The second place for the team of employees of the Faculty of Navigation of the Maritime University in Szczecin in the Galileo Masters 2014 - European Satellite Navigation Competition.
In the recently finished Galileo Masters 2014 competition which aims at finding and supporting of the most interesting ideas and projects using satellite navigation, the team of employees of the Faculty of Navigation of the Maritime University in Szczecin took the 2nd place in the European University Challenge category (among over 400 applications from 26 countries) for development of the NAVDEC Navigational Decision Support System.
In the Polish edition of the competition, Sup4Nav - a spin-out company of the Maritime University in Szczecin, received the second prize for development of the above mentioned system.
NAVDEC (www.navdec.com) is a system of supporting decisions in collision situations at sea.
It is not only maritime navigation working based on any satellite positioning system, but also a system warning about potential collisions, qualifying a situation of an encounter of ships pursuant to the provisions of the navigational rules and providing a navigator with the answer to the question: which course to follow in order to pass other objects at a pre-determined distance.
The system is currently installed on the Wolin ferry and the Fryderyk Chopin tall ship.