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Unitgate VMS Environment

Unitgate VMS is a complete Regulatory Vessel Monitoring System designed to meet the strict requirements of fisheries authorities worldwide. Acting as an intelligent bridge between onboard VMS transponders and national monitoring centers, the Unitgate VMS Edge Environment ensures seamless, secure, and real-time data exchange across all communication technologi


Our platform transforms and routes data between binary transponder protocols and standardized API interfaces such as NAF, UVMS, VCatch, and FLUX, enabling full compatibility with existing fisheries systems and regional data gateways.

Unitgate VMS supports any satellite network - including Iridium SBD, Inmarsat Mini-C, and Inmarsat IDP-as well as over 200 LTE / 4G tracking formats. This flexibility allows authorities to monitor fleets of all sizes, from small coastal vessels to large ocean-going trawlers, within a single unified environment.

We also offer a full range of Unitgate VMS transponders, available as:

- Satellite models (Iridium-based) for global coverage, and
- 4G / LTE mobile models for near-shore connectivity.
- Hybrid solutions across Satellite, Mobie or even Starlink

Combined, these create our Hybrid VMS Transponder, ensuring continuous reporting while minimizing airtime costs.

Within the Unitgate VMS environment, users gain transparent access to the full data stream in and out of each transponder - including location data, electronic logbooks, and two-way messaging. The system handles real-time encoding and decoding, offers interactive map visualizations with overlays and geofencing, and includes intelligent routing that can split or convert data into multiple formats - for example, sending positional reports to one destination and e-logs to another.

Real Time Inmarsat Billing

We process any Inmarsat Traffic CDR's in real time - when a call or a data session hit a marker or is ending then will a satellite network operator traffic CDR be produced - This CDR file are processed instantly and get mediated, rated as well as validated linked to defined spending triggers or usage triggers. We was the first company to implement the full Inmarsat billing process - starting with Inmarsat traditional I3 services like Fleet, Mini M, Inmarsat C, then Inmarsat I4 Services across BGAN, FBB, SBB, LINK, GSPS, M2M with more than thousind different products - direct integration with Inmarsat Redknee / Singleview prepaid environment offering realtime topup, balance validation and similar. Later was Inmarsat GX implemented - We did win the implementation for the first Inmarsat GX gateway project - GX don't directly generate traffic CDR's so we generate these based on collected IDirect metrics every 5 minutes and do rate all GX voice calls where needed.

On Inmarsat are our setup directly integrated to the many API interfaces used across:

Inmarsat I4
BGAN, GSPS, LINK Services, FBB Services, SBB Services, M2M Services, PTT Services

Inmarsat I5 with GX
Government GX, Enterprice GX/G2X Services, Aero Business JX, Aero Commercial GX, Land LX, Maritime FX Services

Inmarsat IDP
Satellite IoT applications, Terminal provisioning - mailbox, Messaging integration and charging

The deep integration mean this isn't just a plain Inmarsat billing platform but a complete satellte business environment that integrate across provisioning, monitoring and billing allowing automated suspend based on usage, offer a single environment across any part of the business - basically a game changer for operating satellite services.

The last implemented Inmarsat service setup across provisioning, billing as will as intelligent message flow is on IDP that offer fishing vessel tracking and similar. If it is an Inmarsat service then is if fully implemented.

Maritime VMS Transponders

Even the most complicated Inmarsat billing capabilities are fully integrated. Some of the Key Billing Functionalities:

- Highly Proven Redundant & Billing Infrastructure that scale unlimited
- Secure Billing that is unmatchable in the industry - ISO27001 military grade
- Mediate, Rate, Invoice any satellite CDR format in the current industry
- Uniform and Convergent Billing all into a single invoice
- Billing integrated with real time Usage/Spending Monitoring
- Dynamic collector, mediator, rating running 24/7 in real time
- Subscription Fees (backward, forward, standard, floating, prorated..)
- Billing groups - SCAP, Vessel Groups, Print Groups, Tagging..
- Invoice Builder - many standard formats / languages..
- Multi Language / Multi currency - end to end or calculated on invoices
- Rating plans with drag & drop - Easy management
- Multi Level rating in a single loop - Cost, Reseller, End User
- Integrated Account Receivable (AR) that ensure correct credit flow
- Prepaid billing fully integrated across Iridium, Inmarsat, Thuraya..
- Manual price and service capabilities incl. credit node handling
- Real time API to integrated customer real time CDR access
- Increment, min usage, unit billing, time based billing, usage billing..
- Intelligent upgrade/downgrade billing rules..
- Billing across migration,upgrade/downgrade, ETF billing, minimum period
- Advanced customer self care across provisioning, billing and monitoring
- Implement new CDR formats using drag & drop wizard
- Lots of Financial API's integrated - Economics, Navision, SAP, BSCS
- Taxation integration, Currency API's ECB, Credit Rating lookup...
- Revenue Assurance (RA), Credit Risk reporting, SAP Crystal Reports..
- More than 350 notification templates provided in multi language

