Patent ID: 7786895

Claim:
A multi-user motor vehicle telemetric system, comprising: (a) one or more central hosts connected to a communications network, each central host being associated with one or more users of the system; (b) one or more gateways connected to the communications network, the communications network enabling the transfer of data between the gateways and the central hosts; (c) one or more vehicle interface units (VIUs), each placed within a vehicle having access to sensors in the vehicle for collecting vehicle related data, each VIU having means for communication over a wireless link to gateways designated to be accessed by said each VIU when the VIU of the vehicle is within a transmission range of one of said designated gateways, and wherein each VIU is associated with one or more of the users; (d) each central host having means for selecting gateways for collecting data from each VIU which is associated with the users that the central host is associated with; (e) each central host having means allowing each user to specify the data to be collected from its associated VIUs through a data collection profile which is stored in the central host and the selected gateways; (f) each gateway having means for recognizing the association between central hosts and VIUs belonging to the same user; and (g) each VIU having a means for collecting the data, which is required to be collected according to a combined data collection profile for all users associated with said each VIU.