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BareFLEET Data Capture

Fully compatible with wide range of engines, navigation systems and third-party systems, BareFLEET captures and consolidates critical vessel data for analysis:

Comprehensive data capabilities and benefits

Felix Francis (Technical Director)

Felix is a control engineering specialist with 25 years experience in marine and diesel automotive industries. He was responsible for engineering the control system for Siemen's "Seagen" subsea tidal turbine, generating thousands of MWHrs of clean electricity. He has considerable practical marine experience, having developed a range of systems that operate in punishing marine environments. Felix trained as both a mechanical and control systems engineer and is the lead technical authority for the design of new products at Reygar.

Felix Francis (Technical Director)

Felix is a control engineering specialist with 25 years experience in marine and diesel automotive industries. He was responsible for engineering the control system for Siemen's "Seagen" subsea tidal turbine, generating thousands of MWHrs of clean electricity. He has considerable practical marine experience, having developed a range of systems that operate in punishing marine environments. Felix trained as both a mechanical and control systems engineer and is the lead technical authority for the design of new products at Reygar.

StemTIDE

Dynamic Positioning

StemTIDE is a simple and affordable dynamic positioning control system for use on small commercial vessels. It can also be adapted for use on autonomous and remotely controlled craft. The system provides single joystick control of all vessel thrusters and rudders, as well as fully automatic holding of position and heading. The system can follow a set course and speed over the ground, follow an ROV or carry out a programmed mission. It is particularly effective operating in strong tidal and river currents.

StemTIDE is versatile and above all simple to use.

Benefits

Here are some advantages of StemTIDE:

Greatly improved manoeuvrability for small commercial vessels under joystick control
Excellent positional accuracy in auto mode, less strain than holding position manually
Ideal for survey vessels following a track over the ground at slow speed
Effective in strong tidal and river currents
Can be retro-fitted to existing propulsion and steering systems
Affordable solution for overall control of small autonomous vessels
Controller has compact and lightweight physical form
Designed to IMO guidelines for "DP0" systems

Severn Sea workboat, ROV support and survey vessel with StemTIDE installed

Remote Control and Autonomous Vessels

For remotely controlled or semi-autonomous vessel applications, StemTIDE can work with a remote control console via HF RF or mobile GSM. All the features of normal dynamic positioning control are available. This includes the ability to hover in a fixed position in wind and tide until a joystick command to move in a particular direction is received.

A live camera feed can be incorporated to provide a first person view. The "Return Home" function can bring the vessel back home automatically in the event of extended loss of communications or critical low battery.

Extended missions can be programmed into the controller as a series of waypoints and speeds. There is the flexibility to programme further intelligence into the control system for autonomous applications. There is also the possibility to combine StemTIDE with the remote monitoring features of BareFLEET, to provide an effective SCADA system for autonomous vessels.

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