SEAWatcher vs Ankoradar

In the framework of the Bilateral Agreement between the Italian Ministry for Environment, Land and Sea Protection (IMELS) and UN Environment/Mediterranean Action Plan for the biennium 2018-2019 INFO/RAC has received the mandate to develop a user-friendly platform for data management and smartphone application to collect the Marine Litter data. The application, which will be integrated in the InfoMAP system, aims to acquire from citizens, professional organizations and civil associations geographical data on "MARINE LITTER" (IMAP Ecological Objective EO10 and Descriptor 10 of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive) through the development of a multilingual APP (English, French and Italian) for the collection of georeferenced information. The overall idea has been that of creating an application that allows in the next future INFO/RAC to link also other topics, providing a mobile app upgradable, where the user can select a topic and enter in a specific form and activate a specific interface for sending data to the UNEP/MAP system.

Ankoradar is for helping boats commanders to anchor without concerns. The app uses commercial trackers, available online, to check that the anchor doesn’t drag while the boat is anchored. There is many app on the market able to watch the boat position but no one is able to really track the anchor. How does it work:- the app allows users registering the tracker on our tracking platform. After the logging-in the the user is able to draw a small fence to keep tab the anchor position. If the anchor move , out of the fence, the app alarm warns the commander that the situation is getting dangerous because the anchor is dragging.