April 6, 2009 15:20
I think your concern is unfounded.
AIS units communicate over a serial (RS-232) port that these days is most often converted to USB physical bus but in SW is a 'virtual serial port'. So this is pretty much platform, software and OS independent. All AIS units speak the same language and use the same mechanism (serial port) to talk to the program.
In case of the NASA 'AIS Engine 2' their output spec is:
( NMEA 2000/0183 (38400 Baud) VDM encapsulation string conforming to ITU-1371 )
http://www.yachtbits.com/nasa/ais_engine.php
AIS units communicate over a serial (RS-232) port that these days is most often converted to USB physical bus but in SW is a 'virtual serial port'. So this is pretty much platform, software and OS independent. All AIS units speak the same language and use the same mechanism (serial port) to talk to the program.
In case of the NASA 'AIS Engine 2' their output spec is:
( NMEA 2000/0183 (38400 Baud) VDM encapsulation string conforming to ITU-1371 )
http://www.yachtbits.com/nasa/ais_engine.php