Boats, boat electronics and software
Modern cars have a lot of technology. Modern boats have some, but not nearly as much as cars. Below is a comparison of the car and boat tech as of today. Cars Boats and yachts Cruise control Not really, but also not needed as the speed will not vary that much and the exact speed … Read More “Which of the car tech can be found on boats and yachts?” »
Commercial chartplotters are expensive, really expensive. Considering that you can get a 10″ tablet device with better touch screen, faster processor, better responsiveness and much smaller size with a 1/4 of the chart plotter cost, it seems like chartplotters are totally overpriced. I cartel, someone might suspect. That is what I also thought, but then … Read More “Designing a commercial marine chartplotter – not as easy as it may sound like” »
NMEA 2000 (standardized as IEC 61162-3), abbreviated NMEA2k or N2K, is a plug-and-play communications standard, which is used on boats and ships to connect together devices, displays and sensors. The speed of the NMEA 2000 bus is 250 kbit/s and it enables sensors and displays and any other NMEA 2000 compatible devices to “discuss” together. … Read More “NMEA 2000 PGN’s deciphered” »
Inspired by OSCAR Navigation collision avoidance system, I wanted to test how an off-the-shelf Artificial Intelligence (AI), specifically deep neural network based object labeling system, would work on maritime collision avoidance application. AI would be responsible for the labeling of the objects and marking their location in the image. If it can be done with … Read More “Testing Artificial Intelligence (deep neural networks) for maritime collision avoidance” »
