Polish Guard Costiera will equip herself of a new national system of marine safety



Polish Guard Costiera has charged the French group Alcatel-Lucent and the computer science society Spanish Indra to realize a system in order to improve safety and the efficiency of the marine traffic in facing waters Poland in the Baltic Sea, one of the most sold marine areas of the world.

The system will in open sea offer to timely and important information for safety and the environmental protection in the coastal areas and in correspondence of the Polish ports of the Baltic Sea, that they enliven 80 million tons of goods every year. Moreover it will integrate support functions, with a center of management of the crises to support of the aid operations.

The new National System of Marine Safety will comprise an integrated net of sensors and apparatuses of communication and the staff of the services of naval traffic (VTS - Vessel Traffic Services) will be in condition for monitoring the movements of the ship and the conditions weather in real time, let alone for identifying and for following the boats using systems of sensors as radar and systems of automatic identification (AIS - Automatic Identification System). The staff will use these information in order to notify to the authorities and the ships the possible risks and to prevent possible incidents and collisions.

The center of management of the crises will afford to the marine authorities to approach the data of the system and will offer a support of communication integrated in case of incident. Notifications on the speed, control and identification of pollution sources are comprised, besides the investigative support in case of incident. The teams of search and aid will be equipped of new systems of communication radio, online with the new Maritime Global norms of the Distress and Safety System (GMDSS).

"Our offices - of Guard Costiera di Danzica has explained assistant manager, Jan Mlotkowski - have worked years in order to define the criteria for the development of marine safety and the security systems for Polish naval waters. It has been necessary to lead a series of scientific analyses and examinations that are consolidated in a complex of technical norms during encounters with the potential ones contractor, defining the confidence procedures progressively. The new system will simplify the acquisition and the exchange of information between the forces engaged in naval safety. In its turn, it will assure a more efficient prevention regarding events not wished, as naval collisions and consequent environmental disasters, returning the continuous analysis of the area more linear and transparent and facilitating the decisional process".

The store clerk previews that Alcatel-Lucent supplies a net of communication with systems of transmission radio to package, routers IP and switches, marine sensors that equip TV, meterological stations and finder directional radios, apparatuses of access vhf radio in order to connect sensors, sites and staff. Besides that Alcatel-Lucent he will cure the civil works and infrastructures of the sites, services of integration, installation, configuration of the solution, activity of formation and planning. Indra will supply instead its solution of marine, comprehensive platform of apparatuses radar and software, that integration of all the remote sensors will constitute the nucleus of the project having afforded so to offer to the authorities a picture in real time of the situation of the naval traffic and the potential connected risks. Indra will plan a solution keys in hand for the harbour offices of Danzica, Stettino and Slupsk, having supplied a unified vision of the marine traffic along all the Polish coasts, incorporating the coming informative flows from the applications of other agencies.