Sitronics: SiAIS (S-AIS) Cloud Service Satellite Automatic Identification System

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2024

Announcement of a new version of the service with the function of animated reproduction of surface conditions anywhere in the world ocean

On November 29, 2024, it became known that the Russian company Sitronics Group presented an updated version of the SiAIS satellite monitoring service with the function of animated reproduction of the surface situation anywhere in the world ocean. The system uses data from a domestic satellite constellation.

According to the Sitronics press service, the service provides information about the types of ships, their flags, home ports, specifications, speed and routes, as well as the situation in the ports. The event development model takes into account the behavior of ships and records the actual time of ship starts.

Pavel Dreiger, vice president of software products and solutions at Sitronics Group, announced the development of the smart filters function, which will allow you to set difficult conditions for finding ships and analyze world cargo flows based on accumulated data.

The new version of the service has added coordinate descriptions of anchorages, which allows you to quickly track regular stops of ships. The system automatically records the entry and exit from the anchorage areas, displaying this information on the detailed page of the vessel.

The updated interface includes a scheduled transition scale taking into account the arrival time specified by the boatmaster. The route to the destination port is recalculated regularly taking into account deviations and average speed.

The combined search allows you to find not only ships, but also ports, and the list of system geographical areas is supplemented with exclusive economic zones. The animated playback function allows you to view historical data on the movement of ships anywhere in the world.

The SiAIS service is a Russian alternative to Western shipping monitoring systems and continues to be improved based on user feedback.

Sitro-AIS Satellite Launch

In November 2024, Satellites launched four Sitro-AIS satellites into orbit, developed on the basis of CubeSat technology in 3U format. These satellites are equipped with special equipment for receiving and transmitting signals of the automatic identification system from sea vessels. The information received is sent to ground stations and allows for prompt control of shipping routes, which is especially important for strategically important areas such as the Northern Sea Route.

Launched devices support the exchange of data on the location, speed and course of ships, providing navigation information that is critical for safe navigation. Thanks to the data from these satellites, it becomes possible to effectively control traffic, as well as control safety not only for large ships, but also for private yachts and small boats, which significantly reduces the risks of accidents and unforeseen situations.

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Фото: SPUTNIX

The Sitro-AIS system has supplemented the already existing Russian orbital constellation, which includes 28 satellites that provide support for navigation systems for sea vessels and other modes of transport.

The Automatic Identification System (AIS) is primarily designed to transmit ship identification data, their size and course. The AIS collects and transmits data on the geographical coordinates and status of ships using a global navigation satellite system, as well as data manually entered by the ship's crew.

The Sitro-AIS Space Automatic Vessel Identification System allows the tracking and identification of marine vessels by determining their size and course. A new stage in the development of the domestic space industry was implemented by the private Russian company SPUTPS, a subsidiary of Sitronics Space Corporation, which manufactures civilian spacecraft and Earth remote sensing services.^[1][2]

Ability to track the history of events for a particular vessel or port

Sitronics Group has released a major update to the SiAIS marine satellite monitoring service. The company announced this on October 25, 2024.

Now users can track the history of events for a specific ship or port, the system has the opportunity to form thermal shipping maps, the catalog of navigation equipment has expanded to 28 thousand unique objects.

One of the main updates - the ability to track events on any ship, port or geographical area from the system - is already more than 570 thousand ships. You can create a subscription in the Notifications section, and then track the ship or the situation in the port in a separate event log.

Also, the developers have completely updated the process of forming analytics - thermal shipping maps can now be formed for a day, month or year. The map shows the routes with the heaviest traffic.

In addition, the catalog of navigation equipment continues to be replenished. The latest version of the system also includes support for virtual tools. In addition, simplified sea maps and the search for ships nearby were added to improve awareness of the water area. An event model was also developed that records ship crashes, entry into a geographic area or anchoring for half a million ships around the world.

Today, the SiAIS service is a domestic solution that replaces Western counterparts. The data in the service is formed on the basis of the information that we receive from our AIS satellites. In November 2024, it is planned to expand the grouping to 52 devices, that is, almost twice. This will saturate the service with information and increase the relevance of data, which is important for ensuring the safety of shipping, "said Sitronics Group President Sergei Tkachenko.

The SiAIS cloud service contains information about the types of ships, their flags and home ports, specifications, speed and routes, as well as the situation in the ports themselves. It displays layers with visualized weather data, which gives the user the opportunity to see the current conditions at the ship's location. In addition, photos have been added to the technical information on the pages of many ships, and in the map setup and the form - the path to the destination that the ship will make, and the actual time to leave the port of departure, based on AIS data.

Adding Path Prediction and Arrival Time

Sitronics Group has expanded the functionality of a cloud service to track maritime traffic. The company announced this on May 17, 2024.

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Фото: Sitronics

The service has a function for predicting the path and time of arrival, calculating distances to destinations and various objects. Also, the system automates regular updates of information about ships and you can see the time of their actual calls to ports.

Sitronics Group developers have released a number of functional updates to the SiAIS software service to track maritime traffic. Technological improvements have affected modules such as Weather, Special Zones, Ship Catalog, Electronic Vizier and others. In particular, users can see layers with visualized weather data in the system, and the wind is animated in the format familiar to users. On the detailed page of the vessel, you can see the current weather at the location of the vessel, and on the pages of the vessels themselves, photos have now been added to the technical information about many of them.

In the catalog of ships, you can now see ships with an ice class. And in the map setup and form - the path to the destination that the ship will make, as well as the actual time of its entry into the port (estimated ETA). On the port page, the developers implemented a tab with ship starts, where inputs and outputs from the port zone are recorded.

We continue to work on expanding the functionality of our service. Releases with updates are released every two weeks, which we consider a good pace. Our advantage, of course, is the presence of our own grouping of AIS devices in orbit. This allows you to receive up-to-date information about marine traffic not only in a specific sea, but from the surface of the entire world ocean, "said Pavel Dreiger, vice president of software products and solutions at Sitronics Group.

The SiAIS cloud service contains information about the types of ships, their flags and home ports, specifications, speed and routes, as well as the situation in the ports themselves. SiAIS also allows shipowners to track the situation with their own fleet via API. Current data is received in the system thanks to the Sitronics Group's own satellite constellation. In May 2024, there are already 24 own devices with AIS receivers in orbit, plans to expand to 80 devices by the end of 2024. Since launch, the system for tracking sea traffic has accumulated information on more than 440,000 ships and 6,000 ports.

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