Method And System For Monitoring A Rental Vehicle
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Abstract
The invention relates to a method (400) for monitoring a rental vehicle, said vehicle including a navigation/geolocation device arranged such as to determine and report the positioning coordinates of said vehicle, said method including the following steps: verifying (406) that the positioning coordinates of said vehicle are inside a previously recorded predetermined area and, if the positioning coordinates are not inside the predetermined area, executing a step (408-440) of indicating the anomaly. The invention also relates to a system implementing such a method.
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20 Claims
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12. A method for monitoring a vehicle available for rental, said vehicle comprising a global positioning/navigation device arranged to determine and notify the location coordinates of said vehicle, said method comprising the following steps:
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verifying that the location coordinates of said vehicle are situated in a previously registered predetermined zone; and if the location coordinates are not situated in the predetermined zone, executing an anomaly signalling step; wherein the anomaly signalling step comprises at least one of the following operations; transmitting a call to the vehicle, over the GPRS network, or sending a message to a user and/or an operator and/or the law enforcement agencies, over the GPRS network. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A system for monitoring a vehicle available for rental, said vehicle comprising a global positioning/navigation device arranged to determine and notify the location coordinates of said vehicle, said system comprising:
at least one means of verifying that the location coordinates of said vehicle are situated in a previously registered predetermined zone, and at least one means of executing an anomaly signalling step if the location coordinates are not situated in the predetermined zone, said means being configured to perform at least one of the following operations; transmitting a call to the vehicle, over the GPRS network;
orsending a message to an user and/or an operator and/or the law enforcement agencies, over the GPRS network.
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