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THE AIDS TO NAVIGATION ( AtoN ) SERVICE IN SPAIN. May 2014. The Spanish Setting. According to Article 149.1(20) of the Spanish Constitution, exclusive competence over coastal lights and marine signals corresponds to the Central State Administration PUERTOS DEL ESTADO
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The Spanish Setting
According to Article 149.1(20) of the Spanish Constitution, exclusive competence over coastal lights and marine signals corresponds to the Central State Administration PUERTOS DEL ESTADO GOVERNMENT AGENCY (Puertos del Estado) National Framework (Royal Decree-Law 2/2011 of 5 September approving the revised text of the State Ports and Merchant Marine Act.)
Puertos del Estado • Government Agency dependent on the Ministry of Public Works National Framework • Responsible for implementing the Government's ports policy • Coordination and control of the Spanish maritime signalling system • 28 port authorities manage 46 general-interest ports (commercial ports)
SAFETY OF MARINE NAVIGATION: DIRECTORATE-GENERAL OF THE MERCHANT MARINE MARINE AIDS TO NAVIGATION: PUERTOS DEL ESTADO GOVERNMENT AGENCY The Spanish Setting SOLAS CHAP. V, Rule 12: Merchant Marine SOLAS CHAP. V, Rule 13: Puertos del Estado (Paragraphs 1 and 2) Navy Hydrographical Institute/D.G. Merchant Marine (Paragraph 3)
AtoN: a tool IALA PdE Aids to Navigation IHO IHM Spheres of Competence Notices VTS Nautical Charts Notices in NAVAREA II Nautical docs. AIS Vessels Navigation Pollution S&R Safety ECDIS IMO D.G. M. Marine (SASEMAR)
Lighthouse Commission (consultative) Puertos del Estado (regulator) Players and Functions Port Authority (inspection) Inspection Other entities: D.G. Coastlines, Fish farming, Obstacles P.A. Coastal Network Ports R.A. Ports Agents providing the service USER
Lighthouse Commission The Commission was set up under the name of the “Standing Lighthouse Commission” on 4 January 1842 as a nation-wide technical organisation to define and establish Spanish AtoNs. It was comprised of engineers holding a civil engineering degree as well as Spanish navy officers, who had the same category. After being totally reformed, today it is governed by the Ministerial Order of 27 February 1996 and called the Lighthouse Commission. Several organisations connected with maritime signalling are represented in it. The Lighthouse Commission
Collegiate body dependent on the Ministry of Public Works (Ministerial Order 27/02/1996) Reason: Implementation of the coordination competence set forth in Act 27/1992 Voting members: Puertos del Estado, Navy Hydrographical Institute, Directorate-General of the Merchant Marine, Directorate-General of Civil Aviation, SASEMAR Non-voting members: ANAVE, Federation of Fishermen's Guilds, Federation of Marinas The Lighthouse Commission
Putting forward the policy and strategy for the entire national maritime signalling and AtoN system. • Planning and setting targets, service and quality levels, technical guidelines, standards, inspection and control. • Performing tasks inherent to the Lighthouse Commission's Deputy Chairmanship and Standing Secretariat. Functions
Promoting training, research, development and technological innovation in the area of AtoNs. Functions • Enhancing the conservation of historical and technical heritage and representing Spain in international forums, organisations and committees dedicated to this matter.
