AIS Environmental Health Protection Solution

AIS Environmental Health Protection Solution is based on SiiTech Web VTS product and represents an efficient tool to protect the environment.

“The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are responsible for more than 100 tons per day of smog- and particulate-forming nitrogen oxides (NOX) – more than the daily emissions from all 6 million cars in the region,” according to William A. Burke, chairman of the South Coast Air Quality Management District.

The largest amount of emissions (53%) is generated by ships approaching the port. A vessel speed reduction program requesting vessels to slow from 20-25 knots to 12 knots at a distance 20 nautical miles from port could reduce emissions from vessels up to 80%.

The Internet-based online AIS vessel traffic monitoring system assists competent authorities to:

• Detect and identify AIS equipped vessels at the earliest stage of arriving
• Track AIS targets
• Create a speed limited zone
• Generate an automatic alarm when a vessel violates a speed limit in the zone
• Send a speed violation automatic email notification
• Automatically send an AIS warning message to a vessel
• Generate speed violation reports
• Investigate violations (the unlimited history replay function)

The solution supports S57 and BSB nautical charts, Open Street, Virtual Earth and Google maps.

AIS Environmental Health Protection Solution in action:

20 nautical miles zone at Long Beach.

Violation report generated by the solution.