SMARTPHONE BASED SYSTEM FOR VEHICLE MONITORING SECURITY

摘要

An apparatus and method for monitoring a vehicle. Some embodiments include: capturing and securely storing OBD and location data from the vehicle, maintaining the data on storage in control of a user for a user-specified amount of time, securely transmitting the stored data to an internet-based server, storing the data on the internet server and processing the data for retrieval, retrieving the data from the internet server for display via a web server or specialized application, and performing remote diagnostics in the vehicle based on the VIN. Some embodiments include extracting a make and model of the vehicle from the VIN; wirelessly transmitting the make and model to a server; wirelessly receiving, from the server, a particular set of on-board-diagnostic (OBD) queries to perform to determine whether any abnormal measurements exist for this make and model; and executing a plurality of queries from the particular set of OBD queries.

主权项

1. A computerized method for monitoring a particular vehicle with a vehicle computer system located in the vehicle, the method comprising:
acquiring a set of vehicle data that includes vehicle diagnostic data, time data, and location data associated with a route the vehicle travels; associating each of a plurality of the diagnostic data with respective ones of the time data and the location data; securing the set of vehicle data and then storing the secured set of vehicle on the vehicle computer system; and after a predetermined time delay from the acquiring of the set of vehicle data has elapsed, wirelessly transmitting the set of vehicle data to a host computer server.