Iridium offers electronic chart service for maritime industry

Staff writer
27 May 2011
00:00

Iridium Communications has deployed its revolutionary ENCTrack electronic chart distribution service to Datema Delfzijl B.V. which uses global satellite data links provided by Iridium.

ENCTrack is the first and only postpaid electronic cartography licensing and provisioning service that charges ships only for the charts actually used. This method eliminates the need for license management and substantially improves safety at sea.

GTT Systems B.V., an Iridium value-added manufacturer and reseller, together with its sister company Leap Development B.V., developed the Iridium ship tracking device for the ENCTrack service.

Datema’s “pay-as-you-sail” service records the ship’s movements accurately using the GTT Systems tracking device, which sends position reports at intervals through the Iridium short-burst data (SBD) service. The position reports received via Iridium are fed into a redundant gateway server, which generates invoices based on the duration of use and the charts used.

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