Communication without limits

Products29. October 2020 by Hannes Büttner - Reading Time 1 min.

Various devices are installed in caravans and yachts, and are controlled via an on-board management system, like PowerPlex®. In addition to lighting, battery charging and tank levels, integrating air conditioning, heating and multimedia systems is becoming more important. This can easily and safely be accomplished via gateways.

PowerPlex® on-board management system

At a customer’s request, the PowerPlex® was to control a comprehensive PowerPlex® system structure with multimedia system that can be operated via display and MFD multimedia system on a yacht including radio, TV, USB and Bluetooth. The music settings needed to be individually adjusted via displays in the owner and guest cabins. Simultaneously these settings also needed to be controlled via a multifunctional display (MFD) in the cockpit - individually for each cabin and synchronously on all music devices on board.

The necessary functionality was provided with two multimedia amplifiers, which are controlled via CAN bus. The PowerPlex® gateway facilitates the mutual information transfer and serves as »translator« between the multimedia CAN and the PowerPlex® CAN. The PowerPlex® webserver allows control via the MFD, and provides the graphical user interface for the MFD and is directly connected to the PowerPlex® system. In this way, not only the multimedia system is controlled and monitored via the MFD, but also all other load circuits connected to the PowerPlex®.

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