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AIS Receiver on Mt Toro

We have a AIS Receiver located up on Mt Toro that is collecting AIS data and sending to three separate locations. We consume the messages internally using a script that runs on the server Pismo and pushes those locations into the MBARI tracking database (which is used by the ODSS). The same script also pushes those same messages to the AISHub service. On Mt. Toro, the Moxa device that takes in the data from the receiver is also configured to push the raw messages from the receiver over TCP to a server at MarineTraffic.

graph LR subgraph MBARI micro-cup(Microwave at MBARI) pismo(Pismo Python Script
Telnet to Port 2007 Moxa) trackingdb(Tracking Database) end subgraph Mount Toro micro-toro(Microwave at Toro) ethernet-sw(Ethernet Switch) moxa(Moxa NPort 5610-16
134.89.45.2) moxa-7(Port 7) moxa-8(Port 8) splitter(Serial Splitter) ais-rec(ST162 AIS Receiver) vhf-pre(VHF Preselector) vhf-dipole(VHF Dipole Antenna) end subgraph Internet subgraph MarineTraffic server(Ingest Server
5.9.207.224 6106) end subgraph AISHub server-2(Ingest Server
144.76.105.244 2629) end end micro-cup <--> micro-toro micro-toro <--> ethernet-sw <--> moxa moxa-7 --> moxa moxa-8 --> moxa splitter --> moxa-7 splitter --> moxa-8 ais-rec --> splitter vhf-pre --> ais-rec vhf-dipole --> vhf-pre moxa -- TCP connection over microwave through MBARI Network --> server micro-cup --> pismo pismo --> trackingdb pismo -- TCP connection --> server-2

Resources

  1. Mt. Toro Moxa Web UI (Check with Information Engineering or IS if you need the login information)
  2. Moxa Manual
  3. SR162 AIS Receiver Manual
  4. MarineTraffic AIS Station Page
  5. AISHub Station Page