Patent ID: 7554441

Claim:
A wireless mobile resource management system comprising: an on board system including: a position locating system for determining a location of the on board system, a plurality of sensors for monitoring conditions and independently collecting information corresponding to sensed states of the conditions being monitored, each sensor collecting the information asynchronously with respect to other sensors, and a transceiver for transmitting and receiving information to and from the on board system over a wireless communication network; a processor for collecting the asynchronous sensor data collected by the plurality of sensors and saving the asynchronous data in the form of synchronous data; a data center for monitoring at least one sensed state from the plurality of sensors and providing instructions to the on board system in response to the at least one monitored sensed state, the data center including: a communication server for establishing a first communication link with the on board system over the wireless communication network, and further establishing a second communication link over a data communication network, a data center processor for processing the synchronous data, and generating streams of sensor data representative of the asynchronous sensor data collected by the plurality of sensors, and a database for storing operational transactions of the on board system at predetermined time intervals and/or upon a change in a sensed state of at least one of the conditions being monitored, wherein a continuous two-way connection is established between the on board system and the data center across the wireless communication network; and wherein the synchronous data saved by the processor is synchronous with respect to the data center processor.