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Insight X2-VMS Appliance Manual 1.0

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Page 1: ...re confident your new purchase will provide an outstanding experience of edge based precision engineered technology Please take a few minutes to read through the instruction manual and familiarize yourself with the installation and setup process To ensure you have the latest instruction manual please visit https nauticalert com support instruction manuals ...

Page 2: ...ight Home Screen Overview 11 Alarm Indicator and Siren 11 Warning Dashboard 12 VMS Appliance Views 13 GPS View 13 VMS Messaging 14 Message Notifications 14 Address Book 15 VMS Settings 16 Declarations and Prelanding Reports 17 Nautic Alert Insight Manager 18 System Settings 18 Alert Notifications 18 Add New Wireless Sensor 18 Vessel Name 18 System Password 18 Daily Status Reporting 19 Receive Publ...

Page 3: ...Page 3 Alert Recipients 22 Adding an Alert Contact 22 Firmware Updates 23 System Info 24 Mobile Access 25 Position Updates 26 ...

Page 4: ...ured on Nautic Alert s Insight X2 platform but only offers the VMS application discussed herein However if additional non VMS applications are wanted the full Insight X2 can be used With the full Insight X2 platform the VMS Application as shown in this manual is available in addition to the following non VMS applications as discussed in the Insight X2 Manual GEOS Monitored Search And Rescue with r...

Page 5: ...ment noaa fisheries type approved vms units Patents US8531316 B2 USD687733 S1 US20140266793 A1 Product Labeling Requirements Device Contains FCC ID MCQ S2CTH MCQ PS2CTH and SBD9603X This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules Operation is subject to the following two conditions 1 This device may not cause harmful interferences and 2 this device must accept any interference received includin...

Page 6: ... 25 or 50 LMR cables to easily connect to the back of Insight 25 cables provide the most flexibility with a small diameter cable that is easy to run and bend The 50 Iridium cable is larger in diameter than the 25 cable and thus the 25 cable is recommended if the overall length between Insight and the antennas is less than 25 The antennas can be flush mounted bracket mounted as shown above or used ...

Page 7: ...h the two side mounts to Insight prior to attaching to the mating bracket assembly 4 4 40 x machine screws hold the side brackets to Insight DO NOT OVERTIGHTEN If using the bracket and mounting in a vertical configuration the bracket mates together every 18 degrees including 90 degrees and use 2 M4 machine screws to fasten the side mounts to the main mount At least 2 4 screws are recommended for a...

Page 8: ... drawn as well as prevent cycling of the Insight At least 11 volts is required for your Insight to power on otherwise the Mute and Display buttons will blink red to indicate a low voltage is present This feature is particularly useful in solar panel moored installations where it s necessary to charge the boat s batteries to a sufficient level prior to putting an additional load on the batteries Al...

Page 9: ...ounting Insight dimensions are shown in inches below Additional margin is needed for Insight cabling exit strain relief on the back side in addition to the depth dimension shown below Recommended panel cutout dimensions for flush mounting ...

Page 10: ...n the monthly costs will vary This matrix of costs explains the plan differences https nauticalert com nautic alert platform reporting services VMS Once activation occurs leave the device powered on and wait 24 48 hours At that time Nautic Alert will contact you or you can contact Nautic Alert at 1 800 385 1674 to acquire necessary details required by NOAA which include the following Operating Reg...

Page 11: ...A fishery regions Alarm Indicator and Siren A loss of satellite communications or positioning will display applicable dashboard warning indicators as well as illuminate the Alarm Indicator and activate the LCD display for a visual indicator of a problem that needs to be addressed Mobile App users will be notified of these events if alerts are enabled System Settings Alarm Indicator Mute Siren Enab...

Page 12: ...nings dashboard may contain one or more red warning notifications as shown below GPS position unknown Satellite connectivity lost Integrated siren muted No alert recipients programmed Required for remote notifications Message received ...

Page 13: ...nsight s reporting services must be activated satellite and GPS signals must be sufficient and then the mobile app or web portal can be used to validate successful position reports are being sent The Nautic Alert Cloud contains a watchdog for VMS position events and can notify authorized recipients in the event of position or communication disruptions These events include GPS signal loss restored ...

Page 14: ...elivery to the Nautic Alert Cloud can be displayed as well as the contents of the message by pressing the message in the message log Message Notifications Upon receiving a new message the message received dashboard icon will display and the LCD will automatically illuminate The messaging navigation tab will also display a message icon If the message beep setting is enabled in the system settings t...

Page 15: ...apping the Create New button once inside of the messages view Address Book The address book automatically adds any messaging recipient or sender for simple management A new message can be drafted by selecting an entry from the address book log ...

Page 16: ...ngs The VMS Settings contains the region of operation which is used to display the correct forms for declarations and prelanding if relevant The Messaging Address is the address that NOAA can use to message your device ...

Page 17: ...ope will be present for each item in the list that is sending If an error occurs an error icon will be displayed otherwise the sending icon will disappear to show a successful delivery occurred Every entry will continue to retry sending unless the operation is aborted If aborting an entry is desired simply press the entry from the list then press the Abort button on the bottom of the screen When c...

Page 18: ...ore details For the VMS Appliance alerts include VMS Watchdog events such as loss of communications or position Add New Wireless Sensor Not applicable to VMS Appliance Vessel Name Name that distinguishes your yacht or Insight when you receive a text message This is especially useful if you have more than one Insight as it will tell you which Insight is generating the incoming message System Passwo...

Page 19: ...ing Not applicable to VMS Appliance Received Message Beep Toggles between disabled Beep Once or Beep Continuous This is the setting for the audible alert setting that accompanies a received VMS message LCD Settings And Inactivity Timeout Controls the brightness of the LCD and how long the LCD will stay on after a user touch event The LCD will automatically turn on if an alert is present ...

Page 20: ...Page 20 The remaining system settings are shown here for completeness only and are not applicable to the VMS Appliance ...

Page 21: ...g is an example of the event log with multiple events present Pressing an event will show additional details about the event in particular if the event was sent or why it was not sent and any issues that were observed in sending the event The event log will hold up to about 50 event messages Once the event log is full a new message will cause the oldest message to be discarded ...

Page 22: ...e admin can use the mobile app or web portal to add additional users Adding an Alert Contact To add a new alert contact simply press the button shown here Next you will be prompted for the cell phone number and a verification code will be sent to that number In order to add an alert recipient the device must have an active Iridium subscription ...

Page 23: ...firmware updates Enter the WiFi application then select Select Access Point to display available SSIDs and connect The easiest way to facilitate connecting to the internet may be to enable your phone s hot spot then connect Insight to your phone The firmware image is typically less than 3MB which is extremely small and will not have any noticeable impact to cellular data usage Once connected press...

Page 24: ...once complete you will be prompted to install the update Once the update is installed Insight will automatically reboot Do not interrupt this process by removing system power System Info The system info contains the firmware version of your Insight and mobile cell number assigned to the Insight as well as the modem MEID The MEID is the number needed to activate Insight via Nautic Alert s activatio...

Page 25: ...ices that contain your cell phone are automatically linked to your Nautic Alert account Using the mobile app all devices can easily be viewed simultaneously in the Fleet View VMS position loss and restored events as well as communications lost and restored events are pushed as push notifications to app users if alerts are enabled ...

Page 26: ...Page 26 Position Updates From the location view the last position update timestamp can easily be determined ...

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