A Mercury box is a small piece of hardware that connects your vessel's existing GPS to your vessel's existing internet connection to securely send your vessel's positions directly to MariTrace.

We can send one directly to your vessel and your engineer should be able to install it. If they have any difficulty then we can offer telephone support. If you would rather have one of our engineers visit the vessel and perform the installation, then this can be arranged.

They are very easy to install. As long as you know where your vessel's GPS NMEA connection is, and where the router is, then we're happy. Aside from that, all you need is power. We can power the device from a 12V or 24V connection, or via a standard power socket. So - practically no disruption. In ideal scenarios, the device can be installed in 15-30 mins.

Absolutely not. Mercury is there to enhance your AIS. AIS is mandatory under SOLAS and it should not be switched off or disabled at any time other than for very specific safety and security reasons. However, if your vessel has switched off AIS for those specific reasons, Mercury will still provide live positions of your vessel. Additionally, AIS was never designed for remotely tracking vessels. Therefore it is prone to being unreliable when used that way. Tracking with Mercury is reliable, regardless of what's going on with AIS. Even if AIS is off, has been disconnected, is malfunctioning, is transmitting on the wrong MMSI.....etc. With Mercury, you will still receive your positions.

The default is to send a position once per minute to MariTrace, however we can configure the device to send at any rate up to once per second.

We use the vessel's existing internet connectivity to securely send positions to MariTrace. This data is encrypted and cannot be seen by anyone else.

Either.

We can help you get Starlink installed at no cost to you for the hardware. You just pay for the data you consume.

Absolutely not. The data is sent encrypted to our servers. Thereafter it is visible in the MariTrace interface to you only, or other MariTrace users you choose to share the data with.

Absolutely. As long as they have a MariTrace account, you can share you vessel's positions with them, or they with you. You can share with multiple people and have complete control over who sees those positions, and for how long. Typically our users want to share vessel positions with their CSO, security team, insurer, flag state, charterer, owner, or even friends and family.

The boxes are intelligent and know when they're offline. From that moment, they start to cache the positions and when they detect that the internet connection has been resumed, will send any missing data so any gaps are filled in.

That's not a problem. We have an API available so you can get the data directly and use in your own platform.

As long as that asset has NMEA / GPS, and power, and an internet connection then a standard Mercury box will work. However, even if one of the above is not available, then we can still help. Get in touch and we can explain more.