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You can combine a WiFi AIS unit as well to bring in additional NMEA data like wind, depth, speed, and AIS target information to the TZ iBoat display.

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The TZ iBoat app on the iPad supports full cartography, routing, waypoints, navigation, etc and can overlay the radar data it receives from the FirstWatch unit. The Furuno FirstWatch radar is a standalone radar device that you connect to via WiFi.

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Solution 1 (TZ iBoat): A combination fo the TZ iBoat AppВ for iPad, plus the Furuno Firstwatch DRS4W Wireless radar. LetвЂ™s say you want to use your iPad as a full Navigation system and you want radar functionality. But letвЂ™s go through the options from the computing device perspective as a baseline. Well hereвЂ™s where it gets interesting, and a bit complex.

Furuno Navnet MFD => Furuno DRSXX Radars (of which there are quite a few)Д«ut what if you want to do something a bit non-standard, maybe even forgo a traditional chartplotter.

Simrad NSS or B&G Zeus MFD => Simrad/B&G Halo20, 20+, 24.

Garmin GPSMAP MFD => Garmin Fantom, HD, or xHD Radar.

Raymarine Axiom MFD => Raymarine Quantum2 or Magnum Radar.

Examples of latest combinations of MFDs and Radars: But in addition to a myriad of connector types used for the ethernet cables in marine networks, the data packets flowing over those cables are proprietary to the brand as well.ДЄll that to say that if you want a radar and you want it to work with your favorite MFD/Chartplotter, you are automatically going to have to buy the radar from the same brand as your MFD. Modern marine radars use ethernet technology (same physical wiring and basic technology as a computer network in an office). In addition, old analog radars connected to the MFD display using proprietary connections with many conductors. Raymarine radars are only designed to work with Raymarine MFDs, Garmin radars with Garmin GPSMAP, etc displays, Furuno radars with Furuno displays, and Navico/B&G/Simrad/Lowrance radars with any of those 4 (since they are all pretty much the same anyway).

Below is an overview of various combinations of radars and compatible computing/navigation devices.ДЇirst, at a high level, Radar is generally one of the few things on a boat that is brand name proprietary.

And one of the common questions is what sort of radar they should get that will work with their chartplotter(MFD), or tablet, or OpenCPN, or TimeZero, or a Raspberry Pi.

Many of my discussions with customers come around to discussing marine navigation and electronics since these are linked in some ways to communications projects.

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