Headquarters San Diego, U.S. | Area served Worldwide | |
Industry Maritime Shipping Industry Founder Dean Rosenberg and Jim Drewett Website www.portvision.com/index.aspx | ||
PortVision is a web service that allows maritime shipping and transportation companies to track commercial vessel traffic, including real-time vessel locations and up to five years of historical data.
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History
The PortVision vessel-tracking service was created in 2006 by Airsis, a San Diego-based company formed in 2004 from the merger of Abaris Technologies, founded by Dean Rosenberg, and Applied Digital Security Inc., founded by Jim Drewett. Portvision uses the Automatic Identification System (AIS), a technology and communication protocol that adopted by the International Maritime Organization as an international standard for ship-to-ship, ship-to-shore and shore-to-ship communication of navigation information.The service provides oil companies, marine terminal operators, fleet owners/operators and other maritime users with information about commercial vessel activities within ports and inland waterways. The service was developed after TOTAL Petrochemical and three other refineries in the Beaumont-Port Arthur, Texas, area asked Airsis to develop a more elaborate, ship-tracking version of an on-line mapping system that the company had designed for the Port of Houston. Current users include international ports like the Port of New Orleans as well as large inland ports in the US.
Development and Uses
In 2010, the firm introduced its TerminalSmart product, which gives terminal operators access to PortVision’s real-time and historical AIS database, t. In November 2011, the firm added a Dock Management System module that enables oil companies to automate terminal processes, integrate communications, create event alerts, and manage on-water incidents and events. In 2011, the company also introduced a Fleet Management System module. By 2011, the service was processing 40 million vessel positions a day, had archived over 15 billion arrival, departure, and vessel movement records since its inception and was operating in most major U.S. ports/regions and over 200 international regions. That year, the company received the 2011 Plimsoll Award for Innovation for its maritime product lines.
Use in Maritime Incidents
During the Deepwater Horizon incident in 2010, the service was used by the response team to monitor up to 5,050 sea vessels, 30,800 personnel, and several dozen aircraft at a time. It is also commonly used in dispute resolution over maritime incidents. During the 2010 Deepwater Horizon incident, Today AIS technology is mandated by international law in order to prevent maritime collisions.