Automatic Identification System (AIS) - Sutranet

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Software that connects 

“Software that connects” 

SUTRANET SEMINAR 

CLAUS HEIN 

Version: 1.0 

27 March, 2007 

Coastal Surveillance 

Who are GateHouse 

What is AIS? 

Projects 

Current Development 

Standalone Products 

• GAD, WebGAD, WebSTAT, etc. 

Systems 

• Port, National, International 

Potential/New Products 

Fleet Tracking; Alaska, USCG, IMO 

(LRIT), Long Range Tracking and 

Surveillance 

SOA 

Risk 

Radar & Fusion 

AIR GAD 

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GateHouse A/S Confidential 1


Aalborg – Communications Cluster 

• GateHouse’s location 

• Aalborg, Northern Denmark 

• Communications cluster 

• International university 

• Large number of hi-tech companies 

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Company Overview 

• Facts about GateHouse 

• System engineering and technical software development 

• Incorporated in 1992 

• 85+ employees 

• Highly skilled and motivated employees - 75% at master level 

• Danish ownership: 

• Founder 63% 

• Employees 27% 

• External investor 10% 

• Involved in the defence market 

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Company Overview 

• Facts about GateHouse (cont.): 

• Ernst & Young Regional Entrepreneur of 

the Year 2004 and 2005 and Regional 

Initiative Award from Federation of 

Danish Industries 2005. 

• Memberships: 

• IALA 

• JSF DK Team 

• NorCom 

• Defence & Aerospace Industries Association 

in Denmark (FAD) 

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Quality 

•Quality management system (QMS) 

•Purpose: To create the best possible environment for creating top 

quality products. 

•Organization: QA Manager supported by various Software Quality 

Assurance Staff – both within projects and independent of projects. 

•CMMI software process improvement project 

•Purpose: To improve processes continually and bring GateHouse to 

CMMI Level 3 and onwards. Level 3 assessment planned end 2006. 

•ISO 9001:2000 certified 

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Horizontal strategy 

Strategic Concept 

Software Systems Integration 

Equipment 

Software 

SW SW SW 

SW 

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Satellite Communications 

GateHouse is the only independent provider of 

complex software for Inmarsat BGAN satellite 

terminals. 

Today most of the terminal manufacturers are 

using GateHouse BGAN software for landportable, 

aeronautical, maritime and vehicular 

products. GateHouse is offering: 

• BGAN Protocol Stack for Inmarsat satellite 

terminals. 

• BGAN Application Framework to add on 

top of the protocol stack. 

• BGAN Network Emulator for thorough endto-end 

testing using real terminals. 

• UMTS Non-Access Stratum – A sub-product 

of the BPS for usage anywhere. 

• Protocol and Session Decoders for analysis 

of a range of satellite systems (COMINT). 

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Coastal Surveillance 

GateHouse provides best-in-class AIS systems for shore-based tracking to e.g. 

maritime authorities and port administrations. New features and functionality 

are being added continuously – increasing the usage and value for money. 

A large range of AIS modules - including Display 

Systems, Databases, Statistics, Watchdog, System 

Integration and much, much more – is offered for: 

• National and international AIS solutions 

• Port AIS solutions 

• Offshore solutions 

• Airborne solutions 

GateHouse is furthermore extremely experienced in 

the field of Maritime Voice, DSC, GMDSS etc. with 

software installed in more than 20 radio systems 

around the world. 

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Defence 

GateHouse offers up-to-date competences within a range of 

technical disciplines related to NBO from enterprise 

architecture to convergence protocols. 

GateHouse is advisor for both the Danish Defence and NATO 

on respectively communications and intelligence equipment. 

GateHouse is very active in the Danish Industrial 

Corporation military market. 

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Special Projects 

GateHouse offers it’s technical and management capabilities for 

consultancy work ranging from direct manpower over project management 

to complete project responsibility. 

GateHouse offers a test tool - Interface Test System (ITS) for a rapid and 

seamless integration of software elements. 

