摘要 |
A lease equipment and tracking system (1) comprising a plurality of equipment available for lease from a lessor to any one or more of a plurality of lessees, including mobile lessees and static lessees, each mobile lessee having an identification device (4, 5, 6) unique thereto and identifying the mobile lessee, each static lessee including at least one terminal unit (2) identifying the static lessee and configured to read (24) the identification devices (4, 5, 6), wherein upon transfer of the equipment from a mobile lessee to a static lessee or vice versa, the identification device (4, 5, 6) is read by the terminal unit (2), which communicates details of the transfer to a host computer (10) via a communication channel (88, 89, 90, 11), the host computer (15) recording and validating the transfer and accounting for lease charges of the equipment for each of the mobile lessee and the static lessee. |