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Every contact, where it actually is.

Amara is a see-through headset worn by the officer on watch. It reads the radar, AIS, chart and GPS feeds already fitted to your vessel and draws every contact around you as a label over the sea, at its true bearing.

The ones that transmit arrive with a name. The ones that do not arrive as unknown — detected on radar, never identified, but held in the picture with range and closest point of approach instead of not being there at all. Amara supplements the watch. It is not type approved and does not replace radar, ECDIS or the lookout — the full list of what it does not do is on this page rather than in the small print.

Indian Navy
In service on ships
Existing feeds
Already fitted
Receive-only
Transmits nothing
What the officer sees

Look at a vessel to open it.

Change the visibility and watch what happens to the overlay — the answer is nothing, and that is the entire argument for putting it head-up.

Good visibility. The officer can see the traffic and still has to correlate it with radar and chart.

EEZ BOUNDARY040050060070080090100110HDG 072°MV KESTREL4.67 NMUNKNOWN1.73 NMMSC ODESSA6.05 NMOCEAN PEARL8.02 NM

Swipe the view sideways, or pick a contact below.

MSC ODESSA

Risk — act now11 200 m · 6.05 NM · true 068° · relative 356° port
Identity
  • MMSI636 019 845
  • IMO9702348
  • Call signD5AB7
  • TypeContainer ship
Motion
  • Speed over ground15.6 kn
  • Heading251°
  • Course over ground252°
Position & relative
  • Latitude18° 49.8′ N
  • Longitude072° 36.9′ E
  • Range11 200 m / 6.05 NM
  • Relative bearing356° port
  • True bearing068°
Encounter
  • Closest point of approach0.08 NM
  • Time to CPA11 min 20 s
  • EncounterHead-on — both alter to starboard

Representative data on a simulated passage, shown to illustrate the readout. On the bridge the officer opens this by looking at the vessel — hands stay on the conn, eyes stay on the water.

What it takes off the officer

The work that happens between the screens.

Nothing on a modern bridge is missing information. What is missing is the person who has time to assemble it. Amara does the assembling and puts the result where the officer is already looking. In Indian coastal approaches the non-transmitting contact is not an edge case. It is a large part of the traffic, and it is the part a purely AIS-driven picture leaves out.

Detected, but never identified

A vessel carrying no transponder is a radar return and nothing else. Amara puts that return on the water at its true bearing, marked unknown, with range and closest point of approach — instead of leaving it as a blip to be reconciled off a separate screen.

Three pictures, one head

A single officer combining radar, AIS and chart in their head — at exactly the moment workload peaks: congested water, night, poor visibility.

Head-down time

Every second spent looking down at a console is a second of lost awareness of the water ahead. Amara keeps the picture in the officer's line of sight.

Small bridge teams

On a patrol vessel or a lean-manned merchant ship, the same person is conning, watching and judging an approach. The correlation work lands on one person.

Identity that does not add up

Broadcast identity conflicting with what the sensors observe is flagged, rather than taken at face value.

Where the line actually falls

Boundaries drawn into the view over the water, rather than judged against a chart on a separate screen.

How it is wired

Three parts, all on board.

Amara is a layer over your existing sensors, not a new sensor. The chain starts and ends on the vessel.

On the vessel

Everything inside this boundary runs on board. Receive-only — Amara transmits nothing and needs no internet.

No public API · no egress

  1. 01
    Already fitted

    Your existing feeds

    Amara reads what the vessel already has. None of this is equipment we sell you.

    • RadarContacts with no transponder
    • AISCooperating traffic, identity
    • Satellite AISBeyond terrestrial range
    • GPS / NavICOwn position and motion
    • Chart dataBoundaries and depths
    • ADS-BAircraft in the picture
  2. 02
    The fitting

    A PC on board

    One machine receiving the feeds resolves them into a single contact picture — not five overlays of the same traffic.

    • Single contact pictureOne vessel per real vessel
    • Range and bearingComputed from the feeds
    • Closest point of approachOn each fused contact
    • COLREGs encounter typeThe encounter, named

    This is an installation, not a download. If the vessel cannot supply a PC on the feeds, that is the first thing to solve.