Rate across manmy levels in a single bill run - calculate cost price, reseller / partner price, company / end user price in a single parsing, allowing easy and simple supplier invoice matching, and generating single invoices across satellite services.
Our platform integrate directly with any external satellite reseller or satellite network operator allowing a single satellite service environment - internally as well as external through advanced serf care environments.

Inmarsat Traffic CDR collection can be directly from Inmarsat network where traffic CDR's are delivered in a long range of different formats linked to given services - or it can be from Stratos (Now Inmarsat) the main difference will be that CDR delivery from Directly from Inmarsat is in real time - where Traffic CDRs from Stratos is delivered periodically and offer no direct API integration for provisioning and prepaid functionality.

Scalable and Robust Satellite Billing

Our Satellite Business Environment is build on the latest software technologies and have been implemented to offer Scalability, Redundancy as well as a Military grade Security across all implemented elements - the offered environment provide basically all needed in a succesful satellite operator setup ascoss provisioning, convergent billing, real-time traffic monitoring, data POP environment in New York, Amsterdam or Hong Kong as well as basically any satellite services like tracking, remote terminal management, integrated M2M management, WAN acceleration ...

Redundant frontend nodes provide advanced - and easy to use interfaces for operator as well as self care for end customers - redundant backend nodes handle all the key functionality and is directly integrated with all the major satellite providers on the market like Inmarsat, Iridium, Intelsat, Eutelsat, Thuraya ... - Database environment is implemented in a Galara Cluser with three nodes that all are fully encrypted in-rest as well as in-transit to protect from Ransomware issues - All implemented in highly secure setup with ISO27001, SOC1, SOC2, SOC3 and PCI certifications.

Satellite Billing made Intelligent

Satellite billing can normally be a really complicated setup especially when gathering satellite billing data from many sources - we have been in the business from the beginning and have all the needed technical knowledge and understanding in delivering a scalable and solid billing environment. A billing platform that over the last 20 years have been in a constant evoilution now offering a rock solid environment that combine advanced functionality with a highly adaptive and user friendly interfacing, that offer operator an easy way to managing basiucally any satellite service offering as well as offering the operators customers unmatched self care in a multi level setup where the operator manage all permissions across the many levels. it is divided into three different main blocks to ensure highest possible security, unmatched degree of user friendly interfaces.

Frontend Environment offer easy and simple day to day management for operator and for customers, operator dashboard offer advanced management for operator super users, building rating plans with drag & drop, adding new products through wizards, building new CDR formats using drag & drop, and the final block is our backend system that offer connectivity to the other modules through highly secure API implementations. All parts can be running in redundant mode, all connectivity is stateless allowing the platform to scale unlimitted on top of our cluster database environment that operate in master-master-master replicated mode.

Collect, Mediate, Rate, Invoice...

Billing cover several workflow, across collecting traffic data, mediating collected data, apply rating, maintain allowance, generate fees linked to activation, subscription, resume, hibernate, upgrade, downgrade, disconnect, extra services, installation, value added fees and similar.
Collecting external CDR files can be done using sftp/ftp/email/internal dropzone/API collector, when a file is collected will it be mediated into our internal event based format - new CDR file formats can be implemented using our mediation wizard that make it extremly easy adding new formats, by standard will almost all standard CDR formats be fully supported already, when mediation is performed will our rating part be processing collected data in real time, adding minimum usage, minimum increment, adjust allowance across usage allowance or spending allowance, any form for product are fully suported across postpaid, prepaid, group packages as well as large pool groups.

When rating have been applied can invoices be generated at any stage, as long as the billing period is open then will generated invoices be marked with draft across the invoice to indicate it is in draft mode, if operator want to close and generate a single operator or print group then is this fully supported.

Invoices are generated based on invoice templates that control the layout of a given invoice, this mean the operator can have multiple invoice layout and formats as well as invoices in specific languages, generated invoices can be send to print, as email to user, as well as it can be made acailable in the frontend interface, it is also possible to generate invoice reports that can contain all charging and traffic details linked to a given invoice. Split invoicing are fully supported - allowing the operator to make one invoice for airtime, one for hardware, one for installation and one for services.Bo.

