The BlueTraker® VMS, the world recognized fisheries monitoring satellite terminals have received a Type approval from the Indonesian authority: Directorate General of Resources and Equipment, permitting sales and installations throughout the territory of 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 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 specialist 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 dispatched, while the frame contract for deliveries to follow through the 2013 and 2014 is about to be signed.
The BlueTraker® VMS is the latest generation of marine grade satellite terminals especially designed to monitor fishing vessels in European Union and elsewhere. BlueTraker® VMS offers a fully integrated design by housing all of electronics, antennas, GPS receiver, GPRS and Iridium communication channels as well as the back-up rechargeable battery inside a single device housing.
Next to the regular data transmissions using an Iridium satellite communication service an additional GPRS channel can also be used for in-shore reporting. The mobile network possibility (GPRS) can save on data transmission costs or to act as a secondary communication channel, independent of Iridium one. The latest VMS system developments set out a route to fast response fishing vessel monitoring when located inside specific geographical zones.
The BlueTraker® VMS proves its importance by managing up to 100 (one hundred) geographical areas with associated rules embedded inside the on-board terminal itself. These geo fences, denominating protected aquatic areas can be remotely uploaded, edited, activated/deactivated etc., anytime the authority finds it appropriate.
The BlueTraker® VMS terminals at sea will report geo fence entering/exiting using Iridium Satellite Communication Services or GPRS communication channel, depending on the rules set for each and every geo fence. One further highly demanded security & safety feature of the BlueTraker® VMS is the fail-safe Alert Button enabling crew members to send distress alerts directly to Fisheries Monitoring Centre (FMC) even in the case of a total power supply failure. As required by the latest fisheries monitoring trends, BlueTraker® VMS terminals also support Electronic Logbook (catch 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. 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.