AIS AtoN
AIS Aid to Navigation
provide location an identification of buoys, beacons or floating objects to nearby vessels on AIS chart display in real-time





- AIS AtoN Type 1 Transmitter
- AIS AtoN Type 3 Transponder
- Real-time aids to navigation

AIS AtoN


easyAtoN Type3
AIS AtoN Transceiver
AIS Aid to Navigation transponder
AIS transceiver used as Aid to Navigation station to provide location and identification of buoys, beacons or floating objects to nearby vessels on AIS chartplotter in real-time.
Types of AtoN
Real AIS AtoN
A physical navigation aid on which an AIS transmitter is mounted and from which AIS messages are sent.
Synthetic AIS AtoN
A physical navigation aid without an AIS transmitter, but for which AIS messages are sent from another (usually land-based) location.
Virtual AIS AtoN
A non-physical navigation aid for which AIS messages are sent from another location.
TDMA ACCESS SCHEMES
RATDMA
Random Access Time Division Multiple Access
This access scheme is used when a station needs to allocate a slot, which has not been pre-announced.
FATDMA
Fixed Access Time Division Multiple Access
This access scheme is manually managed. The AIS devices are pre-configured to use specific TDMA (Time Division Multiple Access) slots for all transmissions. FATDMA is used only for AIS base stations and AIS AtoN stations.