AntennaPilot

Ship IT software: problems solved on board, before they reach the office

Six tools for passenger and expedition vessels: satellite TV antennas, crew Wi-Fi on SonicWall, NAS backups, PC time, passage planning and live position screens. Written and tested at sea by a shipboard IT officer.

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  • 24 hdemo on install
  • 3 monthsfree licence on request
  • No cloud accountruns on the ship network
Simulated time ×60. Drag to turn the view.

Links from the ship

Position
Simulated time
Starlink satellite
Elevation / azimuth
Slant range
One-way delay
Next reassignment
Above 25° now
34.5° W elevation
34.5° W range / delay
GPS above 10°
    Shells as filed with the FCC (altitude, inclination, planes × satellites) and the six GPS planes at 55°; satellites are evenly phased, not live positions. The 53° shells never rise above 25° this far south, so the polar shells carry the link. Delay is the slant range divided by the speed of light; GEO elevation uses the AntennaPilot formulas.

    Six calls a superintendent should not have to take

    Each tool answers one problem that comes up on passenger ships. Start with the one that cost your fleet the most this year.

    1. "Guests have had no TV since we left the fjord."

      AntennaPilot

      Keeps the TV antenna on the right satellite: it computes AZ/EL beside the ACU and re-points the antenna after blockage or a wrong lock.

      Windows 10 / 11 / 3 months free

      See how it works 24 h free + 3 months

      SeaTel and Cobham are trademarks of their respective owners. This application is not affiliated with or endorsed by Cobham Satcom or Sea Tel, Inc.

    2. "Every month, the data allowance ran out before the month did."

      Device Manager for SonicWall

      Registers laptops, phones and tablets as MAC Address Objects in the right groups. On the day their access ends, it lists them for removal and waits for your confirmation. Devices that run VPNs can be quarantined to a slow, WhatsApp-only lane.

      Windows / Android / 3 months free

      See how it works 24 h free + 3 months

      SonicWall is a registered trademark of SonicWall Inc. This application is not affiliated with or endorsed by SonicWall Inc.

    3. "Nobody noticed that the backup had stopped."

      BackupPilot for Synology NAS

      Watches one or many Synology NAS units from a Windows dashboard and raises an alarm when a backup window is missed or a backup looks wrong. Any third-party backup written to the NAS can be monitored as a source.

      Windows 10 / 11 / 3 months free

      See how it works 24 h free + 3 months

      Synology, DSM, Hyper Backup and Active Backup for Business are trademarks of Synology Inc. BackupPilot is independent software, not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Synology Inc.

    4. "Where will we be at 06:00, and what will the sea be doing?"

      RoutePilot

      Route planning on the chart, with the weather matched to the ETA of every waypoint, live NMEA tracking and route exchange with ECDIS.

      Windows 10 / 11 / 3 months free

      See how it works 24 h free + 3 months

    5. "Guests keep calling the bridge to ask where we are."

      Wakeline

      Live map that follows the sun and the weather on every cabin TV and guest phone, story cards with explorers, wildlife and the country beyond the horizon, and cards your expedition team makes on board. Delivered configured for your vessel.

      Onboard server, delivered configured

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    6. "Half the PCs are still on yesterday's time zone."

      EightBells Fleet Time Manager

      Sets the timezone and repairs the clock of every Windows PC in the ship's domain, finds and removes software fleet-wide and manages PCs remotely over WinRM. Everything runs from one admin PC, without agents or cloud.

      Windows 10 / 11 / 3 months free

      See how it works 24 h free + 3 months
    Razvan Malciu

    Written by the person who takes these calls

    Razvan Malciu is IT and cyber security officer on an expedition cruise vessel. Every tool here started as a fix for a problem on his own ship and runs there every day, on the same satellite link and the same equipment your crews use.

    Read how the tools were built

    Try any tool on one ship, free for three months

    Install it, use the 24-hour demo, then request a licence from the app. The server issues a free 3-month licence automatically. Wakeline is delivered configured, on a quote.

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