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ePilotBook

ePilotBook is a web application for marine pilots, but also for pilot boats, helping boatages and captaincies.

ePilotBook displays up-to-date and real-time information about the environment in which these professionals evolve.

ePilotBook can be used from a smartphone, a tablet or a PC, and especially from an iPhone or IPad.

ePilotBook has no equivalent!

Centralized data, simplified update
A particularly affordable solution
Simple and intuitive, feature-rich
The communication tool with the ship's master
Bathymetric charts' exploitation
Subscription Option: Geomod provides service

How it works

ePilotBook is a web application mainly designed for marine pilots. It allows the pilot to have at any time the most up-to-date environmental information as well as real-time data such as AIS, the winds, the water levels, and even the position of landed vehicles.

In particular, ePilotBook is a communication tool with the captain to explain the manoeuvre, follow it and then debrief, by visualising in particular the “sea passages plans”, the position in relation to a theoretical sea route or using the replay tool.

Operated from a smartphone or an iPad Mini, ePilotBook is not a nuisance to the pilot, while remaining available at any time.

Data centralization

ePilotBook is a modern and efficient evolution of Pilot’s note books allowing :

  • ENC / Port ENC display, layer organization, queryable objects

  • bENC display, ability for each Pilot to select an accurate safety contour value

  • Ability to simply measure distance and bearing between any selected points among accurate data

  • Real time and source approved AIS & anemometer display, suitable portrayal (pilot boat, tug, …)

  • Backup GPS positioning

  • Optimized use of cache in case of interrupted network communication

  • Ability to follow an AIS track

  • Estimated Distance and Time arrival at specific waypoint for any target

Real time data

  • AIS

  • Anometers

  • Tide gauges

  • Geolocalized vehicles

Functionalities

The ePilotBook interface provides access to many of the most common features available in a single click. ePilotBook allows to:

  • Display or not each predefined information layer

  • Select its safety isobath, allowing to immediately distinguish safe waters from unsafe waters for a given water level

  • Select a mobile (click on the mobile or from the list of mobiles seen by the connected AIS) and visualise its trace

  • Query a wind gauge

  • Define and visualise a guard area around a mobile

  • Calculate an ETA, a direction and a distance

  • Draw a path

  • Replay the history of the last hours (replay function)

  • Archive a history to replay it later (controlled access)

Benefits

  • Modularity: ePilotBook is organized in modules in order to offer a dedicated environment for each pilotage service and each user group (marine pilot, pilot boats, other user).

  • Confidentiality: Each user owns a login and password to ensure the confidentiality of the data. Archiving for replay purposes is also controlled.

  • Deployment: Geomod offers several solutions to implement ePilotBook. It can be a rental or a perpetual licence.

  • Hosting: Geomod can also ensure ePilotBook hosting on a dedicated server, an adapted solution to the pilotage services without a suitable IT service.