RENTAL UNIT CONTROLLER SYSTEM

摘要

A rental unit control system is provided which comprises a computer system (16) resident in a particular rental unit dealership (14). A rental unit deactivator circuit (10) is disposed within each rental appliance unit (12). Rental unit deactivator (10) comprises an FM receiver unit (24). FM receiver (24) receives control commands transmitted by an FM radio station (22) through an antenna (28). The FM transmissions are passed through a hi-pass filter (30) into a subcarrier demodulator (32). A microprocessor control unit (34) discerns whether a particular rental appliance unit (12) has been addressed and controls a switch (36) to selectively enable or disable the rental appliance unit. Computer system (16) within the rental unit dealership (14) is provided with software accounting systems, database management systems and transmission control systems which allow for the efficient management of a large number of rental appliance units rented by the particular dealership (14).