Remote monitoring system for French Institute

Kannad has won this three year contract for from the French Institute for Maritime and Inland Waterways (CETMEF) on the back of its work developing an AIS AtoN station for use on buoys and beacons around the French coast since 2009.

“The team at Kannad has enjoyed working with CETMEF on this mutually beneficial and technically advanced project”, said Pierre Jean Jannin of Kannad. He added that the contract is “a result of a lot of hard work by all involved”.

Kannad’s development in the field goes back over a decade, as the company has been designing and manufacturing electronic aids to navigation for the past 10 years.

This particular French contract was for the new KanAtoN 3 AIS AtoN station plus interface, which has a number of features. These include being able to control remotely a number of functions on the aid to navigation, the activation of emergency equipment, control and activation of spare equipment, remote monitoring of the onboard system and malfunction detection.