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Press Releases / The future / The Trade

DAME Design Awards 2024 winner commended as strong step forward in lifejacket design

TUDelft School for Industrial Design Engineering senior lecturer, Arjen Jansen, presented the globally recognised DAME Design Awards 2024 to the TeamO Offshore 150N Hi-Lift Lifejacket & Harness in front of a large audience of leading marine professionals at the METSTRADE Breakfast Briefing this morning. The Jury also identified eight category winners, nine Special Mentions and named two Environmental DAME Design Awards winners…

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LiFePO4 / Electrical & Engines / The future

IBEX 2024: Solid State Marine’s solid state lithium batteries

In a first for IBEX, this year’s show featured a startup pavilion for early-stage companies to display at IBEX in a cost effective manner. I spent some time checking out the exhibitors in the pavilion and was very pleased to come across Solid State Marine’s booth. I was quite excited to see Solid State Marine present with their solid state lithium batteries. Solid State Marine is, to my knowledge, the first company offering solid state lithium batteries to the marine electrical market.

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Press Releases / Safety & SAR / The future

Maritime machine vision pioneer SEA.AI to unveil its new product ‘Brain’ at FLIBS 2024

Since its launch in 2018, SEA.AI has developed a product line that combines the very latest in machine vision and artificial intelligence technology to provide a vital missing piece in the electronic safety and anti-collision arsenal for vessels of all sizes. The latest offering is the Brain, an innovative product designed to enhance existing thermal camera systems, transforming them into intelligent, automated detection tools…

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Press Releases / The future / NMEA 2000, 0183 & Signal K / Monitoring & Tracking

Maretron Announces the Launch of MConnect

Maretron, a renowned leader in marine technology, is excited to announce the launch of its groundbreaking new product, MConnect. This state-of-the-art web server connects seamlessly with a boat’s NMEA 2000 network, offering unparalleled access to hundreds of data points for comprehensive monitoring of vessel devices and components. MConnect is now available with an introductory price of $599…

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Press Releases / Network & control / The future / The Trade / NMEA 2000, 0183 & Signal K

AIRMAR Achieves World’s First OneNet Product Certification

 AIRMAR Technology Corporation, a world leader in ultrasonic transducers and Chirp technology is excited to announce their SmartBoat® Solution has achieved OneNet certification, the third generation NMEA Standard for marine data interfacing and networking. SmartBoat is the only marine electronics solution that integrates devices using current, future, and legacy standards including NMEA 0183, NMEA 2000, and OneNet.

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Network & control / The future

Starlink Mini is available, but with limited data options

We’ve been hearing about Starlink’s Mini terminal for a long time now. Recently, hints from regulatory filings, new documents on their website, preparation for the new terminal in the app, and even a Tweet from Elon Musk made it seem the introduction was imminent. This week, Starlink made links on the website live and started sending emails to some long time subscribers offering an opportunity to purchase the new terminal. Now we have the opportunity to see if the Mini answers some of boater’s gripes with the current hardware.

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Getting Technical / Editors' Blog / Network & control / The future / The Trade

Getting Technical: Standard upgrade

NMEA OneNet is the National Marine Electronics Association’s most recent standard, one of only three major electronics standards the organization has released in the past 40-plus years. First came NMEA 0183 in 1983, then NMEA 2000 in 2001, and now OneNet. The previous standards stood the test of time. In fact, despite being 41 years old, NMEA 0183 continues to be built into many electronics and remains the preferred standard for many light commercial vessels.

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Network & control / Communications / The future

Starlink spring 2024, making sense of continued changes

It’s been a little while since I’ve posted a Starlink update. Frankly, that’s because things have (mostly) been humming along pretty well with a relative minimum of changes. While there have been developments, including new hardware, none of them called to me for an update. Until last week. That’s when subscribers to Starlink’s Mobility – Global package received an email notifying them their monthly charges would double. So, now seems like a good time to dive back in and take a look at the state of affairs at SpaceX and Starlink.