ECDIS
Electronic Chart Display & Information SystemThe challenge
Today, navigators of ships at sea need advanced tools to help them maintain and improve situational awareness, reduce and prevent human error and ensure a safe and speedy passage. These tools are the modern equivalent of the paper charts that were used in the early days of maritime navigation.
These modern tools provide an extra layer of safety for ship operators to help prevent groundings or collisions, and are in fact required by standards set by the International Maritime Organization (IMO).
These advanced tools must not only improve navigational safety and orientation, but also reduce the navigator’s workload with automatic features such as route planning and monitoring, automatic ETA calculation and ENC updating.
These tools must also provide continuous data recording for later analysis.
Our solution
Paper charts were once the main tool for nautical planning and charting; nowadays, the safety and guidance they once provided are now ensured by modern technology in the form of Electronic Chart Display and Information Systems (ECDIS).
Kelvin Hughes’ new, fully-compliant ECDIS uses an integrated, type-approved display and incorporates all the market-leading software functionality of the previous MantaDigita ECDIS – updated with new, time-saving features for a truly multifunctional bridge system providing networked navigation and situational awareness.
Designed for ease of use, the ECDIS provides clear and relevant information to the operater, facilitating decision making to improve safety and efficiency at sea.
Improved route planning tools also allow detailed passage plans to be generated and exported to PDF.
Features and benefits
Features
- High-definition 24” and 27” displays for clear and detailed navigational data
- Each display can be a dedicated radar display or a multifunctional display combining radar, chart radar and ECDIS
- Fully redundant networked system for continuous reliability
- Efficient maintenance with full remote support capability
- Type-Approved in compliance with the EU Marine Equipment Directive for shipborne radar equipment CAT 1 and CAT
- Look-ahead capability
- Anchor watch
- Anchor dragging risk warning
- Navtex compatibility
- Maximisable chart area
- Best scale option
- AIS and radar target layers
- One-click chart updates and permit renewal
Benefits
- New software architecture means reduced waiting time for use
- Improved efficiency and safety
- Greater consistency in the display of ENC data, which reduces alarm fatigue
- Quick and easy installation
- For use in commercial retrofits and new shipbuilding
- Provides information such as anchorage area names with landmarks, lights and buoys viewable by efficiency and safety
