December 23, 2019 Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
It was one more crazy year for us, full of ideas, new products, and new friends. Thanks to everyone for your interest to our products, your emails with ideas, wishes and even gifts sent to us. Your love inspires us to make the best products on the market. These are the reasons why sometimes we work at weekends or at deep night — we want to create something that was never seen or even impossible before.
This year we presented six new products and each one of them is unique on the market:
- NMEA 0183 Multiplexer — the simplest multiplexer to install, thanks to auto detection of port speeds and configuration presets that you can switch with press of a hidden button.
- NMEA 2000 Wi-Fi Router — this has all marine interfaces on board, with flexible routing among them, the best SeaTalk1-0183-N2K conversion, Web Gauges, data logging and cloud backup. What else could we add?
- NMEA 2000 Alarm Button — so clever, so it was nominated for the DAME Design Award!
- NMEA 2000 Run Indicator — not only visualization and digitizing of manually switched loads and DC sources, but offers a smart processor driven by user rules. It can even detect water leaks!
- NMEA 2000 Ethernet Gateway — we were sure that we wouldn't be able to fit this product into a tiny case. But we did it! It supports Web Gauges, data logging and cloud backup.
- Cloud Services — this allows you to access your tracks from home and share your position. And be sure, we'll add more features soon! And it is free, with no limits on data age or size. Right now it works only with the NMEA 2000 Wi-Fi Router, but in 2020 it will be supported in all our products with Wi-Fi or Ethernet interfaces.
Along with it, we continue to develop our existing products:
- NMEA 2000 Bridge — we seriously extended the language, added trigonometry and math, and added encryption to distribute protected programs. And now it is used by several companies to distribute custom gateways to end users.
- Rudder Adapter — now this can be converted with a setting to trim the tabs sensor or work as an adapter for any kind of angular sensor and send data, e.g. the rotary mast angle, to Garmin Custom Channels.
- Tank Adapter — now it support digital switching, and can be converted into an adapter for a pressure sensor, and our customers use it with Volvo Penta KAD and TAMD engines.
- Engine Gateways (for CAN and for J1708) — we already included a lot of features and protocols to these products, and the last addition was substitution of engine data with data from NMEA 2000 sensors. If some sensors on your engine are not digitized by ECU, this is the solution.
- Wi-Fi, USB and 0183 gateways — they got a lot of updates and the best conversion engine between NMEA 0183 and NMEA 2000.
This year, only 4 of our 24 products did not get updates: after adding history data download and digital switching support to our temperature, humidity and atmospheric pressure sensors in 2018, we had a temporary crisis of new ideas. At the same time, we are working on a new generation of sensors with a battery, to continue measurements when NMEA 2000 power is off.
In January, we'll release the Battery Monitor, which will be a Swiss army knife for battery monitoring. It will even allow configuration of your own discharge curve which is used to detect the charge state and health of the battery. The next expected product is a 4-channel adapter for resistive and voltage sensors, which should be available before May. Having all functions of our 1-channel Tank Adapter, it will be a cost effective solution for tank monitoring.
We hope that 2020 will be as productive for us as this year, and that we will bring cheer to your boat with five or six new products. We have several new products in development, but we will announce them after tests on the water in May.
We invite you to Booth C13 in Hall 10 of Boot Dusseldorf 2020, the booth of Kiel Nautic (Mathias Busse), on January 18-26, where our products will be exhibited and you'll be able to test them in action. We'll also be at the expo January 18-21, but will not be at the booth all the time. Please contact us for an appointment at Booth 10.C13. We'll be glad to meet users, dealers and everyone who is interested in learning more about our products.
Our technical support and orders department will be available on all working days except December 31 — January 2, orders placed during these short holidays will be sent out on January 3.
Thank you for a dynamic and very interesting year, we wish you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Next articles:
- The Run Indicator is in stock / December 16, 2019
- New cables for Engine Gateway / December 13, 2019
- Yacht Devices at METS Trade 2019 / November 27, 2019
Previous articles:
- The Ethernet Gateway is in stock / December 25, 2019
- New case for the NMEA 2000 Bridge YDNB-07 / June 18, 2020
- Critical update for Ethernet Gateway / June 26, 2020
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