Patent ID: 7123164

Claim:
A vehicle telemetric system, comprising: a central host connected to a communications network; one or more gateways connected to the communications network, the communications network enabling the transfer of packet data between the gateways and the central host; a vehicle interface unit (VIU) within a vehicle having access to sensors in the vehicle for collecting vehicle related data, the VIU having means for communication over a wireless link of any of said gateways when the vehicle is within a transmission range of one of said gateways; the VIU further comprising means for aggregating and formatting the vehicle related data into a data point record (DPR) including a unique sequence number and a vehicle identification number; the VIU having a memory for storing a list of DPRs, and a VIU means for forwarding the DPRs to the one of said gateways over the wireless link; each gateway having another memory for storing the DPRs received from the VIU, and a gateway means for forwarding the DPRs to the central host; and the central host having means for storing DPRs generated by the VIU and received from all gateways, and means for notifying each gateway regarding the sequence numbers and the vehicle identification numbers of the DPRs that have been already received at the central host.