Introducing the DataHub by PredictWind
Track, blog, save & broadcast all your onboard data sources
We’re proud to announce the arrival of our latest product, the DataHub by PredictWind. This small but powerful GPS Tracker is custom designed from the ground up, with extra features to make your coastal or offshore tracking, data, and communications easier than ever.
The DataHub can connect to the NMEA backbone so all the data on board your vessel can be logged and transmitted. This has many real-world applications such as enriching GPS tracking data with wind speed and direction through to more complex tasks such as yacht performance polar development.
For those making passages to foreign countries, you can overcome sim card restrictions by connecting a local sim to the Datahub and broadcasting the cell data to other devices on-board. You can also switch off your satellite-based GPS tracking and let the Datahub take over your tracking updates via cell data.
PredictWind CEO Jon Bilger commented, “We saw an opportunity to give our customers a device that fills the gap with GPS tracking. We ended up with a fantastic product with endless uses. Data logging for insurance purposes, remote support for any connected product on board, satellite GPS tracking for Iridium Certus products, and many more applications are all available with this device. I think our customers will love this product and find multiple ways to make life easier using the DataHub”.
Find out more about the DataHub here https://www.predictwind.com/datahub/
DataHub Overview Video https://youtu.be/qKNOzDWpbtc
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Very interesting! This is a reasonably priced marine WiFi router with GPS, NMEA 2000, and many cruising features built in. While optimized to work with PredictWind’s popular weather and tracking/blogging services, it seems like it could also do a lot on its own.
Moreover, the DataHub was developed by Luis Soltero, who has an illustrious history with related projects:
https://panbo.com/team-soltero-starpilot-gmn-redport-bliss-so-much-more/
In fact, the DataHub manual includes a link to MV Bliss’s track/blog as Kim and Luis tested the DataHub down into the Bahamas:
https://forecast.predictwind.com/tracking/display/MV_Bliss/
Read the press release, watched the video, read online comments on forums… and still have no clue why I need this. I have Iridium GO w/Predictwind and InReach. They keep harping on GPS. There are a slew of GPS devices on my vessel.
Looking forward to Panbo comments.
Agreed, Dennis, you probably don’t need a DataHub as it’s meant in part to do what your Iridium GO and inReach are already doing for you. In this case, the user provides their own Internet connections via Ethernet, WiFi or USB — be they satellite, cell, or WiFi shore AP as availability permits — to get inReach style tracking plus the PredictWind weather, blogging etc.
So some boaters might use the DataHub to get by with cell their best internet connection, and others might use it to avoid low bandwidth satellite service costs when they already have a better sat connection. The Hub can also serve boat data to nav apps, share its internet connections with various devices, and log data for later uploading (and/or polar building).
I will add that PredictWind allows users to simultaneously register both a GO and the DataHub on their tracking account. This allows for real time updates to the tracking page when offshore via the GO and tracking via the DataHub when in costal waters with LTE Internet. Users with dual GO/DataHub systems can then suspend their Iridium Airtime plans while in coastal waters and still keep their blog/tracking up to date. For short offshore trips it may not be worth activating the Iridium airtime. The DataHub would then store position reports on its SD card while out of coverage and then post them when the Internet link becomes average. For these short trips updates would not be real time but nothing would be lost. Just posted at a later date.
–Luis
Interested in buying the datahub, do you know of there is any option for anchor alarm available?
its in process for release late q4 2022… so soon. The there is a mobile app that communicates with the Hub on your vessel locally via WiFi, over the internet when not on the boat, or over satellite when no internet.
There are alerts for depth, wind gusts, anchor drag, swing threshold and others…
look for an announcement soon.
–Luis
@Luis, What’s the performance of the router like? I’m considering using this as the router for my Starlink, and sharing that 150Mbps connection with three or four other devices/users on board our 40-foot yacht. I appreciate its not designed specifically as a router, and doesn’t have antennas etc, so just concerned about signal strength around the vessel and through-put.