Maritime vessels and outdoor highlight display

Commercial and leisure vessels are moving toward integrated glass-bridge consoles, more on-board electronics and, on newer platforms, electric and hybrid propulsion. As a result, the number of displays on a vessel keeps growing: bridge navigation and chartplotter screens, radar and sonar repeaters, engine-room monitoring panels, thruster and winch control stations, AIS and communication terminals, and fuel, bilge or tank level gauges.

These displays live outdoors or in semi-exposed positions. They work under direct solar radiation (up to 1,120 W/m2 in the solar thermal profile our marine customers specify), in salt fog and high humidity, across ambient temperatures from around -20 degC to +55 degC with cover-glass surface temperatures reaching 90 degC in strong sun, and under continuous hull and engine vibration. Crews operate them in daylight, at night, and while wearing polarized sunglasses, and the equipment must survive regular deck wash-down.