Today SafeTrx announced support for ESRI nautical charts in our Dutch SafeTrx app “KNRM Helps”. The SafeTrx development team together with the KNRM and ESRI have developed an integration that delivers high quality ENC charts to the SafeTrx application. Key to enabling this new capability is the requirement that the SafeTrx licensee already has a business relationship with ESRI and has the rights to the necessary S57 data. Once these two elements are in place, the SafeTrx team can easily implement the charts! Using the Dutch Hydrographic Office data set, ESRI are providing the KNRM with ENC basemaps, which will be rendered in the SafeTrx “KNRM Helps” maps from their ArcGIS Online service – https://www.esri.com/en-us/arcgis/products/arcgis-online/overview . ESRI upload new ENC files and create a new …
Click here to read moreTried & tested in fair weather – and foul
These last weeks have seen giant leaps in the refining of the new Safetrx application on the mSafety platform from Sony prior to launch early next year. The device’s job is to help protect the life of its wearer, and to do that it must work in all weathers and in all sea conditions. At our recent trials in Norway and The Netherlands the unique tracking and alerting capabilities were tested in fair weather and foul. For our first trial we teamed up with our partners in Redningsselskapet, the Norwegian Society for Sea Rescue at their base in Lysaker near Oslo. A range of water sports enthusiasts volunteered to put the device through its paces, including sea kayakers, electrified jet board surfers and Oda Johanne Brødholt one of the world’s top windsurfers. In addition …
Click here to read more2019 Safetrx user group meeting
Yesterday the annual SafeTrx User Group (SUG) meeting was hosted by the Deutsche Gesellschaft zur Rettung Schiffbrüchiger (DGzRS) in their headquarters in Bremen, Germany. In attendance were: Koninklijke Nederlandse Redding Maatschappij – The Royal Netherlands SeaRescue Institution (KNRM) Deutsche Gesellschaft zur Rettung Schiffbrüchiger (DGzRS) Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) Royal Yachting Association (RYA) Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) Redningsselskapet – Norwegian Sea Rescue Society (RS) Royal Danish Navy – Søværnet Danish Maritime Authority (DMA) Suomen Meripelastusseura – Finnish Lifeboat Institution (FLBI) Sjöräddningssällskapet – Swedish Sea Rescue Society (SSRS) Network Communications Europe, in Sony Group Pictured attendees: Udo Fox – Executive Director of DGzRS Antke Reemts Marten Feddersen Onno Heyen- DGzRS Martin Fuhr Bolstad and Tor-Arne Nordbø – RS Henk Kok and Carlo Hukema- KNRM Andreas …
Click here to read moreSafetrx is one of the selected products sony is showcasing at IoT solutions world congress Barcelona
SafeTrx is delighted and honoured that Sony is showcasing our new wearable application on the mSafety platform as one of its four selected product areas at this years IoT Solutions World Congress in Barcelona. SafeTrx is delighted and honoured that Sony is showcasing our new wearable application on the mSafety platform as one of its four selected product areas at this years IoT Solutions World Congress in Barcelona. SafeTrx is delighted and honoured that Sony is showcasing our new wearable application on the mSafety platform as one of its four selected product areas at this years IoT Solutions World Congress in Barcelona. SafeTrx is delighted and honoured that Sony is showcasing our new wearable application on the mSafety platform as one of its four selected …
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