1. Technical Report 7th V-RMTC & T-RMN Experts’ Reunion
Annual V-RMTC & T-RMN Meeting
Technical Report
Lt.Cdr. Sergio CIANNAMEA
Italian Navy Communications & Informatics Centre
Head, Command and Intelligence Systems Division
C4ISR Systems Project Officer
Rome, IT 29 Nov - 1 Dec 2011

2. Agenda What SMART is Background Main Capabilities Enhanced Features
Way Ahead
V-RMTC & T-RMN Delivery Planning

3. What SMART is
SMART (Service-oriented infrastructure for MARitime Traffic tracking) increment 2:
is the Italian Navy SOA Information System for the:
acquisition,
elaboration, and
redistribution,
of the maritime traffic information, acquired from a number of heterogeneous data sources.
is taking over where Virtual-Regional Maritime Traffic Centre (V-RMTC), Trans-Regional Maritime Network (T-RMN) and SMART increment 1 systems have left off in providing the next spiral evolutionary step for the Italian Navy Maritime Situational Awareness (MSA)/ Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) systems:
provides access to a number of different applications through a web portal.

4. Background
Goals:
seek new solutions to make V-RMTC more affective for the Communities;
allow the automatic sharing of information data and services with (but not only) the T-RMN partners’ federated systems;
develop a new kit of standard and tools, useful also for other initiatives: either National (SIIMS) and International (EU MARSUR and EU BLUEMASSMED).

5. Background Objectives: Spiral evolution;
Portfolio of integrated web based solutions;
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) based technology;
OpenSource software;
Share MSA data, gather from various sources and forms.

6. Background V-RMTC T-RMN AIS RADARS IMAGES Central Module
Logical architecture:
V-RMTC
WMC
T-RMN
AIS
RADARS
IMAGES
Central Module
Front End Processor
SOA systems …
Web Portal
GIS application
Web Client

7. Main Capabilities (1/2)
SMART provides the users with the following functionalities:
User rights and access control management
this feature provides the functionality for creating specific profiles and associate users
to them
Collaboration Tools
Users can exchange instant messages (IM) and start discussion threads under
dedicated forums
Document and Workflow Management
Users can access documentation (upload/download) according to different profiles

8. Main Capabilities (2/2) Data acquisition and redistribution
the system can acquire and redistribute data according to a number of different
application protocols.
System Chart
starting from the acquired data, the system provides the ability to visualize the
related RMP.
Statistics
the system provides details on the received and redistributed data as well as the
mean for delving into the details of the maritime traffic domain.
Smart Agents and Watchdogs
these are pre-set rules according to which the system reacts with predetermined
actions/alerts.

9. Enhanced Features (1/3)
Ability to deal and manage with a number of different application protocols both in input and in output
The following Input/Output formats can be managed:
AIS series messages (only Input);
OTH Gold;
XCTC;
Locator;
SISTRAM.
They can be acquired/redistributed via:
Web-services;
Socket (TCP/IP);
RS232 (serial port); .

10. Enhanced Features (2/3) Ability to deal with data ambiguity
SMART provides a static and semi-static correlation of input data;
As a by-product of the synchronization process, the system evidences any incongruous result highlighting the related reasons;
Provides the user with the tools to resolve ambiguities also by means of external references databases (e.g.: Lloyd’s Fairplay®, Jane’s®, etc.).

11. Enhanced Features (3/3)
The use of Google Earth® as an alternative way to the native GIS capabilities
SMART implements the capability of displaying RMP on Google Earth® as an alternative option to the native system chart
SMART also provides advanced features for data display and playback

12. Way Ahead
Finalization of the SMART interfaces in support to the EU MARSUR (currently moving from its test phase to the live) and the EU BLUEMASSMED Communities .
Development of:
a higher number of smart agents according to the European Union operational requirements.
algorithms for achieving data correlation also under a cinematic perspective.
a Cross-Domain structure for achieving the capability to operate within classified and unclassified environments
trying to harmonize criteria notification type and information exchange
requirements, within the different Communities (Nationally, Regionally, Globally)

13. V-RMTC & T-RMN delivery planning
If agreed, iaw the last Meeting OWG recommendations, we are ready to:
& 2Q:
Provide the logon accounts for the SMART test phase on the V-RMTC Model 1 platform (
Open for all the Community, on voluntary bases.
Start the sharing data trials (via the web portal or the new web services, to enhance the automatic data exchange).
Open for all the Community, on voluntary bases; first of all, it should be great to start tests with the T-RMN Nations. Q:
Validate the new platform.
SMART WMC system will be reached at the V-RMTC URL (

14. Q & A