1 Purpose of integrated navigation systems
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1 Purpose of integrated navigation systems

  1.1 The purpose of integrated navigation systems (INS) is to enhance the safety of navigation by providing integrated and augmented functions to avoid geographic, traffic and environmental hazards.

  1.2 By combining and integrating functions and information the INS provides “added value” for the operator to plan, monitor and/or control safety of navigation and progress of the ship.

  1.3 Integrity monitoring is an intrinsic function of the INS. The INS supports safety of navigation by evaluating inputs from several sources, combining them to provide information giving timely alerts of dangerous situations and system failures and degradation of integrity of this information.

  1.4 The INS presents correct, timely, and unambiguous information to the users and provides subsystems and subsequent functions within the INS and other connected equipment with this information.

  1.5 The INS supports mode and situation awareness.

  1.6 The INS aims to ensure that, by taking human factors into consideration; the workload is kept within the capacity of the operator in order to enhance safe and expeditious navigation and to complement the mariner's capabilities, while at the same time to compensate for their limitations.

  1.7 The INS aims to be demonstrably suitable for the user and the given task in a particular context of use.

  1.8 The purpose of the alert management is specified in module C.

Parent topic: Annex - Performance Standards for Integrated Navigation Systems (INS)
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