System for monitoring vehicle use

摘要

A method for granting permission for vehicle access to a network includes the steps of: (a) an applicant electing one or more desired conditions of vehicle use in an electronic datafile; (b) transmitting the electronic datafile via electronic transmission means to a third party for approval; (c) if the electronic datafile is approved, the third party appending approval data to the datafile, giving the applicant temporary permission to access the network in accordance with the elected conditions, conditional upon, in a prescribed time frame: (i) monitoring hardware being installed in the vehicle; and (ii) engaging a monitoring service to monitor use of the vehicle; and (d) when the third party is notified that the hardware has been installed and the monitoring service commenced, finalising the datafile for continued permission to access the network. A method for assessing a vehicle's compliance with one or more conditions of vehicle use specific to the vehicle being assessed and defined in an electronic datafile in relation to the above method includes (a) operating a processor to process a time-marked log containing vehicle data for one or more parameters of vehicle use; (b) using the processor to compare the vehicle data with one or more vehicle use conditions defined in the datafile; and (c) where the comparison indicates that non-compliant activity has occurred, the processor generating an electronic non-compliance report.