  3. 03
    The watch

    The headset on the bridge

    A see-through visor. The sea stays fully visible; the picture is drawn on top of it at the true bearing of each contact.

    • See-through visorOver local Wi-Fi
    • True bearing overlayDrawn where the contact is
    • Look to open detailEyes stay on the vessel
    • Hands stay freeFor the conn, not a console

    Hands stay free for the conn. Eyes stay on the water rather than on a console.

Who feels this problem

The officer uses it. You own the consequence.

If your near-miss reports cluster at night and in traffic, you already know the shape of this problem. Find yourself below and we will talk about your class of vessel rather than about headsets.

  • Commercial ship operators

    Marine Superintendent · Fleet Manager · Technical Manager · HSEQ · DPA

    Near-miss and collision risk sits on your desk. Lean-manned bridges make it worse, and the officer carries the correlation work alone.

  • Offshore and energy support

    Marine Operations Manager · Vessel Superintendent · OIM

    Congested fields and close-quarters work, where the consequence of a misjudged approach is measured in more than a near-miss report.

  • Pilotage

    Chief Pilot · Harbour Master · Pilotage Director

    A pilot boards an unfamiliar bridge and has to build the picture in minutes. A headset the pilot brings with them fits that unusually well.

  • Tug and workboat operators

    Operations Manager · Fleet Manager

    Dense harbour traffic, small crews and constant close-quarters manoeuvring — the encounter is always developing faster than a console allows.

  • Maritime training

    Principal · Head of Simulation · Nautical Studies lead

    Shows a cadet what the officer should be attending to, and when — and gives the instructor a record of what the trainee was not attending to.

  • Marine systems integrators

    Product Manager · Head of Business Development · CTO

    You already sell into bridges. Amara is a layer over feeds you have integrated many times before.

Read this before you book anything

What Amara does not do.

Every one of these will come up on the first call. You may as well have them now, and decide whether it is worth the call at all.

  • 01

    It is not type approved

    Amara supplements the watch. It does not replace radar, ECDIS or the lookout, and it is not a substitute for any of them under any regulation.

  • 02

    It does not replace bridge equipment

    It reads the feeds already fitted. If your vessel does not have the feed, Amara cannot invent it — confirm the specific fit with our technical team rather than assuming it.

  • 03

    It is a fitting, not a download

    It requires a PC or server on the vessel receiving the feeds. Factor that into how you plan a trial: someone has to be on board for it.

  • 04

    It does no route planning or reporting

    No voyage optimisation, no compliance reporting, no transmission of any kind. It is a situational-awareness layer for the person on watch, and nothing else.

  • 05

    There is no commercial reference yet

    Amara is in service on Indian Navy ships. That is the deployment we have, and we will not imply a commercial fleet we do not. The upside of arriving this early is real: an early commercial operator gets to shape what the product becomes.

What a trial actually involves

Two days on board, then a real passage.

  • Two headsetsOne for the officer on watch, one for whoever is looking over their shoulder.
  • One Wi-Fi routerLocal only. Nothing leaves the vessel and no internet is required.
  • A PC receiving the feedsThe one thing we need from you. If the vessel can supply it, the rest is ours.
  • Two days to install and trainThen a period of use on a real passage, which is the only honest test of a head-up display.
What arrives in the case
HeadsetHeadset× 2 · WE SUPPLYWi-Fi router× 1 · WE SUPPLY · LOCAL ONLYPC on the feeds× 1 · YOU SUPPLY

Amara is in service on Indian Navy ships. The trial fit is the same shape on a merchant bridge, a pilot boat or a tug.

This is for you

Tell us about your bridges, not about headsets.

  • Coastal approaches thick with small craft carrying no AIS
  • Contacts radar can detect but nothing can put a name to
  • One officer correlating radar, AIS and chart in their head
  • A bridge team that has been getting smaller for a decade

Vessel class, where you trade, and what your near-miss reports say about time of day. That is a fifteen-minute conversation and it is enough for both of us to know whether a trial is worth anyone's two days.

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