Dear Friends,
Our organization is one of the largest Offshore construction company in the oil and gas industry. We operate our work through various vessels (ships) in different part of the world. For our local office here in Sharjah, we wanted to create a system where we can monitor our vessel movement on continuous basis. With this live monitoring of vessel we want to overlay our GIS database as a background, so that we can know where our vessel is? Means its continues updated position, course of navigation, speed, etc.
We have the subscription of Marine Traffic, which shows the latest position of any ship in there website. But the problem is we cannot load GIS data in the marine traffic. So we are looking for any solution which fulfills our requirement by considering cost saving and efficiency of the system or software or any GIS related tool for vessel live tracking.
Currently we are using ArcGIS 10.3 Desktop.We want to load the live vessel data in ArcGIS, so that we can monitor vessel in our database background. There are many example of such system for live monitoring using ArcGIS platform. As per my knowledge ESRI is having this facility ArcGIS Server – Geoevent Server.
What I want to know from all of you about
- is there any software or system available where we can integrate live vessel track data with ArcGIS?
- Is it mandatory to have ArcGIS Server to use Geoevent Server for live vessel tracking?
- Can we integrate the vessel monitoring data (AIS) in ArcGIS Desktop?
- What about Web Based GIS System for live navigation monitoring?
- Is it possible to integrate positioning of ships to the GIS in real time?
- All those vessel has to be showed in real time in a televisions around the office.
- How API is integrated into GIS.
I come across some examples where this type of vessel tracking using ArcGIS or any other software is in use. Like Eni, Petronas, BP, Shell. These organizations are also using their own developed systems for live monitoring of their vessels or vehicles.
Can anybody kindly suggest me any solutions for my queries regarding above mention information?
A quick and detailed response is really appreciated in advance.
Thanks & Regards,
Rahul Devidas Pawar
Data Processor
SAIPEM,Sharjah, UAE