Digital Yacht introduces iSeaSense NMEA 2000 & wireless instrument system
iSeaSense pack 2
Digital Yacht has introduced iSeaSense – a new NMEA 2000 and wireless boat instrument system.
iSeaSense transforms a user’s mobile phone, tablet or iPad into a ‘sophisticated’ boat instrument display for depth, speed, wind, compass and navigation data without even requiring a dedicated app. Multiple devices can connect so all the crew can stay on top of the current data. It’s also NMEA 2000 compatible (the industry standard wired data format) so users can couple into any popular multifunction display, plotter or instrument too.
Digital Yacht says top quality and highly accurate sensors are used for boat depth, speed, wind, compass and GPS data.
iSeaSense is available as two starter packs for power or sail. No app is needed as the iSeaSense wireless server creates graphical and numeric display pages that can be viewed via a browser on any device.
iSeaSense Pack 1 is a boat depth, speed and temperature pack. A spatial sensor is also included for detecting pitch and roll and there’s a sophisticated algorithm for calibrating boat speed information based on heel. An NMEA 2000 backbone cabling pack is included and the wireless interface for connectivity. There is a spare cable and connection point for additional NMEA 2000 devices such as a multifunction display.
iSeaSense Pack 2 has all the capability and components of Pack 1 but includes the WND100 wind sensor with 20m cable and an interface to ‘T’ directly to the NMEA 2000 backbone. It means there’s no heavy NMEA 2000 cabling to the top of the mast and no need for complex and unreliable mast top terminators. Adding wind data also allows for true wind speed, true wind angle and VMG calculations.
iSeaSense is shipping now and will be on display at the Southampton International Boat Show, Stand J417.
