GPS asset tracking of dinghy via AIS

[mgrouch]

Idea is to track dinghy using Lora/LoraWan GPS trackers and see them on a chartplotter as AIS targets.

So the gateway plugin should generate nmea AIS messages for tracked dingy, location of which
can come from Lora, LoraWan or cloud service.

Thanks,

[tkurki]

If you want to go directly from a GPS tracker to GPS you can do that just fine without Signal K.

But instead of doing everything in one plugin you can leverage the Signal K system, data model and other plugins: bring the data to SK and use plugins for output.

signalk-to-NMEA2000 operates on Signal K data - so if you want to see your dinghy on your N2K plotter as an AIS target all you need to do is generate the appropriate Signal K vessel data and activate the plugin.

signalk-to-NMEA0183 does not yet do the same, but this could be added to that plugin.

This would also bring all other benefits on having the data in Signal K: Freeboard and vesselpositions can show the position, you can write the data to a db, access it remotely etc.

[mgrouch]

This solution looks interesting using Wio Terminal and and Seeeduino.

https://www.seeedstudio.com/LoRa-GPS-Tracker-with-Wio-Terminal.html

Unfortunately an enclosure for the transmitter part is not included into the kit.

[VladimirKalachikhin]

Especially for this, but not via LoRa:
https://github.com/VladimirKalachikhin/netAIS

However, if you really want to SignalK, use this:
https://github.com/VladimirKalachikhin/netAIS-Signal-K
But tor is required anyway.

[mgf909]

I like this idea - many times ive wondered how the kids are out in the tender.. Have they run out of fuel, engine problems or just having fun....

@mgrouch Your link above doesnt work anymore, but it did lead me to these https://www.seeedstudio.com/LoRaWAN-Tracker-c-1938.html

Did anyone progress this any further?

Cheers,
Greg

[Walkabout01]

Not directly related to the subject but perhaps relevant: I track my dingy (possibly also a MOB) with a GPS AIS fishing net tracking buoy (about 100 $, rechargeable battery for 2 weeks of operation, 10NM range) . . . May not be legal in your country.