Category : AIS

AIS receivers and transponders

AIS for dummies

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With the progressive generalization of the AIS (transceivers) aboard our pleasure boats (¹), and their obligatory presence on board a large proportion of commercial ships, capacities for display and processing of targets (surrounding vessels equipped with a transceiver) have significantly improved our security. Still need to know how to interpret this information that, in high-traffic areas, can quickly become a real headache.

In such a situation, better have a quick diagnosis of the risk of collision ! (Weather4D 2.0)

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AIS-Wi-Fi transponder less then 590 euros

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Camino-108WLa société Taiwanaise Alltek Marine Electronics, aussi connue sous l’acronyme AMEC, s’est spécialisée depuis 2006 dans la conception et la fabrication d’appareils AIS. In his presentation, AMEC annonce avoir été fondée avec the aim de fournir le meilleur de l’électronique marine for navigation, communication and la sécurité. Dans la poursuite de this goal, AMEC s’est engagé to provide AIS solutions to meet customer expectations for the qualité, the performances, les valeurs et les services. Ses solutions s’adressent to navires commerciaux, navires de pêche and bateaux de plaisance. Read more …

AIS, the second maritime revolution after the GPS

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AIS takes a growing place, for two or three years, in the concerns of leisure boaters. Several articles refer to it in this blog, as for equipment as for applications available for our Mac, iPad or iPhone.
Note to neophytes in this subject, or to confirm the knowledge of the most informed of you, it seemed useful to clarify what the AIS means, while just held in Hamburg, the 15 and 16 of June, the international conference AIS Summit. Read more …

A test onboard with Navigation Mac

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During a somewhat sad weekend in January, we joined the port of L'Herbaudière, Isle of Noirmoutier, via the picturesque Gois passage at low tide.

We, that is to say, a boating journalist, my wife and myself.

Welcomed by two “naturals” of the country, Henri and Jean-Etienne. The latter putting his superb Océanis at our disposal 347 for the first on-board test, In France, navigation applications on Mac, iPad and iPhone. A great first, somehow. Read more …

Receive AIS data wirelessly with iNavX

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I explained, in a recent post, how to receive NMEA data from on-board instruments without using a Mac (or a PC) on board. It is now possible to do the same thing for receiving AIS data with an iPad or iPhone.

Digital Yacht has developed a new AIS receiver for use with Apple mobile devices. iAIS, is its name, transmits navigation data received from ships via WiFi to dedicated applications on iPhone or iPad via the TCP/IP protocol. Featured with AIS dual-channel A and B receiver, it also allows compatible applications access to NMEA data from on-board instruments. Read more …