Key challenges
Coast guards globally play a vital role in the maritime safety and security. Their responsibilities brings many both foreseen as well as unforeseen challenges with some of they key challenges being the following:
- Maritime Safety: Ensuring the safety of life at sea through search and rescue (SAR) operations. This involves responding to distress calls, rescuing individuals in peril, and providing assistance to vessels in trouble.
- Maritime Security: Protecting maritime borders and territorial waters from illegal activities such as smuggling, human trafficking, piracy, and terrorism. This includes conducting patrols, inspections, and enforcing maritime laws.
- Environmental Protection: Preventing and responding to marine pollution incidents, such as oil spills or hazardous material discharges. This includes monitoring environmental conditions, enforcing anti-pollution laws, and coordinating clean-up efforts.
- Navigational Safety: Maintaining and managing navigational aids such as buoys, lighthouses, and electronic navigation systems to ensure safe and efficient maritime navigation.
Having maritime situational awareness, being able to respond swiftly to evolving incidents or even anticipating and preventing them from even happening, is at the core of coast guard responsibilities. With a Gatehouse Maritime solution you will be able to do just that.
Complete Solution for Coast Guards: Designed to Meet Your Exact Needs
Maritime Domain Monitor
Maritime Domain Monitor (MDM) is a web-based maritime domain awareness platform that integrates real-time and historical data from AIS, radar, and other sources, providing powerful visualization, intelligent filtering, and customized insights for optimized maritime operations and security.
Event Alerting
Event Alerting provides real-time notifications and intelligent geofencing for detecting unauthorized vessel activities, suspicious behavior, and potential maritime threats, enabling proactive security responses and enhanced situational awareness.
Replay and Reporting
Replay and Reporting transforms historical AIS data into actionable insights with real-time incident replays, detailed maritime traffic analysis, density plots, and customized reports, enabling efficient incident investigation, enhanced operational planning, and informed decision-making.
Aids to Navigations
AtoN Management offers comprehensive monitoring and control of physical and virtual Aids to Navigation, enabling real-time alerts, automated failure detection, and rapid deployment of emergency markers to enhance maritime safety and situational awareness.
AIS Network Monitoring
AIS Network Monitoring provides real-time visibility into AIS network connectivity, coverage, data integrity, and VHF transmissions, delivering automated alerts and analytics to ensure optimal performance, reliability, and security of maritime operations.
Advanced Analytics
Advanced Analytics leverages historical AIS data and machine learning to provide precise predictions on vessel ETAs, next port calls, and vessel routes enhancing maritime operational planning, resource allocation, and efficiency worldwide.
Support and Training
We provide comprehensive support, including seamless deployment, workflow integration, customized operator training, flexible support options, like email troubleshooting to 24/7 assistance, and regular system updates to ensure optimal maritime surveillance performance.
How our solution can solve your challenges
Enhance operations with real-time monitoring and automated alerting system, addressing the primary challenges faced by you as a coast guard. Utilizing geofencing combined with advanced pattern detection technology, we provide continuous and automated surveillance of vessels within defined areas. This always-on and proactive approach ensures early detection of potential threats, enabling swift and efficient responses to protect both offshore assets and vessels navigating nearby. Dots on a map is not enough, you need a solution that works for you, automating responses to non-severe events and identifying the incidents where a manual response may be required.
- Real-time Tracking: Stay updated on vessel movements and activities within specified geographic zones, enhancing patrol efficiency and response times.
- Advanced Pattern Detection: Automated identification of a range of patterns such as abrupt AIS position changes, rendezvous, fishing patterns and many more.
- Customizable Alerts: Set specific criteria for alerts tailored to maritime security needs, ensuring timely notifications of anomalies.
- Physical and Virtual Aids to Navigation (AtoN): Monitor your physical AtoN transponders and create virtual AtoNs as needed, ensuring safe and efficient navigation.
- Reports and Replay of Historical Data: Analyze past events for understanding patterns and identifying trends. Investigate incidents in detail with replay features.
- AIS Network Integrity: Ensure the integrity of your AIS network with automated monitoring of data, transmission, coverage and VHF data link.
Integrate the power of maritime domain awareness, automated alerts, AtoN and AIS monitoring to address your main challenges as a coast guard. Secure your maritime zones with confidence, all through one unified and automated solution.
Our customers say
“The technical sophistication of Gatehouse Maritime’s AIS-based software solutions has equipped the Irish Coast Guard with the necessary tools to tackle maritime safety and efficiency challenges head-on. They have been a true ally in our mission to safeguard Ireland’s coastline,”
Gerry Mullen, The Irish Coast Guard
Trust your data with comprehensive AIS Network Monitoring
Coast Guards rely on AIS signals for efficient maritime domain awareness. Gatehouse Maritime’s AIS Network Monitoring service focuses on managing the AIS network itself, ensuring reliable and continuous data transmission. This includes monitoring the performance and health of AIS receivers and transmitters, detecting signal anomalies, and maintaining system integrity. By providing detailed insights into the network’s functionality, this service helps Coast Guards optimize their AIS infrastructure, prevent data loss, and respond swiftly to network issues. Enhanced AIS network management supports better decision-making and operational readiness in maritime security operations.
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