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Vessel Tracking

Fulcrum Maritime Systems offers a state of the art vessel tracking system for monitoring your fleet. Fleet Master is a purpose built system designed after consultation with the industry to give an efficient and useful tracking interface to any ship manager.

The system has the following features:

  • Secure web based tracking system
  • Monitor your fleet from anywhere
  • No licence fees
  • No installation requirements
  • Continuous monitoring
  • Automated tracking of vessels
  • View list of fleet
  • Display individual vessel details
  • View entire fleet on global map interface
  • View individual vessel on global map interface
  • Supports compatible Inmarsat C, Mini C, ISatM2M equipment
  • Can use compatible equipment that is already installed, minimising costs
  • Ability to poll vessel for an immediate location
  • Ability to suspend reporting
  • Ability to change frequency of reporting at the touch of a button
  • Automated alerting if vessel stops reporting
  • Customisable alert zones with automated email alerting when vessel enters or leaves zone
  • View alert zones on global map interface
  • View satellite image or plain map interface
  • View transit history for each vessel to assist with calculation of voyage statistics and vessel performance
  • 24/7 system support
  • Multi-lingual support team

 

 

How does it work?

The vessel tracking system uses satellite technology to receive a signal from a vessel.

 

The vessel must have a piece of equipment installed onboard that is capable of transmitting a signal containing the required data. Not all equipment can send all types of data. The equipment must be able to send the date, time, latitude, longitude and ship identification at the very least. Other information that can be transmitted include the speed, direction and weather conditions. The signal is beamed via a satellite to a Land Earth Station. The Land Earth Station is a receiving station (satellite dish) on land. The Land Earth Station is managed by a Communications Service Provider (like a telephone service provider). The Communication Service Provider is responsible for managing the satellite network and the Land Earth Station.

 

The Land Earth Station receives the ship position information and sends it to Fulcrum across a secure, encrypted channel. Using this technology, the vessel position information can be transmitted from anywhere on the earth’s surface, so the vessel is tracked continuously and automatically. The expansion of the satellite networks means that this technology is increasingly being used for such applications as vessel tracking. The advantage of using satellite technology is that it is private, secure data and is not publicly available.

 

A position report is received from the vessel at a pre-defined frequency, so that the vessel manager can monitor the vessel in transit, e.g. every 3 hours or every 6 hours. The position information is made available to the vessel manager across the internet, making the data available from anywhere around the world, provided that an internet browser and an internet connection are available. No special software is needed to access the system.

 

The Fulcrum system uses a method of connection across the internet called a ‘secure socket layer’, which means that when the vessel manager connects to the system, the data channel between the computer that the vessel manager is using and the Fulcrum system is encrypted to ensure that the data is secure. Web sites that use this method of securing data start with https://....... (e.g. if you use internet banking, you will use this). In order to access the system, the vessel manager must have a valid username and password.

Approved used

In Aegean Electronics you can find a wide range of approved used equipment. Our technical team chooses them among the huge piles of the vessels' demolition yards very carefully. After they enter our workshop, they are being processes to a thorough check, they are properly maintaned and upgraded to meet the manufacturers' standards. Most of them can be delivered even with 6 months warranty to our clients.

Spare parts

Our continuously replenished wide stock of spare parts in Aegean Electronics, is one of our competitive advantages to meet the soonest possible any potential requistion from the ships. Our main target however is to be able to repair any electronic equipment either by attending on board or off shore. We can deliver elsewhere several manufacturers' spare parts at a very competitive prices.

Technical Services

Aegean Electronics' engineers are very experience, duly expertise and continuously educated on the new technologies, and they contribute a team that provide any vessel with technical services and radio & s-vdr surveys on-board and off-shore. Our accuracy, the systematic working and the speed characterize our works. All technical services are provided at a very competitive rates.

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