Abstract: Methods and systems for automatically checking-in a vehicle upon its return to a station or depot. A computing device may receive fleet management data that includes a return location for the vehicle from a fleet management system. The computing device may also receive geolocation data collected by an on-board unit of the vehicle, and use the received fleet management data and the received geolocation data to determine whether the vehicle is at its return location. The computing device may then close a contract associated with the vehicle in response to determining that the vehicle is at the return location. Closing the contract may include incrementing a total rental fee value based on a total rental mileage, a return time that the vehicle entered the return location, whether the total rental mileage is within an expected rental mileage, whether the return time is before an expected return time, etc.

Abstract: Methods and systems for detecting malfunctioning on-board telematics units in vehicles. A computing device may receive a first and second geofence location for a vehicle from a fleet management system. The computing device may determine whether it received a third location from an on-board telematics unit of the vehicle within a time period between receiving the first geofence location and receiving the second geofence location. The computing device may determine that the on-board telematics unit associated with the vehicle is in a state of anomaly in response to determining that the third location was not received from the on-board telematics unit of the vehicle within a time period between receiving the first geofence location and receiving the second geofence location.

Abstract: Methods and systems for detecting malfunctioning on-board telematics units in vehicles. A computing device may receive a first and second geofence location for a vehicle from a fleet management system. The computing device may determine whether it received a third location from an on-board telematics unit of the vehicle within a time period between receiving the first geofence location and receiving the second geofence location. The computing device may determine that the on-board telematics unit associated with the vehicle is in a state of anomaly in response to determining that the third location was not received from the on-board telematics unit of the vehicle within a time period between receiving the first geofence location and receiving the second geofence location.

Abstract: Methods and systems for identifying stock anomalies in a fleet management system. A computing device may be configured to receive a geofence location for a first vehicle from the fleet management system, and receive a second location from an on-board telematics unit of the first vehicle. The computing device may determine whether the received second location is within the received geofence location. The computing device may determining that the first vehicle is in a state of anomaly in response to determining that the received second location is not within the received geofence location.

Abstract: The present teachings relate to a method of maintaining a vehicle availability report with respect to a first location comprising determining the number of vehicles of a first type within a predetermined geofence at the first location determining the number of vehicles of the first type due to leave the first location within a predetermined time period determining whether the number of vehicles of the first type within the predetermined geofence is more than, equal to or less than the number of vehicles of the first type due to leave the first location within the predetermined time period and updating the vehicle availability report based on a result of each determining step.

Abstract: The present teachings relate to a method of creating a geofence for a first location comprising receiving a time that a first vehicle was at the first location from a fleet management system, receiving a time that the first vehicle was at a second location from an on-board telematics unit of the first vehicle, determining if the first vehicle was at the second location for a predetermined period of time before or after being at the first location, and creating the geofence for the first location as including the second location if it is determined that the first vehicle was at the second location for the predetermined period of time before or after being at the first location.