AMEC's WideLink B600 offers the next evolution of AIS technology: SO-TDMA.
SO-TDMA technology provides an enhanced level of performance through hardware and software upgrades including 5W transmit power, a faster reporting rate and professional grade time division management. Its tough housing with IPx7 waterproof and shock and temperature robustness is ideal to survive in harsh marine environments. These features make the B600 a far superior product when compared to a standard class B AIS transponder which is based on the previous generation CSTDMA scheme.
The high performance AIS class B transponder is equipped with 72-channel high speed GNSS receiver. It supports GPS and GLONASS by default and optional BeiDou and Galileo and can be used as a GPS source for your NMEA2000 network or NMEA0183 chart plotter.
AIS compatible chartplotters and PC's can be easily integrated over a choice of NMEA2000, NMEA0183 or waterproof USB ports. You can convert NMEA2000 instrument data into NMEA0183 sentences, such as heading, speed, depth, temperature, wind, pressure and so on. With multiplexing functionality; sensor data along with AIS and GPS information can all be displayed on compatible chartplotters and PC programs. The integrated micro SD card slot enables AIS data logging and firmware upgrade in the most intuitive way.
