BS EN 61162-1:2016 PDF

What is BS EN 61162-1 - Maritime navigation and radiocommunication about?

BS EN 61162 is a series of European standards on maritime navigation and radiocommunication equipment and systems that discusses the requirements for data transmission from a single talker to one or more listeners. BS EN 61162-1 is the first part of a series of documents on maritime navigation and radiocommunication equipment and systems. BS EN 61162-1 contains the requirements for data communication between maritime electronic instruments, navigation, and radiocommunication equipment when interconnected via an appropriate system. BS EN 61162-1 is intended to support one-way serial data transmission from a single talker to one or more listeners. These data are in printable ASCII form and may include information such as position, speed, depth, frequency allocation, etc. Typical messages may be from about 11 to a maximum of 79 characters in length and generally require the transmission no more rapidly than one message per second. The electrical definitions in BS EN 61162-1 are not intended to accommodate high-bandwidth applications such as radar or video imagery, or intensive database or file transfer applications. Since there is no provision for guaranteed delivery of messages and only limited error checking capability, BS EN 61162-1 should be used with caution in all safety applications. For applications wher...