Facilitating harmonisation among different organisations and institutions responsible for providing the national AtoN service and with neighbouring countries in border areas, as well as gathering users' needs and expectations. Functions
AVAILABILITY service Quality Set of management and performance indicators Weighted availability of the AtoN service Ayw = 0.6*A(C1) + 0.3*A(C2) + 0.1*A(C3) C1: Category-I Aids C2: Category-II Aids C3: Category-III Aids REF: IALA Categorisation y: number of years for which availability is calculated Aw: weighted availability A: availability of category
Quality AENOR
Information On The Service
Equipment Web Server Automatic updating Internal / External Client The ATONIS Concept PdE Internal Information (SMS/ other) Mariner /AIS INVENTORY (Database) Maintenance management Incident Communication Management Manual updating Indicators and Quality System OTHER KINDS OF INFORMATION
AtoN INCIDENT MANAGEMENT DIAGRAM Communication of Incident (e-mail) - AtoN Manager - AtoN Inspector (PA/PdE) - Other Stakeholders IHM Puertos del Estado Operator Sasemar Operator ATON Incident Manag. e-mail control error e-mail e-mail Communication confirmation message Communication of Incident (any means) Within 15 days of the incident's communication Yes Puertos del Estado AtoN PORTAL Timón Network Sasemar NAV WARNINGS FTP (Sasemar) Failure Communication of Incident (Internet) Responsible for AtoN No Any Person NOTICE TO MARINERS Updating: - Nautical charts - Courses - List of Lights
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connect http://portalaton.puertos.es/portalAton AtoN PORTAL
National AtoN System
Deployment CONCEPT: Functional signalling unit
(Data Dec. 2013) • Visual aids • 187 lighthouses • 2,059 beacons and port lights • 1,228 floating aids • Fog signals National AtoN System • Radioelectric aids • 27 RACONS • National DGPS Network • 6 area networks • 18 stations • AIS Network • 15 shore base stations • 15 - AIS-AtoN • AtoN Remote Monitoring System (RMS) • Monitoring centres in each PA • Approx. 300 aids monitored RMS
FUNDING • No burden on the State Budget. • Port System's (Ports Authorities) internal funding: • AtoN Duty (AtoN Coastal Network) FUNDING €9,500,000 (Income) • Average annual maintenance cost (Port System): • €9,500,000 (Expenses)
LIGHTHOUSES: 205 Lighthouses Today
Facets • AtoNs • Platform to install new technologies • Heritage Conservation and value for Society Lighthouses Today
Complementary uses for Infrastructures • Lighthouses that can be visited • Non-hotel related uses • Hotel related uses Heritage Conservation and Value for Society
Declaration as an Asset of Cultural Interest: Monument A Strategy for their Conservation
SPANISH DGPS NETWORK 6 REGIONAL NETWORKS 7 REGIONAL CONTROL CENTRES 1 NATIONAL COORDINATION CENTRE 19 TRANSMISSION STATIONS DGPS • TECHNICAL CHARACTERISTICS • Availability 99.92% • Accuracy < 3m • Integrity 5s • Coverage 100 nautical miles • Frequency Bandwidth 285.5-325 KHz INVESTMENT: €5 MILLION FUNDING: PUERTOS DEL ESTADO PORT AUTHORITIES
SPANISH DGPS NETWORK SIX REGIONAL NETWORKS DGPS National Coordination Centre Regional Coordination Centre DGPS Correction Transmission Station
SW AIS Network • Sensors: 12 AIS Base Stations • Estaca • Candelaria • Coruña • Villano • Finisterre • Punta Cabalo • Silleiro • El Picacho • Chipiona • Cádiz • Trafalgar • Algeciras AIS • 6 AIS-AtoN • Islas Sisargas • Isla Sálvora • Isla Ons • Islas Cíes • Port of Huelva landfall buoy • Port of Cadiz landfall buoy • 1 Central Node at Puertos del Estado • 9 Consoles at Port Authorities • ShipLocus Console (Web access)
SW AIS Network: Services Provided • TO SHIPS • 6 Real AtoNs: • 4 lighthouses on islands: Sisargas, Sálvora, Ons and Cíes • 2 landfall buoys: Huelva and Cadiz • SBS: 9 Real and 15 Synthetic AtoNs: 20 lighthouses and 2 leading lines • 3 DGPS corrections with integrity control • Strait of Gibraltar • Finisterre • Estaca de Bares • Weather and Oceanographic Data from 12 SBS • TO PORT AUTHORITIES – PUERTOS DEL ESTADO and other • Traffic information (monitoring, analysis, studies, etc.) • Capacity to control traffic and information to ships (in port area) • AtoN monitoring • 2 buoys / can be scaled up to include rest of Real and Synthetic AtoNs AIS
BASE STATION AIS SPANISH AIS STATIONS AIS
25 RACONS RACONS
Remote monitoring systems – whether or not they are equipped with remote control – contribute to enhancing the service provided to mariners. Their implementation allows for more effective management by optimising available resources and reducing operating costs. For each aid thus monitored there is a remote station which gathers information on the aid's operating status and transmits such information to a control centre, which centralises all data and controls the entire system. A remote monitoring system allows us to know the operating capacity of an aid to navigation through its reliability or the capability of a piece of equipment to perform the function for which it has been designed. It also allows us to know its availability or the probability that a specific aid is operational at any given moment according to the requirements laid down for it. The remote monitoring system designed by Puertos del Estado contemplates the existence of a control centre at each Port Authority equipped with remote control and a central monitoring system at Puertos del Estado, which allows the status of all the signals monitored at each Port Authority to be known. REMOTE MONITORING SYSTEMS Remote Monitoring
REMOTE MONITORING AND CONTROL SYSTEM • SIGNALS MONITORED: 302 • LIGHTHOUSES AND BEACONS: 251 • BUOYS: 51 Remote Monitoring • INVESTMENT: €5.3 MILLION • FUNDING: • PUERTOS DEL ESTADO • PORT AUTHORITIES
REMOTE MONITORING AND CONTROL SYSTEM Remote Monitoring