Features

Freeais.org is a Java based application to receive AIS information from vessels.

Freeais.org is a software for:

  • Monitoring of vessels with our own sea chart rendering engine

  • Search for a vessel with a certain criteria
    You do not know where to find your vessel? No problem, just search it!

  • Sea chart calibration
    calibrate “raw” card material with our mercator or approximisation algorithms

  • Radar View
    monitor vessels with a radar screen around your antenna location or home zone

  • Alerting
    it is possible to define an alerting zone within your charts or projection and so that you are notified if some vessels are in your alert ing zone

  • Vessel details
    Within our user interface or via the Google Earth export it is possible to view details about a certain vessel like speed, size, navigation state etc.

  • Receiving AIS data via a serial connection (RS232)
    you can attach a receiver for example SR162 to the serial port of your PC and with an apppropriate antenna you are able to decode AIS data with freeais.org

  • Google Earth Export
    received data can not only be presented within our application, it is also possible to view obtained data within Google Earth.

  • Exchange Data via our Freeais.org network
    Freeais.org provides an own mechanism for exchanging data with other stations via a central server.

  • Shipplotter data import
    If you already own a shipplotter license you can also import data from a shipplotter server into our application.

  • Multiplatform support
    As freeais.org was written in Java and we kept multiplatform support in mind from the very first beginning, their should be no problem to run freeais.org on Windows and Linux. MacOSX should also work but we have not been able to test this so far due to the lack of some Apple hardware :-(.

  • Open source
    Yes freeais.org comes to you as open source and free of charge. Freeais.org was designed to be a long lifecycle software, which means that it should be no problem to extend it to users needs. Freeais.org will be licensed under the terms of GNU General Public License v3 please visit Frequently Asked Questions about the GNU GPL to learn more.