Solid and proven Billing Infrastructure

We are operating some of the worlds largest satellite installations that have more than 70 servers in a single operator setup - meaning we have a proven a solid knowledge in building and operating large replicated database environments with integrated backup and recovery procedures, we have over the years been constantly improving our architecture, hardware, operating systems, API installations that ensure a solid environment from the beginning.

A Single Billing Environment

Our Satelitte Business Environment is basically fully integrated into any major satellite operator on the market, which mean Iridium provisioning, billing and monitoring are a single satellite environment out of many, this allow a uniform way of managing satellite services across basically any type of service offered, being Inmarsat, Iridium, Thuraya, Eutelsat, Viasat, SES or any standard connectivity like 4G networks or SIP/VoIP platform that today are fully integrated into standard satellite equipment.

To make it even better do our platform come with an open Unity API that allow the operator as well as the operators customers to access provisioning, billing and monitoring in real time as if they was connected directly to the satellite provider. This API offer real time provisioning as well as real time billing - this is example allowing a partner to install our satellite environment and connect direct to the operator getting same functionality as if they was directly connected as Tier 1 to the different satellite networks..

Military Grade Security

Our Billing Platform are developed based on the best security practise in the business, our key staff are yearly going through security certifications to ensure that our delivered level of security are fully up to date, we are constaly performing security validations using OWASP, HP Fortify to ensure that we are delivering the best possible security level and provide ISO27001 military grade environments that operate the key data in a highly secure way. Our environment are divided as explained earlier into 3 main blocks, frontend, operator dashboard and backend - where backend isn't connected directly with Internet access - but only offering our secure API in a dedicated tunnel setup - all functionality are performed in the backend environment, where frontend environment basically only handle adding layout and colors to the interfaces, meaning absolutly no data are stored in the frontend environments.

Billing based on proven Open Source

Our Billing infrastructure is based on standard proven open source components - no legacy software like Windows and similar - this is to ensure that the best possible and proven elements are being included without the demand for automated software updates and similar. Our backend is developed in a solid version of Enterprice Jave, our Database cluser is based on MariaDB, our frontend and operator dashboard environment are based on hardend PHP. .

Inmarsat I4 Services

Inmarsat cover a large range of market sectors with the 4 generation services - offering handheld terminals, large self pointing services. Inmarsat I4 servicescover Maritime,Land and Aero with a swift range of products.

All I4 services is based on Inmarsat's 3 geostationary satellites that basically give world wide coverage - terminals are extremly easy to get online as the pointing is made easy and simple - a large range of terminals are available from handheld to large mounted setup.

Inmarsat I4 have been developed based on the standard mobile network technologies 3GPP - making the technical implementation easier to understand linked to normal PDP contexts, APN's, as well as the many standard service terms like SMS, GSPS etc.

I4 Products

The different terminal types offer all Voice, SMS and Data - based on terminals size is the data speed different.

- BGAN - Land based Services
- FBB - Maritime Services
- FleetOne Martime Services
- SBB Aero Services
- Prepaid BGAN Services
- Prepaid GSPS Services
- VesselLINK Services
- M2M BGAN Services
- IDP Messaging Services

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Inmarsat GX Services

Inmarsat 5 generation satellite services deliver high bandthwidth across the globe based on KA-Band.

- JX Aero Business Services
- FleetXpress Services
- GX Aero Commercial Services
- GX Enterprice Services
- G2X Government Air Services
- G2X Government Land Services
- G2X Government Sea Services

Inmarsat Orchestra

Inmarsat ORCHESTRA will be the first of its kind. A unique, global, multi-dimensional, dynamic mesh network that will redefine connectivity at scale with the highest capacity for mobility worldwide and at hot spots, as well as the fastest average speeds and the lowest average latency of any network, planned or in existence.

In the largest ever transformation of Inmarsat’s market-leading services, ORCHESTRA will be a seamless configuration of their ELERA (L-band) and Global Xpress (Ka-band) networks with terrestrial 5G, targeted low earth orbit (LEO) capacity, and dynamic mesh technologies, to create a single advanced solution for global mobility.

Orchestra will basically combine a lot of different communication types into a single connectivity service - having 5G on the ground, new LEO satellites to provide high bandwidth / low latency and where no coverage from these will L-band and GX Ka-band kick-in..