System and method for detecting use of a wireless device in a moving vehicle

摘要

A system and method for detecting use of a wireless device is disclosed. In one embodiment, wireless device activity data is received from a wireless network. User account data is searched using selected parameters from the wireless device activity data to identify one or more subscribers that are or were using a wireless device. One or more subscriber vehicles or vehicle monitoring systems associated with each of the one or more subscribers are identified. Vehicle operation data from one or more vehicle monitoring systems is received. The vehicle operation data is used to determine whether any of the one or more subscriber vehicles were moving during use of an associated wireless device.

主权项

1. A method for detecting wireless device use in a moving vehicle, comprising:
a computing system receiving data that indicates that a wireless device is being used in a moving vehicle; the computing system determining that the wireless device is being used by a user of the moving vehicle; the computing system, in response to determining that the wireless device is being used by the user of the moving vehicle, sending a command to a monitoring system that is communicatively coupled to the moving vehicle for operably causing an audible warning to be rendered by a speaker in the moving vehicle, the audible warning instructing the user to discontinue use of the particular mobile device in the moving vehicle, the audible warning being provided without disabling any use of the particular mobile device; and determining whether the user has terminated use of the particular mobile device after a predetermined period of time subsequent to providing the audible warning to discontinue use of the particular mobile device.