Instant AIS Equipment Test Solution

Free version of AIS Server for testing your AIS equipment and monitoring vessels in your area.

SiiTech provides AIS professionals, users, and amateurs with a free and proven solution to test your AIS devices. This solution is based on SiiTech AIS Server and SiiTech Web VTS products and allows you verify your AIS receiver/transponder/base station in 5 minutes.

In 5 minutes you could:

• Monitor AIS equipped vessels on the map/chart
• Check your AIS coverage
• Check reception and decoding AIS Class A and Class B data from each displayed vessel
• Check reception and decoding AIS Base station data from each displayed base station
• Check reception and decoding AIS Aids to Navigation (AtoN) data from each displayed AtoN device
• Check reception and decoding safety messages

Five steps to make it real:

1. Download and install SiiTech AIS Server Lite (see Downloads page)
2. Connect your working AIS device to any COM port or to your network
3. Connect AIS Server Lite to above COM port or to the network AIS device using its TCP address and port number
4. Press the "Start" button to start AIS Server Lite
5. Press the "Map..." button to see AIS equipped vessels around your position at  http://vtslite.siitech.net/VTSLite

Note: If your COM port connection is using settings other than default ones, you will have to change the default settings accordingly. If you are using a network AIS device, you will have to specify its TCP address and port number.

For more information see AIS Server Administrator’s Guide (PDF).

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