Maritime Inmarsat C

Inmarsat C offers Messaging, Fleet Management, Supervisory Control & Data Acquisition (SCADA) and Homeland Security & Maritime Safety Solutions that make it possible to perform a broad range of data applications. Using a small, inexpensive satellite terminal, users can send and receive data files and reports up to 32 kilobytes.

Service Features

Inmarsat C offers satellite communications for:

• E-Mail
• Fax  
• Data
• Telex

Messaging

Inmarsat C is ideally suited for short messaging requirements. Your data messages can be transmitted by mobile units and by fixed data communications devices, such as personal computers, fax and telex machines.

Applications include:

• E-mail access via the Internet
• Telex messaging
• Fax messaging
• Data Transfers
• Asset Polling
• Short Messaging Service (SMS)

Benefits

• Global Coverage
• No special terminal software required for Internet e-mail messaging
• User does not need to know the location of the mobile recipient
• Flexible enough to send mobile-to-fixed messages in 8, 7 or 5-bit format
• Complementary notification of fixed-to-mobile and mobile-to-fixed message non-delivery
• Economical communication costs through fixed-to-mobile billing
• No monthy service subscription fees
• Manage messages with a convenient Friends, Family and Business Associations List

Fleet Management

Inmarsat C enables fleet management data solutions that can help users achieve  operating and budgetary goals by allowing them to stay connected with their fleet, whether on land, at sea, or in flight.  Inmarsat C allows users to send a broadcast message to an entire fleet as well as track and monitor company assets.

• FleetNet^SM - Enhanced Group CAll (EGC) Broadcast Service
• Departmental billing
• Polling & Data Reporting (PDR)
• SmartTRAC^TM software
• Asset tracking

Supervisory Control & Data Acquisition (SCADA)

Inmarsat C supports Supervisory Control & Data Acquisition (SCADA) solutions that enable users to effectively manage their global operations by linking SCADA units to computers that control them from anywhere in the world.  Data packets are transmitted from remote locations at pre-programmed intervals and support activities such as:

• Environmental data monitoring
• Remote control data acquisition
• Security controls
• Remote equipment maintenance
• Seismic monitoring
• Navigational monitoring

Homeland Security & Maritime Safety

Inmarsat C service offers port security, asset tracking and maritime safety solutions for mariners around the world.

• Port security
• Asset tracking
• GMDSS (Global Maritime Distress and Safety System)
• SafetyNet
• Amver (formerly known as Automatced Mutual-assistance VEssel Rescue) program
• SEAS (Shipboard Environmental [data] Acquisition System) program

Inmarsat C Interfaces

Telenor has several interface options to make it even easier for end-users to connect to Inmarsat C services.

• Internet Drop Service
• Inmarsat C Web Interface
• Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)