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Take control of your marine security surveillance with AIS traffic tracking and management
To ensure a safe marine site, it is fundamental to be able to manage and to control vessel traffic live. Technologies such as AIS allows harbors or any kind of marine infrastructure to monitor the surrounding environment. Knowing the AIS classification and interpreting the data in a unique monitor are basics that make the difference when taking control of your marine security.
Automatic Identification System
AIS makes it possible to identify ships in any circumstance. This technology is an automated system for exchanging messages between ships via VHF radio waves. It allows you to know the identity, position, course, MMSI number (Maritime Mobile Service Identity) and the route of each boat crossing the controlled area. Any installation equipped with an AIS system may communicate live by message to one or more specific targets. AIS systems can also be installed on floating objects (buoys) or fixed objects (lighthouses) to identify them quickly.
There are four main categories of AIS Class. Each with a specific purpose:
AIS Class A
his type of AIS corresponds to commercial vessels: passenger ships, cargo ships, service vessels, fishing vessels or warships. These boats are subject to the SOLAS (Safety of Life at Sea) international convention and are equipped with a powerful VHF system for long distance communication.
AIS Class B
AIS Class B includes recreational boats. These can be sailboats or motor boats but cannot accommodate more than 12 passengers carried, in addition to crew members.
AIS SAR
SAR for "Search and Rescue" defines all targets in distress or rescue situations.
AIS SART
This target corresponds to transponder devices used in distress and rescue situations.
AIS Technology for live maritime traffic monitoring
AIS systems allow you to have a permanent control over your maritime environment. Without visual recognitiolead n or even without radar (night, rainy or foggy weather, low radar echo), all data relating to vessels and ships around your area are displayed on your monitor and their location overlaid in the marine chart.
A software solution offers the possibility to display up to 1000 AIS targets. It is also possible to define each target according to a specific color code and to classify them manually or automatically. All information and data collected are displayed and monitored into a single interface!
AIS advanced compatibility with NMEA
The National Marine Electronics Association (NMEA) is a standard communication protocol that allows information to pass from one marine equipment to another, or from a computer to an equipment and vice versa.
The vessel traffic management solution is natively compatible with all commercially available NMEA 0183 AIS receivers/transponders. This standard is based on 8-bit readable sequential sentences and, devices using this protocol must be connected via a serial port or a COM port.
An exclusive technical alliance with Furuno, the world leader in marine electronics, makes our solutions the best monitoring system. Furuno FA-30 and Furuno FA-170 AIS devices can come with with an Ethernet output which makes it easier to interface with a Vessel Traffic System. For automatic or manual sending of AIS messages, an AIS type A is required, such as the Furuno FA-170.