Navigation news in brief
- Kelvin Hughes claims its ice navigation radar installed in a MantaDigital radar matches or exceeds the performance of special-purpose ice navigation radars at much lower cost.
- Raytheon Anschütz has released a new advanced steering control system, NautoSteer AS, where all important components such as follow-up amplifiers, autopilots, interface units and alarm monitoring units are connected via redundant CAN-bus systems.
- Applied Weather Technology offers safe passage functionality including identification of pirate attack areas, war risk waters and rogue wave regions as part of their GlobalView fleet management system.
- Baytek has released new monitors which are resistant to corrosion and guaranteed to provide optimal readability of the display day or night. They are suitable for newbuilding or retrofit.
- Totem Plus has released a new ECDIS which interprets Colregs and accurately advises on which course to steer to avoid collision.
- SAM Electronics’ NACOS Platinum series of integrated bridge systems is based on the concept of identical components and a common network to provide all navigation functions as well as those for alarm, monitoring and control, propulsion control and power management.
