The Marine Electronics Hub
Several companies are offering solutions that allow users to seamlessly roam between different types of (data and voice) networks, based on availability, but also preferences like bandwith and cost. Typically these solutions are hardware...
KVH has developed a new system, eTrac, allowing crew to send out an emergency message containing realt-time position data. Other systems are availaible, but this complies with all new standards like SOLAS and has...
When GPS fails, it’s good to be able to use celestial navigation. A new product is available that will allow you to use it faster. “After many years of effort, the PROFIX 2004 software...
Article in The Boating News detailing the effort to stuff an Island Packet 485 with electronics. It’s high-end from a main-stream perspective, and the company that carries out the work offers some learnings. “One...
All the basic building blocks of the radar system fully integrated on one chip, including power generation, signal processing, and dozens of other functions? This would save a lot of precious space on ships...
Real-time access to high-quality weather information is as much important as it is difficult. Since internet access is not (yet) ubiquitous, alternatives are popping up that seem to combine strengts of all available technologies....
A roundup over at Motor Boating Magazine of different GPS related electronics that will be hot on the market this year. “For the must-have-it-all skippers, the multifunction, full-featured combinations are most desirable. Furuno, Northstar,...
An alarm system that can be hooked up to your outdoor soundsystem might provide a very good solution when problems arise, be it thieves or water. “Billed as �The only marine alarm system that...
It’s been out for a while, but it received one of Motor Boating Editors� Choice Awards. I think it’s a good example of how boats are being (wirelessly) networked, and that displays therefore do...
Was reading an article in Slasdot on 3D displays that do not require any glasses to work. I was just imagining that this could be a convenient interface for all kind of data and...
