What is BS EN 61162-1 - Maritime navigation and radiocommunication about?
BS EN 61162 is a series of European standards on maritime navigation and radiocommunication equipment and systems that discusses the requirements for data transmission from a single talker to one or more listeners. BS EN 61162-1 is the first part of a series of documents on maritime navigation and radiocommunication equipment and systems. BS EN 61162-1 contains the requirements for data communication between maritime electronic instruments, navigation, and radiocommunication equipment when interconnected via an appropriate system.
BS EN 61162-1 is intended to support one-way serial data transmission from a single talker to one or more listeners. These data are in printable ASCII form and may include information such as position, speed, depth, frequency allocation, etc. Typical messages may be from about 11 to a maximum of 79 characters in length and generally require the transmission no more rapidly than one message per second.
The electrical definitions in BS EN 61162-1 are not intended to accommodate high-bandwidth
applications such as radar or video imagery, or intensive database or file transfer applications. Since there is no provision for guaranteed delivery of messages and only limited error checking capability, BS EN 61162-1 should be used with caution in all safety applications.
For applications where a faster transmission rate is necessary, reference should be made to IEC 61162-2. For applications to shore-based equipment of the automatic identification system (AIS) reference should be made to the IEC 62320 series.
Who is BS EN 61162-1 - Maritime navigation and radiocommunication for?
BS EN 61162-1 on maritime navigation and radiocommunication is relevant to:
- Shipping industries
- Maritime engineer
Why should you use BS EN 61162-1- Maritime navigation and radiocommunication?
Maritime radiocommunication enhances safety at sea to transmit private and official messages, between shore-based radio stations (coast stations/ coast earth stations) and ship-based radio stations (ship stations/ ship earth stations), as well as between ship-based radio stations.
BS EN 61162-1 provides guidance on hardware specification, data transmission, data format protocol, data content, applications.
As a user of BS EN 61162-1, you can efficiently provide position, identification, and other information about the ship to other ships and coastal authorities automatically. BS EN 61162-1 supplies tried and tested methods that will help you achieve operational and performance requirements. With obedience and compliance to BS EN 61162-1, you can have one-way serial data transmission from a single talker to one or more listeners.