GateHouse offers CMMI 

Knowledge Transfer for 

companies that wants to 

build up competences for 

both Quality Assurance and 

Process Improvement. 

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References 

Some examples of GateHouse’s disclosable customers and projects 

Shore Based Automatic Identification 

System (AIS) for the Danish Maritime 

Administration and Helsinki Commission 

AIS solutions for the port authorities and 

administration in ports of Århus and 

Aalborg 

Test systems for automated regression 

testing 

General simulation network for wireless 

communications systems for UMTS/GSM 

Reference BGAN and protocol stacks for 

in-house protocol testing and validation as 

well as numerous R&D projects 

BGAN protocol stack for Inmarsat BGAN 

User Terminal 

BGAN protocol stack for Inmarsat BGAN 

User Terminal 

BGAN protocol stack and associated 

software for Inmarsat BGAN User Terminal 

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What is AIS? 

in short 

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AIS 

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AIS 

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Gatehouse 

Projects 

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GateHouse AIS Projects 

Danish National System 

• The Royal Danish Administration of 

Navigation and Hydrography 

• 18 Physical Shore Stations 

• Fully Redundant Control Centre 

• Secure real-time interface to Navy 

and VTS 

• Real-time data distribution to approx 

300 users including port, pilots etc. 

• Web-based Internet clients 

• Cuurently 2 Terabyte Oracle database 

with record and replay and event 

storage 

• Statistics and report generator 

• Physical and virtual AtoN 

• Advanced Message Transmission, 

including virtual MMSI number 

handling 

• Pilot tracking (future) 

• WatchDog 

Skagen 

Hirtshals 

Læsø 

Hanstholm 

Frejlev 

Anholt 

Bovbjerg 

Fornæs 

Vejby 

Margretheholm 

Vejle 

Røsnæs 

Blåvand 

AIS CC 

Felsted Svendborg 

Mern 

Karleby 

Bornholm 

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Helcom International AIS System 

Data exchange between 10 

countries 

• Sweden, Russia, Poland, 

Lithuania, Latvia, Germany, 

Finland, Estonia, Norway, 

Denmark 

• Server hosted by Royal 

Danish Administration of 

Navigation and Hydrography 

Currently 2500-3000 targets 

User control: 

• Advanced receive filtering 

• Down sampling 

• Online AIS data stream 

2 Terabyte Oracle database 

Web based Statistics 

Similar project, S@S, for the 

North Sea 

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WEB GAD 

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Passageline statistic 

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Polish National System 

Complete control system, replacing 

existing software 

Wasser- und Schifffahrtsamt 

Wilhelmshaven 

GAD display systems for HELCOM 

integration system 

SOK (Danish Navy/Coast Guard) 

GAD Display systems for Pilotage 

WatchDog for automatic event detection 

Database and GAD for investigation of 

pollution, e.g. oil spills 

USCG R&D Centre 

Satellite based AIS 

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Port Systems 

• Malaysia 

• USA 

• Germany 

• UK 

• Australia 

• Spain 

• Portugal 

• France 


Danish Maritime Authority 

• Database and GAD for 

investigation of accidents etc. 

AMSA, Australia 

• Web-STAT for port traffic 

analysis 

Greenland 

• AIS trial 

Swedish National System 

• Statistics, Web and SOA 

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Skagen 

Hirtshals 

Læsø 

Hanstholm 

Frejlev 

Anholt 

Bovbjerg 

Fornæs 

Vejby 

Margretheholm 

Vejle 

Røsnæs 

Blåvand 

AIS CC 

Felsted Svendborg 

Mern 

Karleby 

Bornholm 

The BASSY project and Risk 

analysis (Medio 07) 

• Model based (IWRAP) and 

simulation based risk analysis. 

Integrated with WebSTAT. Joint 

development together with the 

Technical University of Denmark 

(DTU) 

Irish Coast Guard (Primo - 

Medio 07) 

• Implementation and commissioning 

• Sectors, on-air tests, Anomaly 

detection, etc. 

