EMA Group’s BlueTraker® VMS fisheries monitoring satellite terminals have received Type Approval from the Indonesian Directorate General of Resources and Equipment, allowing sales and installations throughout the Republic of Indonesia.
The BlueTraker® VMS fisheries monitoring satellite terminals are the only Iridium satellite network based VMS terminals on the Indonesian market and therefore, EMA says, offer clients a route to upgrade their current VMS terminals to gain better overall performance for the same or lower cost of operation.
This is another important milestone reached by EMA Group, the Slovenia headquartered satellite tracking systems research and development company, and the Indonesia based PT. AMALGAM INDOCORPORA, satellite solutions provider working in areas such as fisheries, emergency, heavy industry, transportation, aviation, maritime, government, military and adventure travel.
The first batch of equipment has already been despatched, while the frame contract for deliveries to follow through 2013 and 2014 (as we go to press) is due to be signed soon.
The BlueTraker® VMS is the latest generation of marine grade satellite terminals especially designed to monitor fishing vessels in the European Union and elsewhere.
The latest VMS system developments set out a route to fast response fishing vessel monitoring when located inside specific geographical zones. The BlueTraker® VMS manages up to 100 geographical areas with associated rules embedded inside the onboard terminal itself. These geo fences, denominating protected aquatic areas can be remotely uploaded, edited, activated/deactivated etc., anytime the authority finds it appropriate.
BlueTraker® VMS terminals also support Electronic Logbook reporting, as well as fishing gear usage by monitoring hydraulic pressure switches that activate respective fishing gear. This option can be implemented by using specific compact modules (named CANDIO) and combining them with BlueTraker® VMS CAN bus networking feature. A virtually unlimited number of gear as well as other sensors (i.e. door switches) can be monitored. This gives the fishing authority a great insight into vessel’s fishing effort and activity.
