Your gut feeling is part of the answer, but also logistics and maintenance of another system both hardware and software. There are solutions for this out there already like https://www.damageid.com/ that can do this.

I believe that the continued shift to less friction in the rental process will introduce more of these concepts around transparency in the process as well. As these technologies become more and more seemless and easy to maintain and manage, the suppliers will start to roll them out as customers demand it.