NaviSpotter is vessel tracking software for shipping companies. It facilitates logistics operations in many areas including Chartering, Crewing, Purchasing. Apart of similar services NaviSpotter does not use AIS signal which is limited by VHF range, our services coverage is world wide and limited by coverage of your internet provider only. Nowadays 90% of Earth and 100% of main shipping routes covered by major satellite internet service providers.
The main difference is that you track your vessel over it's real planned route, which is imported from vessel's ECDIS
GPS data is fetched by our client apllication and then encoded data is being sent to Navispotter server over secure HTTPS connection for further processing & displaying to the end user. The data being collected could be accessed by the vessel's owner / operator only or by users who were expressively granted such access by the vessel's owner / operator. Navispotter does not share the data to third parties including anonymised statistical data.
One of advantages of our service is the abscence of necesity to install any additional hardware / equipment. All that you need is already existing on board. The only thing remained to do is to connect a bridge computer with internet connection to GPS or GPS splitter with serial cable.
N.B. : Use shielded cable in order to prevent an interference from radar's waveducts and/or other emitting
equipment which may cause NMEA signal corruption.
Connect the computer to a GPS receiver or NMEA splitter as shown on the picture...
N.B. : Use shielded cable in order to prevent an interference from radar's waveducts and/or other emitting
equipment which may cause NMEA signal corruption.
Start NaviSpotter.exe...
Choose baud rate by control [2] Standard for NMEA 0183 is 4800
For R4 Navigation System please check real baudrate for a connected
output port. Setting could be found in GPS "I/O Config" menu. Please refer
to picture below.
IMPORTANT!!! DO NOT CHANGE BAUD RATE SETTING OF GPS UNIT ITSELF
Click button [3] to apply settings and open COM port.
In case all setting were made right COM [3] LED will start blinking and correct GPS data will be displayed on the program's screen.
The info window could be called by clicking a vessel's symbol on the map. First screen displays general info including:
Second screen (scroll down to view) displays vessel's speed over last 24 hours. To se the speed value hover mouse pointer over the graph.
Third screen displays short Master's notes if any. N.B. In case there are no notes
available third screen will not appear.
Navispotter provides data for over 3600 sea ports world wide. The data presentation provided in convenient form covering most points of interest.
Right click on a vessel activates range measuring circle. To measure a distance to an object drag a white handle on the circle. In case last received speed is above the zero in addition to a measured distance the ETA will be shown. To close the measuring tool right click it.
Speed vector is showing the distance the vessel will make with the present speed. Vector length could be set in range between 1 & 96 hours. Information could be useful in case of propulsion failures in order to estimate vessel's estimated position or for rough estimations of ETA to a certain points. Vector is being built from the last received position
In order to use the distance/bearing ruler click ruler pictogram [1], place measuring pins [2] between objects to measure, read measured data in the field [3]. To deactivate the ruler click it again.
By pressing the secret combination of keys covert security alert will be risen and
appropriate message will be dispatched. The alert feature works even if the
Navispotter window is not in focused or resides in system's tray.
Important! The security alert feature does NOT substitute conventional
SSAS security buttons and
is additional mean to alert the Company only.
The SpeedSense™ is innovating speed control feature based on machine learning. Self learning algorithm uses history data and location of a vessel to estimate whether slowing down is planned or not and alerts in case unexpected slowing down is occurred. No any inputs from user are necessary.
Nowadays most on-board mail systems still work by store and forward model, therefore delivery of messages depends on frequency of e-mail exchanges performed by a Master. Navispotter messaging service works in different way, ship's client checks for new messages every 60 seconds and pop them up immediately with very low traffic consumed.
Visual presentation of Sulfur Emission Control Areas allows to monitor voyages & plan bunkering using together charted SECAs, route presentation & immediate vessel's position.
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\sermouse]
"Start"=dword:00000004
C:\Users\[YOUR USERNAME]\AppData\Roaming\NaviSpotter
C:\Documents and Settings\[YOUR USERNAME]\Application Data\Roaming\NaviSpotter
%appdata%\NaviSpotter
Solution: Set Navispotter COM Port settings to the settings of GPS Unit
Solution: Try to set baud to lower rates [ only if no other navigation
equipment is connected to the same GPS unit!!! ]
Solution:
Make sure your serial cables are not excessively long, especially in electrically noisy environments
which a wheelhouse actually is.
In general a serial cable should not be longer than 15 mtrs for communication at 9600bps. Faster speeds
require shorter cables, slower speeds allow longer cables. In general, the shorter the cable and the
slower the serial speed the more reliable the connection will be.