Ohmex brings variety to Ocean Business
The Hampshire UK based manufacturer and distributor of hydrographic survey and other marine electronic equipment, Ohmex, will not have far to travel to exhibit at Ocean Business.
Ohmex will be showing its latest range of products including the new ‘infrastructure ready’ versions of it’s port instruments. These are all WiFi enabled devices, which allows them to be easily linked into existing networks and ready for forthcoming developments in WiMax and Mesh adaptive networking.
Both the TideM8 and WeatherM8 WiFi products will be on display at Ocean Business. These ‘infrastructure’ versions of the popular Tide Gauge and solid state Weather Station units can be easily configured with EDAS software to provide a complete low cost system for the typical small port. The TideM8 can be supplied either with a conventional pressure transducer or the VEGA K band radar module for low power ‘contactless’ measurement.
The ‘infrastructure’ version of the AIS AtoN will also be on display. This unit addresses the perceived problem of rogue AtoNs transmitting false data and unable to be controlled. This AIS transmitter is WiFi connected to the users network by the Ohmex EDAS software, with transmission under the direct control of the Port VTS.
Featured on the booth will be the ‘TideMet’ integrated AIS weather and tide station, designed as an autonomous stand alone AIS system with integrated batteries and solar panels. The updated system is the only commercial AtoN transmitting messages that comply with the recently introduced IMO SN.1/Circ.289 specification. Inclusion of the VEGA radar module enables the unit to be free standing or mounted on a pile and provides significant wave height measurements in its output message.
Seafloor Systems will be sharing the booth with Ohmex and will be displaying their HydroLite range of portable hydrographic surveying products. Versions on display will be the MB system of a Trimble Tablet PC running Hypack software coupled to a Trimble SPS882 RTK and Odom swathe echo sounder. Also on display will be the highly portable TM version HydroLite interfaced to the new Trimble TSC3 controller, Trimble DGPS and an Ohmex MILspec echo sounder.
