Touch-screen AIS from Vesper Marine
Touch-screen AIS from Vesper Marine
Vesper Marine, a leading AIS manufacturer launched its WatchMate Vision Class B transponder, the world’s first dedicated Class B AIS with touch-screen control for leisure vessels and workboats.
The WatchMate Vision has been specifically designed to overcome the challenges of operating at sea and for users requiring remote access to AIS information via their wireless devices.
Vesper Marine has designed the WatchMate Vision to be easy to use in the marine environment. Users place pressure on the WatchMate Vision screen to perform an action, negating the possibility of misplaced movements causing an operational error.
In practice, the system is user friendly and can be accurately controlled with ease, even when hands are wet or wearing gloves. The full colour touch screen is capable of operating in direct sunlight, providing a rich user experience with minimal power consumption.
WatchMate Vision also allows AIS clutter to be removed from the display, so only the targets that have a current collision risk are shown. The user can customise the powerful filter features to their current situation as well as view coastal outlines, for enhanced content and location awareness.
A magnifier automatically pops up when necessary and enables targets to be selected and viewed in closer detail without losing position context and scale.
The WatchMate Vision is also the first dedicated display based AIS transponder to integrate WiFi functionality, allowing AIS interaction with any wireless smartphone, tablet or laptop.
It can be operated as a WiFi device in two ways, either as an access point to send data to be displayed on wireless devices, or act as a wireless client to integrate seamlessly into an existing network with other marine electronic systems. The WatchMate Vision can also be connected via USB as well as NMEA 2000 and NMEA 0183.
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