The service
Ocean Tracking is the official supplier of tracking beacons for the 60 boats in the 2024 Cap Martinique Transatlantic Race
Study of needs and proposal adapted to the tracking of an offshore race of more than 20 days
Type of beacons selected: the SK50 offering tracking on the GSM network close to the coast and Iridium as soon as the beacon is offshore.
Live positioning every second during the arrival phase in the bay of Fort de France.
Installation and testing
- Official distribution of beacons by the race organizer
- Installation by the organizer and the technical teams of the teams
- Presence the week before the departure of an Ocean Tracking technician
- Tests carried out the week before departure in conjunction with the Géovoile calculation manager in charge of mapping
- Installation by the skippers of the Cap Martinique and verification of the fixing of the trackers by Ocean Tracking
- assistance: 24/24 hours
The specificities
The SK50 bailises which connect in 2G/4G/Iridium are entirely dedicated to the monitoring of boats for the reporting of positions on the Internet map.
The positioning frequencies of the SK50 main beacon are adapted to the departure, arrival and offshore phases thanks to their transmission capacity on the GSM network close to the coast and automatic switch to Iridium upon distance and loss of the GSM network.
- Cartography: see the Cap Martinique website
- Frequency of the start phase: 5 mins for the first 4 hours
- Arrival phase frequency: every second
- Frequency offshore: every 30 minutes for race direction
Data flows
Provision of Géovoile in charge of mapping the APIs necessary for data recovery.
Coordinates - Positioning time - Battery charge