CVTS

            ADVETO CVTS

From the beginning of 2005 all vessels over 300 gross
tons must be equipped with the Swedish invented AIS
transponder system based on the work of the Swedish
inventor Håkan Lans. Therefore, the movements of not
only all ships over 300 gross tons but also the steadily
increasing number of smaller ships equipped with AIS
can be monitored with ADVETO CVTS. And this applies
world-wide! The only things required are a set of relevant
ENCs, AIS data via Internet, TCP/IP or directly via
an antenna, and an ADVETO CVTS system.

For Port, Harbour and Coastal Authorities, Ship
Owners, Offshore installations and others
The system helps marine professionals and the marine
industry in general to gain benefit from AIS and use the
useful detailed vessel information transmitted and
received. Obvious users are Port, Harbour and Coastal
Authorities, Ship Owners and Marine Managers, Shipping
Companies, Marine Professionals, operators of offshore
installations with vessel monitoring requirements
and all others with a need and interest to monitor vessel
movements all across the world.

A supplement to national VTS systems
The 100% Microsoft Office compatible ADVETO CVTS
system should be considered as a lower cost supplement
to the national VTS systems in use. It is a version
of the well proven and widely renowned ADVETO AECDIS
system aimed for land based users and therefore
excluding the professional navigation functions of the
complete AECDIS-2000 system already in wide use
across the world.

Valuable vessel information on the screen
ADVETO CVTS provides a live graphical display of the
vessels on the computer screen on a ENC background
of a detail level as chosen by the user. Both AIS and
ARPA targets can be presented in the chart
automatically. A short presentation of the target is easily
achieved simply by placing the cursor on the target. And
a "single touch" on the symbol activates a true course
and speed vector or predictor. It is also possible to sort
the AIS information on ships name, call sign, IMO number,
distance or speed.

Multiple views
ADVETO CVTS offers up to four different views and the
user can quickly and conveniently switch between the
different views just by the press of a button.
The views might show e.g.an overview of the national
coastline plus details of three major national ports, an
archipelago or inlands waterways. The different views
can also be shown simultanously on separate screens.
Each view can be shown either with the chart freezed or
with the chart picture following a ship’s motion.

Use official ENCs in CVTS
The growing number of vessels now using official ENCs confirms
the importance of using correct data for safe navigation particularly
in critical and complex waters.
With ADVETO CVTS, land based users now can use the same
official ENCs that are used in professional vessels.
Official ENCs in S57/S63 and Direct-ENC formats from PRIMAR,
IC-ENC and other suppliers can be used in the ADVETO CVTS
and so can all non-official ENCs like Chartworld, BSB raster and
CMAP charts.

Additional screen information from separate databases
As a supplement to existing chart information, pictures and
texts can be freely placed in the chart and saved in a database.
By linking e.g. a digital photo to a database point, the picture
can be presented in the chart when the database point is
clicked (view IV above). Several databases can be
run simultaneously.

Passenger counting
ADVETO CVTS offers a feature with reporting of passenger
countings from ships equipped with ADVETO AECTIS-2000.
Provided that staff onboard inputs number of passengers this
data is immediately available in the control center’s CVTS system.
This feature is used onboard all ships of the Stockholm based
Waxholmsbolaget company operating the seagoing public
transport in the complex waters of the Stockholm archipelago
and harbor all year round with some 20 archipelago boats.

Recording
All incoming data to ADVETO CVTS (time, postition,
course, speed, depth, ARPA and AIS targets, etc.) can
be recorded and later used to replay and analyse historical
ship movements. A fast presentation of a 24-hour
recording is available and data for 60-300 days or more
can easily be recorded and saved depending on computer
capacity. Trails from individual targets can be easily
separated from each other simply by applying different
colours.

Easier transmission of text messages
The AIS Text Messages function is still easier to use
with an ADVETO CVTS system: Just place the marker on
the ship symbol, type the message, send it and the
receiving ship can read it on the screen!

AIS filter to select type of ships
The rapidly increasing number of AIS-equipped ships
results in an equally increasing number of ship symbols
shown on the screen.

To facilitate the handling of all this information,
ADVETO CVTS is equipped with an AIS "filter"
making it possible for the user to select the type(s)
of ships to be viewed (passenger, cargo, tank etc.)
or to view ships with e.g. dangerous cargo.

Views
without
AIS-filter

Views
with
AIS-filter
 

World wide usage of Adveto system
Adveto systems are already used all across the world in and around all continents by
work boats, tow boats, ferries and ocean-crossing cruise-liners, pilot boats, skerry boats
and traning ships. The majority of our users are still found in Scandinavia but with a rapidly
growing number of users around the world.

World pioneers with commercial AIS solutions
Adveto started in 1987 and understood the benefits of AIS at an early stage.
Already in 1993 we were the first company to produce AIS software for commercial use.
One of our first customers was the Swedish Maritime Administration.
Since then we have frequently added a number of new functions that can be connected
to Adveto’s systems for precision navigation with official ENCs – functions integrated into
ADVETO CVTS.