System for Monitoring Vehicle Use

A method for granting permission for vehicle access to a network, comprising the steps of:

• (a) an applicant electing one or more desired conditions of vehicle use in an electronic datafile;
• (b) transmitting the electronic datafile via electronic transmission means to a third party for approval;
• (c) if the electronic datafile is approved, the third party appending approval data to the datafile, giving the applicant temporary permission to access the network in accordance with the elected conditions, conditional upon, in a prescribed time frame:
• (i) monitoring hardware being installed in the vehicle;
• and
• (ii) engaging a monitoring service to monitor use of the vehicle;
• and
• (d) when the third party is notified that the hardware has been installed and the monitoring service commenced, finalising the datafile for continued permission to access the network.

A computer program product for assessing a vehicle's compliance with one or more predefined use conditions, the computer program product storing instructions for performing a method comprising the steps of:

• (a) accessing a time-marked log containing vehicle data for one or more parameters of vehicle use;
• (b) for each record in the time-marked log:
• (i) identifying, based on the one or more predefined use conditions, those conditions which are relevant to data in the record;
• (ii) arranging the relevant conditions into an order of precedence;
• and
• (iii) comparing the data in the record with the relevant conditions as ordered and assessing whether the vehicle is compliant
• wherein the order of precedence for spatial access conditions is:
• absolute inclusion;
• exclusion;
• inclusion;
• background.