Key features and benefits • Standard AIS functionality • High quality, low maintenance“one unit”AIS Transponder with built in Minimum Keyboard Display (MKD) • Long range tracking capabilities • Display of AIS messages from aids to navigation (ATON) • Safety Related Messages (SRM) and Short Message Service support • Pilot plug integrated in display unit • Three modes of operation: – autonomous and continuous mode for operation in all the regions – assigned mode for operation in an area subject to a competent authority – a polling or control mode where the data transfer occurs on response to interrogation of vessels or competent authorities • Integration with external (D)GPS receiver, gyro compass, speed log, ECDIS/ECS and radars • Input and output communication ports for integrated bridge systems • Channel management capability (regional AIS frequencies) • Easy upgrade • 1W output power option for hazardous cargo handling • AIS Class B “carrier sense” messages support • Bracket or flush mounting Capabilities of ship borne ais equipment • Transas M-3 AIS automatically provides the following information to appropriately equipped shore stations, other ships and aircraft and receives it automatically from similarly equipped ships: – static data (IMO number, call sign and name, length and beam, type of ship, location of position fixed antenna onboard the ship) – dynamic data (ship position with accuracy and integrity status, UTC time, course over ground (COG), speed over ground (SOG), heading, navigational status, RAIM, rate-of-turn (ROT)) – voyage related data (ship’s draught, hazardous cargo type, destination and estimated time of arrival (ETA)) – safety related messages – international functional messages (meteorological and hydrological data, dangerous cargo indication, fairway closed, tidal window, extended ship static and voyage related data, number of persons onboard, pseudo-AIS targets) • Transas M-3 AIS monitors and tracks ships • Transas M-3 AIS exchanges data with shore-based facilities