Brightree Newest Inmarsat Fleet Connect Dedicated Bandwidth Application Provider
Brightree and Inmarsat, the world leader in global, mobile satellite communications, have signed an agreement for Brightree to join the fast-growing group of certified application providers to offer a dedicated application for Inmarsat’s Fleet Connect service.
Fleet Connect is a dedicated bandwidth service that provides connectivity independent of the ship owners’ primary bandwidth, allowing Application Providers to have an always-on, or on-demand, two-way communication channel to the vessel.
Brightree will use Fleet Connect to offer their Marine Bunker & Fuel Consumption Monitoring application and Remote Engine Monitoring services.
Brightree’s application with a state-of-the-art Coriolis mass flowmeter, to accurately measure marine engine fuel consumption and bunkering transfer, and their Dandelion cloud-based remote contro
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communications system was also cut. now, how hard would that have been to do this? well, there s two communications systems that are involved here. one is a transponder, and that feeds data down to civilian radar. it ceased to function. that may be because of a loss of electricity. the component itself may have failed or it may have been switched off. but of greater interest is a data system known as acars. and this links certain parameters for engine monitoring and other functions, but it was disabled, but only partially. in other words, the data stream was stopped, but the unit stayed in touch with the network, with the satellite network, and to do that requires very special knowledge and it s even above and beyond what a lot of pilots would have. so this level of knowledge is probably one of the leading clues that we have as far as being substantiative. jim, you know, this plane was
wall street journal that rolls royce, which makes the plane s engines, picked up pulses of data from the plane s engines after it disappeared from radar. can you make sense of that for us? well, i think that s entirely possible. you know, its engine monitoring and monitoring the performance of the aircraft and it s a known it s a known quality, quantity. the interesting thing is that the story comes out so much later than, you know, here we are four or five days later. what was going on in the meantime? what was going on in the meantime? nothing because i ve often wondered. i know ntsb investigators are in malaysia help with the investigation, as are faa investigators. but how much input do you think they really have? well, it s i would hope they have a lot because there s certainly nobody more competent