What is IEC 63173‑1 about?
IEC 63173 is a series discusses standards for data interface of maritime navigation and radio communication equipment and systems.
IEC 63173‑1 focuses on the route plan based on S-100. IEC 63173‑1 specifies S-100 compliant product specifications for a route plan intended for the exchange of information.
IEC 63173‑1 focuses on the content, structure, and metadata needed for creating fully S-100 compliant route plan information and its portrayal within an S-100-based application. The IHO manages all numbers for S-100 compliant product specifications and has assigned S-421 for this route plan IEC standard.
IEC 63173‑1 specifies only a data format for the route plan exchange.
Note: IEC 63173‑1 does not specify a data format of vessel monitoring and logging information.
Who is IEC 63173‑1 for?
IEC 63173‑1 on maritime navigation and radiocommunication systems is applicable to:
- Maritime manufacturers
- Maritime data security management organizations
- Maritime activity operators
- Pilot of a ship
- Maritime navigation and radiocommunication systems
- Design engineers for marine navigation
- Testing agencies involved in the inspection of cybersecurity of ships and marine systems
Why should you IEC 63173‑1 use?
Using route planning system provided by IEC 63173‑1 you can analyze navigation data, determine the degree of risk of ship navigation and enhance navigational safety. IEC 63173‑1 provides you with the specifications for a route plan intended to use for the exchange of information.
Guidelines for the route plan feature catalogue given in IEC 63173‑1 helps you with the feature types, information types, attributes, attribute values, associations, and roles that may be used in a route plan dataset.
Following metadata profile specification included in IEC 63173‑1 you can ensure the navigation capability, maritime safety assurance capability, and marine environmental protection capability.
IEC 63173‑1 describes route plan test consist of generic test data, generic test data includes all optional objects and attributes. This test data is used for any test which requires any modifications of the content of the test data.
