The work of the expert group
Peter Stuurman chairman ad interim
Saturday, 09 April 2011
Key technology: Tracking and Tracing
• Tracking and tracing of inland navigation vessels is an
important part of the “River Information Services” (RIS)
for the improvement of safety and efficiency in the
sector.
It supports onboard navigation, shore-based traffic
monitoring as part of Vessel Traffic Services (VTS) and
other tasks such as calamity abatement.
• Inland AIS (Automatic Identification System) is a
standardized procedure for the automatic exchange of
nautical data between ships and between ships and
shore installations
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Our tasks and objectives
• The European RIS Platform established in 2003 the
expert group Vessel Tracking and Tracing. The main
task of this expert group is the development and
maintenance of a European wide harmonized vessel
tracking and tracing standard for inland navigation.
• Because of mixed traffic areas it is important that the
standards and procedures for inland shipping are
compatible with already defined standards and
procedures for seagoing navigation.
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Our most important product
the standard Vessel tracking and tracing
• AIS is a cooperative procedure, therefore all those wishing to use
and participate in the system must be equipped with an AIS device.
• Both standards and harmonized procedures are required to ensure
the safe interoperability of AIS devices from various manufacturers
• The standardization of tracking and tracing for inland navigation
includes both the Standard and Test Standard of Inland AIS. These
standards define:
Functional and technical requirements for Inland AIS devices,
Specification of AIS messages for the exchange of messages
between Inland AIS devices via radio,
Specification of AIS data sets for data exchange between
Inland AIS devices and connected applications.
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All VTT products until 2011
• Vessel tracking and tracing standard for inland
Navigation 1.01
fomalised by UN/ECE, EU and CCNR
• Test standard for Inland AIS
formalised by CCNR
• Technical clarifications on Vessel Tracking and Tracing
and the test standard for Inland AIS
- formalised by CCNR
• Inland AIS installation Guidelines
not to be formalised according to the expert group
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What are we busy now in 2011
• New version of the VTT standard published by the EU ( june
2011??)
• Class B transponders
• Inland AIS silent mode
• Inland AIS in Ecdis
• AIS on board of convoys
• External MKD
• IRIS-Europe II sub activity 4
Quality of Information Services for VTT
• Exchange of experiences during implementation
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Class Transponder
• Class B transponder are meant for non commercial vessels (inland
and at sea)
• Certification is needed according to international standards
• How to have the information if a class B transponders is certified.
1) an international register publishing all certified class B
transponders
2) Mandatory certificate on board
• We have to include Class B transponders in the standard as a type
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Inland AIS in silent mode
• On the moment there is a Inland AIS system on the marked with a
silent mode function. The silent mode makes it possible that the
Inland AIS system can be switched to a receiving mode, within
sending messages.
• As long as the use of AIS is not mandatory, it does not make sense
to deal with silent mode. When Inland AIS is mandatory by
regulation then the regulation should includes rules to have it On
during navigation
• The expert group will come with an advice how to deal with the
silent mode and in which situations it can be used
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Inland AIS in ECDIS
• a discussion with representatives of Inland ECDIS took place about
how to deal with preferred sets of display.
• the proposed standard set of symbols should be included in the
charts system.
• The system providers are allowed to add own symbols beside the
standard set of symbols
• VTT proposes the minimum set of functions that the charts should
be able to display.
• Inland ECDIS will propose the way to translate these functions into
symbols to be displayed.
• There is still some discussion about the use of the blue sign
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AIS on board of convoys
• A proposal was prepared about the AIS requirements of different
convoys configurations
• We distinguish 4 situations
Situation 1. Push tow/ individuals own propulsion
Situation 2. Push tow/ individuals not own propulsion
Situation 3. Combination of two vessels (side by
side)
Situation 4. Combination: one vessel towed by
another vessel
• Proposal will be worked out now
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External Minimum Keyboard display (MKSD)
• Still a point of discussion in relation to the need of MKD’s and the
possibility of having so called software MKD’s
• A small working group will work a proposal with the requirements
for allowance of an external MKD
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IRIS Europe II
• IRIS Europe II, Activity 4 deals with the introduction of Quality of
Information Services in the RIS context. Main objective is the
elaboration of harmonised European (minimum) quality
requirements and definitions for RIS services.
• Within SuAc 4.1 the general approach as well as selection of
relevant services and quality parameters was elaborated and the
approach for the definition of the QoIS was defined.
• Based on these results, the QoIS for VTT were investigated within
SuAc 4.5. This document provides the QoIS for the most relevant
quality parameters for a representative selection of VTT services.
• The results out of Activity 4 shall provide a solid basis for the further
harmonised definition of European (minimum) quality requirements
in the RIS context.
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Questions
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