Method and system for monitoring a rental vehicle

摘要

The invention relates to a method (400) for monitoring a rental vehicle, said vehicle including a navigation/geolocation device arranged such as to determine and report the positioning coordinates of said vehicle, said method including the following steps: verifying (406) that the positioning coordinates of said vehicle are inside a previously recorded predetermined area and, if the positioning coordinates are not inside the predetermined area, executing a step (408-440) of indicating the anomaly. The invention also relates to a system implementing such a method.

主权项

1. A method for monitoring a vehicle available for rental, said vehicle comprising a global positioning navigation device arranged to determine and notify the location coordinates of said vehicle, said method comprising the following steps:
storing a first identifier in the vehicle, wherein the first identifier is associated with an authorized user of the vehicle; determining that the location coordinates of said vehicle are not situated in a previously registered predetermined zone; in response to determining the location coordinates are not situated in the predetermined zone, collecting, by an identification module disposed in the vehicle, a second identifier, wherein the second identifier is associated with a person in the vehicle; comparing the first identifier with the second identifier; determining whether the first identifier matches the second identifier; and in response to determining the first identifier does not match the second identifier, notifying a central site over a GPRS network.