Sharing common Traffic Picture by Inter VTS

Exchange System (IVEF)

Jeffrey van Gils

18 February 2015

Settings / Scope

• North Sea;• Exchange of Traffic Image

between ship and shore vv

• Dutch Coastguard shore system

• Ship Barend Biesheuvel

Possibilities• On-scene command;• SAR tasks;• VTS / Monitoring tasks; • VTS outside territorial waters;• Port entry by vessels.

What is most important• Decrease of communication errors; • Reliable information;• Common information.

Extension of coverage

Completenes of image

Small objects• Nearby• Accuracy

Passenger vesselRADAR

RADAR beam

Technical

Connectionchose GatewayOn-board

IBSAIS

GPS antenna

RADARARPA

(NMEA)

NMEA

NMEA

Heading

NMEAISIS test server

3G/LTE

VSATVSAT provider

Mobile provider

IVEF IVEF

Coastguard VTSTraffic image

IVEF

IVEF de-encriptor

NMEA

Display

Display

Radar/AIS/Heading

(IBS)

Sensor DataConverter

EncoderDecoderARAMIS

Data LInk

IVEFCoastguard ISIS

EncoderDecoder

Data LInk

On Board On Shore

Result

Reactions

• Ship side:– Verified targets and additional information;– Extended coverage (better planning);– Drifting buoys or other drifting material.

• Shore side:– Verified targets;– Better view on small targets;– Backup or extension fallback solution.

Conclusion• Saves money on installing and maintaining sensors like radar

and AIS stations;• Possibility to verify your data with data of partners;• Track smaller targets than possible from shore only;• Share a common harmonized picture over a specific area with

partners (shore and ships);• Ability to look and search further than your own sensors farm;• Ability to have data available when needed in areas normally

not covered;• Possible fall back solution.

Next steps (1)

IVEF

IVEF

P&O passenger ship

IVEF

Govermental ship

IVEF

IVEF

IVEF(optional)

Maritime Cloud

IVEFservice

IVEF

VTS Port of Rotterdam

Dutch Coastguard VTS

Coastguard VTS United KingdomVTS

Harwich

IVEFservice

IVEFservice

IVEFservice

IVEFservice

IVEFservice

TrafficImage

TrafficImage

TrafficImage

TrafficImage

TrafficImage

TrafficImage

Next steps (2)

• Quality assurance of the data;• Responsibility of the data;• Legislation about sharing data;• Communications costs;• Implementation costs for current (proprietary)

systems.