describe the current operation of the vehicle;determine whether the vehicle parameters are within the operational limits defined by the profile parameters of the user profile of the user that is in the operator role of the vehicle;in response to determining that a vehicle parameter is not within the operational limits defined by the profile parameters, perform an out of profile parameter process that includes wirelessly sending a violation report to the administrator device by use of the communication subsystem; wherein the processing instructions cause the processing subsystem to perform operations further comprise:
for each determination of a user profile, performing a security test based on prior usage pattern data associated with the user profile that defines time periods of normal usage; andfor each security test for which a current time is determined to be within the time period of normal usage, unlocking an ignition of the vehicle;for each security test for which a current time is determined to be without the time period of normal usage, requiring approval by an administer associated with the administrator profile to unlock the ignition of the vehicle.