Raytheon Anschütz exhibits its new, IMO-certified Synapsis Intelligent Bridge Control system[ds_preview] at this years Nor-Shipping, as well as the new Horizon MF as a maintenance-free gyro compass. Horizon MF is a new strap-down compass system which uses hemispherical resonator gyros to measure angular rates for heading calculation. According to Raytheon Anschütz, it comes as a maintenance-free sensor with an outstanding lifetime performance. The system seamlessly integrates into a Standard 22 gyro compass system and into the Synapsis Intelligent Bridge Control system.
The bridge control system is the first integrated navigation system (INS) which is type approved according to the new IMO performance standard MSC.252(83). This standard requires to integrate the tasks of collision avoidance, route monitoring, route planning, navigation control data display, status and data display as well as a centralized human-machine interface for alert management on multi-functional displays. It also provides integration of sensor data and information such as MSI, AIS, charts, radar, centralized alarm management, system status display and reliability indication for important equipment. The product comes with a new architecture, typically based on multifunctional workstations featuring an innovative infrastructure software framework, which serves as the »synapsis integration platform« within the redundant bridge ethernet network.
The synapsis bridge system is ready to comply with the demanding class notations including DNV Naut-OSV and -AW.
