In today's rapidly digitalizing world, nearly every business, industry, and application relies on display solutions, and the maritime sector is no exception. However, not all displays are created equal, and some fit the marine environment better than others.
With its diverse applications ranging from navigation to monitoring, choosing the right display solution is crucial. This blog explores essential considerations for selecting marine displays, featuring a case study of Electric Marine Support (EMS) and their use of Beetronics displays to modernize their fleet.
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Understanding the Marine Market
The marine market encompasses a diverse range of industries and activities related to the sea, including commercial shipping, offshore oil and gas, fishing, maritime tourism, and naval defense. As one of the oldest and most vital sectors of the global economy, it significantly impacts international trade, transportation, and resource extraction, with an estimated annual turnover of several trillion dollars.
Despite the variety of industries in the marine market, they share key challenges that must be considered when selecting a display. These include long-term reliability, excellent readability in both bright and dim conditions, dimmable backlight brightness, wide input voltage support, low power consumption, and rugged build quality to withstand shocks and near-constant vibrations.
Electric Marine Support (EMS) provides a stellar example of overcoming these challenges with display solutions tailored to marine users. Through the procurement and deployment process at EMS, we demonstrate how Beetronics monitors and touchscreens play a crucial role in their operations.
Exploring Key Features for Marine Displays with EMS
EMS is a leading marine electrical engineering company with over 20 years of experience, serves a broad range of vessels, from small yachts to large commercial ships. Monitors and touchscreens play an integral role in the various onboard systems, including navigation, monitoring, and entertainment, which EMS creates and maintains. We collaborated to determine the optimal display solutions and features for their maritime applications, ensuring a seamless and intuitive user experience for bridge personnel.
1. Durability and Reliability
The displays used by EMS are seamlessly integrated into their bridge solutions, providing the helmsman or captain with direct visibility into navigation, control systems, the engine room, and CCTV. It is crucial that these displays deliver guaranteed continuous performance regardless of the environment and application.
EMS uses a metal display lineup designed for continuous use, capable of withstanding high humidity, intense vibrations, and significant temperature variations. These displays are also corrosion, water, and dust-resistant, ensuring years of reliable operation in any maritime setting.
2. Perfect Readability
Working at sea presents unique challenges when it comes to visibility. EMS knows firsthand the importance of visibility in marine environments, as their application needs to reliably display crucial information at all times, adapting to different lighting conditions, whether early morning, midday, or in the dark of night.
The Beetronics displays are designed to offer excellent readability in any condition, be it harsh sunlight or dim evenings. The displays exclusively use IPS panels in 16:9, 4:3 and 5:4 aspect ratios with wide viewing angles, matte, anti-glare panels, and a dimmable backlight, which can be adjusted via the operating buttons, remote controls, or potentiometers to set brightness based on ambient light and preference.
3. Ease of Integration
On the EMS-designed bridge, displays are seamlessly integrated with a flat finish, using various sizes and aspect ratios. The metal product line features a uniform architecture with identical designs across different sizes, utilizing the same installation accessories and mounting options.
These displays require no ventilation, allowing them to be installed in tight spaces while ensuring a sleek, modern, and uniform finish, regardless of the chosen display combinations.
4. Energy Efficiency and Variable Input Voltage
Given the limited power resources on ships and the proprietary systems for power delivery, energy efficiency is a priority for EMS clients. Therefore, all displays utilize an energy-efficient PCB board with low power consumption and support a wide input voltage range from 9 to 33 volts. This flexibility allows them to be connected directly to mains power, 12V, or 24V systems, freeing up additional power for other uses.
Our collaboration with EMS has led to several fantastic bridge setups, the results of which are showcased in the images throughout this blog. Combining EMS's years of expertise and knowledge in the maritime sector with Beetronics' display solutions featuring maritime-specific product features and characteristics creates a solid foundation for a long-term partnership. This enables both complete new builds and renovations to modernize ships and prepare them for the future.
“We chose to use the Beetronics displays for their easy mounting options, variable input voltage, and versatile dimming capabilities. Our installers find them quick and easy to install, and the long-term availability ensures we have access to the same displays we've become accustomed to.”
— Pim, Service Coordinator, Electric Marine Support
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