Riviera Boats - R Marine, Coomera QLD Australia

NMEA2000 Data Protocol - continued from Boat Electronics (See below for Riviera's latest boats!)

"Basically you can hook any NMEA2000 compliant device and send or receive data through it through the one network," he said. "It enables communication between devices to be significantly enhanced - it's building a network within your boat - an information display super highway." He said many manufacturers of marine electronics have now released products using NMEA2000 as their standard communication protocol because it allows simple interfacing between electronics such as Raymarine G series and Furuno NN3D. "The company that is most advanced with interface or gateway products is Maretron," he said. "Maretron manufacture a wide range of products to interconnect with popular NMEA2000 compatible multi function displays (MFD's), which enable MFD's to display data over and above the normal Charting / Sounder / Radar functions."

Interfaces currently available from Maretron are;

- Ultrasonic wind and weather station (no moving parts)
- Solid state compass (no moving parts)
- NMEA2000 GPS antenna
- NMEA2000 Depth / Speed transducers
- J1939 (engine company protocol) to NMEA2000 interface to display engine data on a MFD
- NMEA2000 tank level interface
- NMEA2000 rudder angle interface
- NMEA2000 AC current interface
- NMEA2000 DC current interface

"The Maretron range of interfaces can take almost any analogue signal and convert it to NMEA2000 to display on a NMEA2000 compatible MFD or their own all in one multi colour digital display the Maretron DSM250," said Errol. "All the NMEA2000 devices are connected into the backbone via a tee piece with a "spur" cable running to the NMEA2000 device and display. "You can imagine in the not to distant future, a "glass bridge", which is a line of flat screens that display informational data, without engine instrumentation as the engines, charting, sounder, and radar data will all be on two or three large displays." For more information contact R Electronics on 07 5561 7900 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Below is a typical NMEA2000 install. Back to Marine Electronics

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