AISnet Base Station makes AIS data available on the web

8:14 PM Mon 18 Oct 2010 GMT

'AISnet - the shore base station' .

Digital Yacht, British manufacturer of marine navigation and communication equipment, has developed a new shore-side AIS network receiver named AISnet, which, for instance, your marina could install. It's like a normal boat installed AIS receiver, but has been specifically designed for use on shore side installations where, when connected via its ethernet connection to the internet, will make AIS targets that it has received available to the wider internet connected world. There's now a proliferation of AIS viewing sites such as marinetraffic.com which will accept a feed from devices like AISnet and make the local AIS data available to view ...

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by Sail-World Cruising