Abstract: A remote control device for a vehicle remote access system includes the housing, an input switch for selecting a vehicle control function, a control, a transmitter for transmitting a wireless signal from the control to the vehicle remote access system, and an attachment for mounting the housing on or integrating it with a separate article carried or worn by a user. The input switch can be a single pressible member, the number of time spaced sequential activations and the duration of each activation of which is determined by the control member to indicate a selected one of a plurality of distinctive vehicle control functions. The input switch member can alternately be a slidable or a rotary multi-position switch in which each position designates a distinct vehicle control function.

Abstract: In a system for remotely locating a mobile object and in particular of a vehicle on the basis of a remote control system comprising a control device associated with the mobile object, an identification device on the user side, for example with an associated transceiver or with separate transmitter and receiver devices, a transceiver or separate transmitter and receiver devices associated with the mobile object, and at least one antenna arrangement associated with the mobile object for bidirectional wireless communication with the identification device, the reception and/or transmission characteristics of the antenna arrangement can be set such that a monitored zone results around this mobile object which, observed in the horizontal plane, extends over a fan angle of at least substantially 360°. Means for the detection of the respective spacing between the identification device and the mobile object and/or for the detection of a change in this spacing are provided.