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IEC updates standard for maritime navigation display requirements
Date: 2022-03-01    Source:IEC   

The celestial navigation is one of the earliest methods used by sailors to help guide their ships. In open waters, when no longer able to track their progress using landmarks, sailors could determine their ship's location by tracking the position of the sun or the movement of the stars.

Nowadays, sailors benefit from advanced technologies that provide detailed information on the ship's exact location and surroundings. A modern bridge will include a wide range of marine navigation equipment such as radars, GPS, electronic charts and identification systems to name but a few. The display presentation of the information used for the ship's navigation requires a degree of harmonization to ensure that a trained sailor from any part of the world can easily access and understand the available information.

The IEC has published a new edition of its standard IEC 62288 which provides the general requirements, testing methods and required test results for the presentation of information on a ship's navigation display. This standard supports the resolution MSC.191 (79) agreed by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) that harmonizes the requirements for the presentation of navigation-related information on the bridge of a ship.

IEC 62288 also addresses the guidelines for the presentation of navigation-related symbols, terms and abbreviations as specified by the IMO's Maritime Safety Committee (SN/Circ.243) in 2019 as well as the presentation of AIS data reports and the AIS Application Specific Messages as defined by the IMO (SN.1/Circ.289). It has been developed by?IEC Technical Committee 80: Maritime navigation and radiocommunication equipment and systems.

"This new edition is the result of considerable discussion in both IMO and IEC to produce the next generation of display presentation. The new edition provides symbology for ship bridge systems which will link sensors in a digital Ethernet network integrating common responsibilities such as route planning, navigation status monitoring, log-keeping, alert awareness and day-to-day chart management," notes Kim Fisher, the Secretary to IEC TC 80.

This is the third edition of IEC 62288 which was first published in 2008. A commented version (CMV) of the official standard is available to allow for the easy identification of changes made compared to the previous edition. It also includes comments from the experts who developed the standard to explain the reasoning for the changes.

(Source: IEC)

 
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