AIS in Japan. Vesseltracker Japan Taro Yoshikawa

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1 AIS in Japan Vesseltracker Japan Taro Yoshikawa

2 agenda Japan AIS market Vessel tracking/management system Devices (class B) My activities Developing AIS land stations Japan Sailing Federation Association project Antenna development AIS-SART

3 about me Vesseltracker Japan representative and CEO of a consultation company in Tokyo Japan Networks and Radio technology background Work experiences with Dell Computer Japan, IT Northern Telecom Japan, Data Switches Lucent Technology Japan, Mobile System Educated in the USA Interests Sailing Yacht Amateur radio, JA1NEU

4 History of AIS In 2008, based on IMO AIS Guideline (2001), Government mandated for ships with 300GT or more (Class A) A to N AIS also deployed in major ports In 2009, Class B AIS regulation completed, no mandated for small ships including fishing ships In 2010, AIS-SART approved for all ships

5 AIS stakeholders Japan Cost Guard (land stations) Covered all over Japan, data strictly confidential-internal VTS use only (200 stations) Local government (Port Radios) Covered most key ports, a private company (TST) exclusively contracted with local governments who responsible for port safety operation & management (45 stations) Private AIS networks AIS Live Japan developed AIS land stations for focused areas as providing services for limited domestic ships vesseltracker Japan is one of major developers of AIS land stations nationwide (70% covered as of today)

6 Major Ports (126) Fishing Ports (3,000+)

7 Japan statistic Total vessel number(over 100GT): world wide= 88,000, 50% are merchant,load capacity=540,000,000gt Japan Flag vessels= 4,600 (10% of ww) 100 vessels for merchant vessels Load capacity=13,000,000gt (3% of ww) 2,000 vessels including chartered Excluding fishing/pleasure boats

8 AIS Japan Market Size Vessel tracking/management system Major: NYK(838ships),MOL(861ships), K Line(363ships) Middle/small shipping lines: 180 companies Container Ports (international):62 LNG Ports:47 Central terminal (oil) stations: 12 LPG Ports (major):6 AIS Transponders (small ships only: Class B) Total 406,447 boats Pleasure boat/yacht:224,449 Fishing boats:77,206 Passenger/working boat:32,227

9 AIS ship installation SOLAS ship (Class A)* Total 100 vessels; 100% deployed Non-SOLAS (Class B) Total 50,000 costal ships; less than 1% deployed Total 314,330 fishing/pleasure boats; less than 1% deployed *Considering AIS as a tool of risk/crisis management for SOLAS ships operators

10 AIS Transponders (Class B) Furuno (FA-50):$5,000 JRC: Class A only icom(ma-500tr):w/ radar type display $1,700 e-chart(ecb200):$2,500 WestMarine (AIS-1000):$1,000 Q-Sync (AIS-700): $800

11 Points of Japan market Very new, open and niche market Major AIS device venders targeting SOLAS vessels as well (Class A) There are few general use tracking system* Government is focusing on only SOLAS vessels Government regulated AIS data not be used for open public as well as export control *vesseltracker.com released Japanese language version

12 JSAF Project Japan Sailing Federation (JSAF) required additional racing safety program* AIS system will be JSAF racing standard AIS-SART will be practical solution for safety JSAF testing AIS performance (starts May 2013) vesseltracker.com for tracking system AIS coverage Class B AIS signal reception AIS-SART test at sea Kobe-Yokohama race is 340 mile(50 hrs.ave) *JSAF lost one skipper during the race one years ago

13 7 Stations installed CX4 Omni dipole (AC Marine) 3 ele Yagi (Innov Antennas)

14 Before Improved area After Course 340 mile

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16 70mile 55mile

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18 Actual

19 AIS-SART device on life-sling easyrescue Sponsored by WeartherDock

20 AIS-SART test at sea AIS-SART

21 AIS-SART Market is waiting this type of devises Usage will be for life-raft not for personal Government just accepted as a safety equipment by the regulation Type approval fee is very expensive Need better MOB display/plotter system

22 Learned from the project People did not know what is AIS Antenna installation is hard for non-technical people PC skills and network knowledge are not mature enough vesseltracker.com is very useful to educate AIS Shows interests to AIS for ships/boats AIS-SART is excellent technology for real safety Need to explain Pros/Cons of AIS Good signs of the market opening

23 Thank you!