SRT CS100 - Typical Coast Station System Installation

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3.2 Typical Coast Station system installation

A typical application for the Coast Station is relaying AIS messages received at the coast to viewing and

database applications via the Internet. The Coast Station is connected to a VHF antenna for AIS reception

and provided with an Ethernet connection to an Internet access point.

The Coast Station is configured to stream the received AIS data to a pre-configured network destination

specified with an IP address and port number. The Coast Station can support both TCP and UDP operation,

and can operate either as a server or a client. Typically the Coast Station is configured as a TCP client

configured to push data to the public IP address of a central database server.

Alternatively the Coast Station can be connected directly to a PC via USB. Note that the tag block feature

described in section

6 is not supported over the USB connection. Figure 2, Figure 3 and Figure 4 show possible

connection schemes.

Figure 2 Coast Station installation for connection to a remote viewer/database via Ethernet

Figure 3 Coast Station installation for connection to a local viewer/database via Ethernet

Viewer / database

applications

WWW

Mains

power

VHF antenna

GPS antenna

AIS Coast

Station

Network

router

Ethernet cable