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VICTORIA Vessel Monitoring System
Victoria uses satellite GPS in conjunction with Inmarsat communication services to provide global, two-way, real-time, web-access to vessel position reporting, messaging and monitored data. It provides the user with an intuitive map-based interface with integration of a geographic information system and the communications for automatic tracking of ocean and sea-river type vessels.
VMS Victoria provides users with features:
・Track and trace vessels equipped with Inmarsat-C terminals and GPS receivers, with no assistance of a ship radio officer.
・Send and receive text messages to/from the vessel via Inmarsat-C
・Send a broadcast message to a group of vessels (EGG - Fleet Net).
・Make polling to request information on the current vessel position.
・Remotely control the mobile terminal for regular reporting every 10 minutes or with greater intervals up to 24 hours.
All that is required to track vessels and communicate to them using Victoria:
・a transceiver mobile terminal Inmarsat-C or Inmarsat D+ with GPS receiver for each vessel,
・an Internet/email-enabled computer, no special hardware is required above a standard office PC,
・an usual web browser Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator, version 4.0 or higher,
・for the first enter the user downloads a free map viewer through the Internet.
VMS Victoria is a powerful tool for vessel owners and port authorities, for rescue teams and coast guard. It is available 24 hours 7 days a week. About ten industrial servers and state-of-art software run for reliable uninterruptible service. The system is capable to serve to hundreds of simultaneously logged users without visible delays.
Well trained staffs with more than three years experience of system operation can support you on your way of use the system for ship monitoring through Inmarsat-C system, they provide you with appropriate recommendations on any problem you wish to solve.
The Victoria service is available for registered users that are mostly ship owners who are eligible to request information about their vessels only. The user can be sure in confidentiality of information about his fleet. Access to the system is protected by a password. The system is designed specifically to prevent non-authorized access and possible hacker attacks. Any user can apply for additional logins and passwords with specifically tailored restrictions if requested (for example, an individual is eligible to monitor only one or few specified ships, or with no right to send messages or make polling commands). The right to monitor the specific vessel can be delegated for a limited time to freight owners, shippers, to insurance companies, or to any person who needs to monitor vessel for the limited time.
Enter VMS Victoria through the Internet, the address is - http://victoria.marsat.ru. There are both Russian and English interfaces in the system. To learn more you can use the DEMO mode (user: Guest, password: Guest).
SUMMARY OF FEATURES OF VMS VICTORIA
・World wide coverage, the system works in all ocean regions (AOR-W, AOR-E, IOR, POR)
・You can analyze all the history of vessel routes. Alt information is stored in database for 3 years.
・You can download data about vessels routes in CSV/DBF format and work locally with this data on your own PC.
・To work with maps the system integrates a powerful geographic information engine based on Autodesk Mapguide TM
・Both type of maps can be requested by the user in different layers, the vector map of the scale of 1:1000000 with detailed coastline and raster map of the scale of 1:3500000.
・Any ship can be found both in the database and on the map
・An option to work with the system without maps in a text/table mode (the option "Text only") for users with low speed Internet access.
・An option to send poll command any time to request information on the current vessel position. The typical latency for poll command and updating ship position is 8 minutes maximum.
・Remote Inmarsat-C terminal programming for automatic reports with data on position, speed and course in the interval from 10 minutes up to 24 hours interval
・Supports all types of polling commands used in Inmarsat-C satellite system
・Broadcasts messages to ships at sea with different type of delivery
・Automatic decoding messages from ships with 5, 7 and 8-bits coding to plain text format, ready to work with
・An opportunity to divide fleet into groups to minimize cost of vessel monitoring by using group calls.
For more information send you enquiry to: psokolov@marsat.ru
Tel. +7 (095) 967-18-50 ext. 583 Fax. +7 (095) 795-32-11
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