System for monitoring vehicle use

摘要

A system for monitoring a vehicle's compliance with one or more vehicle-use conditions is disclosed. The system includes an in-vehicle unit (IVU) associated with a vehicle being monitored. The IVU includes: a receiver for receiving positioning signals; a processor for processing a time-marked log of vehicle data; a storage element for storing the time-marked log; and a first wireless communication element for communicating time marked data to a Service Provider (SP) processing apparatus. The system also includes one or more Service Providers operating Service Provider (SP) processing apparatus. The SP processing apparatus includes: a SP wireless communication element for receiving time-marked data from one or more IVUs; a SP processor for processing received data, the SP processor adapted to compare received data from the time-marked log of a vehicle with one or more vehicle-use conditions specific to that vehicle, and to generate a non-compliance report where the comparison indicates that non-compliant activity has occurred; and a SP storage element for storing non-compliance reports and relevant time-marked data.