Port Systems 

• System Integration 

• GIS capabilities 

• WatchDog for ports 

Terma Radar (Feb 07) 

• Radar Integration 

• Radar/AIS fusion 

Marine Exchange Alaska 

(Feb 07) 

• Core system SW 

• WebGAD, WatchDog, etc. 

AIS-DK Extensions 

• E.g. Near miss statistics 

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Standalone Products 

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GateHouse AIS Display - GAD 

Design for shorebased 

AIS systems. 

Chart display kernel 

fully supports S-57. 

Integrated 

WatchDog control 

Integrated Message 

Service control 

Control of physical 

AtoN and 

management of 

virtual AtoN 

Creation and 

management of 

replay events 

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GateHouse AIS Display - GAD 

Coverage 

information 

displayed on chart 

Replay with display 

of message flow 

Integrated 

Statistics 

Support for Pilot 

tracking 

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GAD 

GAD is prepared 

for the extended 

coverage gained 

by LRIT and 

sharing data 

between nations. 

The GateHouse 

system is able to 

handle several 

thousands ships at 

a time. The 

example shows 

5021 ships. 

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GAD 

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Base station coverage 

Based on actual received 

AIS reports 

External systems must 

included base station ID in 

AIS reports 

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WatchDog Example 

Checking Passage Lines and Regions 

Configuration 

Passage line notification when a 

vessel enter/ leave the harbour area 

ATA for the vessel MAX Mols 

entering Berth D - 

acknowledge required 

(indicated by small man-icon) 

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WEB GAD Module 

Based on server side technology 

(browser independent) 

Completely scalable solution 

Uses S-57 charts 

User-dependent detail 

configuration 

User name and password 

protected access 

User-dependent information 

filtering, i.e. user rights 

Historical data view 

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WEB GAD Module 

Filters can use AND, OR, NOT 

operators 

Filters can be applied to all 

relevant AIS message fields e.g. 

Length, MMSI, 

Name, IMO, Speed, Heading, 

Draught, etc. 

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WEB STAT Module 

Generic tool to analyse 

Risk 

Traffic flow 

Traffic patterns 

Throughput/efficiency 

Types of Analysis 

Passage lines 

Historical tracks 

Vessel density analysis 

Event analysis 

Ship reports (AIS changes, 

history record) 

AIS Data quality analysis 

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Plot types 

Line 

Bar 

Pie 

Output 

Web – Chart 

Web – Graph 

Web – Table 

Export 

PDF 

CSV, Excel 

Filtering facilities 

Geographical 

AIS data contents 

Time and time intervals 

Store and reuse 

SOA 

Activate and manipulate jobs 

through a SOAP interface 

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Historical tracks 

Historical tracks used to analyse 

how a set of ships have 

travelled. 

Tracks are coloured according 

to selected criteria, e.g. 

direction, speed, draught etc. 


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Traffic density for Hammergat before and after the new traffic separation scheme was applied 

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Ship report 

Show all changes in 

Static AIS message 

Monitoring for specific 

changes back in time. 

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Event Plot 

Plotting events occurred 

in defined area 

Can be combined with 

other statistics, e.g. 

density plot 

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Data Quality Analysis 

Used to track the quality 

of the AIS data over 

time. 

Missing information, e.g. 

heading 

Sanity checks. 

Validation against other 

sources e.g. Lloyds. 

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WMS 

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WMS 

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Potential/New Products 

in short 

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Airborne og Offshore Løsninger 

Airborne AIS SAR og Miljøovervågning 

Bedre “Common Operational Picture” 

Bedre rapporteringsfaciliteter 

Offshore Platformsovervågning 

Overvågning af sikkerhedszone 

Automatisk alarmering 

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Satellite based tracking 

AIS receiver on satellite 

(USCG, RDANH) 

Inmarsat C (Alaska, 

USCG) 

Ship to shore 

IMO LRIT will probably 

be based on Inmarsat C 

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Inmarsat C 

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Risk Analysis based on AIS data 

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Risk Analysis based on AIS data 

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RADAR 

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