Patent ID: 6301533
Filing Date: 2001-10-09
Classification: G07C,G08G

Abstract:
A vehicle monitoring, recording and analyzing system comprising:a plurality of operational sensors located within the vehicle for sensing a plurality of vehicle operating parameters, the sensors generating data signals indicative of values of the operating parameters;a vehicle location sensor for determining a current location of the vehicle and generating a location signal in response thereto; anda data processing and recording device coupled to the vehicle location sensor and the operational sensors, the data processing and recording device including a central processing unit, a data storage means, a data communication means and a data input means, the central processing unit operable for periodically sampling the location signal and each of the data signals and producing data samples representative of the location signal from the location sensor and the magnitudes of the data signals from each of the operational sensors, one of the data samples corresponding to a trip end point, the data storage means operable for receiving and storing the data samples, the data communication means operable in a first mode to upload data to the data storage means, the data communication means operable in a second mode to download data from the data storage means, the data input means operable for communicating a driver input to the central processing unit;wherein the central processing unit determines mileage traveled during a trip from the data samples and, in absence of a driver input, attributes the mileage to a business account or a personal account based on the data sample corresponding to the trip end point.