MARSS, a company that develops innovative marine and land-based systems for asset protection and life-saving solutions, has won the Best Safety Product of the Year at this year’s prestigious Safety at Sea Awards 2018.
Mobtronic is a multi-sensor detection and tracking system that through multiple radars simultaneously monitors the ship wall ensuring falling objects are detected and tracked. Mobtronic protects the lives and safety of passengers and crew by creating a virtual shield around a vessel which automatically detects and classifies a man-overboard event and supports rescue and recovery efforts.
The system consists of small marinised pods that are strategically positioned to cover the volume around an entire vessel or platform. The Mobtronic pods feature a patented configuration of sensors that reliably notify crew when a man-overboard event occurs, minimize false alarms and operate even in harshest environments. Using a combination of multi-sensor data and MARSS proprietary software, Mobtronic differentiates a genuine event from false positive detections caused by birds, breaking waves and other objects. Mobtronic does not require wearable tags, which could be removed, either intentionally or unintentionally. Alerts, live tracking and video playback are displayed on the intuitive Mobtronic user interface to aid crew in managing SAR operations and to analyse a MOB incident.
Mobtronic evolved from a European Union research programme with over 7,000 test jumps, extensive sea trials and industry participation over the last 5 years. Having been trialed in diverse marine environments, Mobtronic has a proven probability of detection in excess of 95% and false alarm rates of less than 3 a week. The system is already successfully installed on Royal New Zealand Navy vessels and operational in the Southern Ocean
