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ekta™ is a registered trade mark of Cybernetica AS, applied to the products designed and manufactured by the Department of Navigation Systems (DNS) of Cybernetica AS. This combination of four characters is known to be used as a popular female name in India, but in our case it was taken into use long before the advent of powerful Internet search engines. A company known as EKTA - or more precisely, Computer R&D Division EKTA; Arvutustehnika Arendusbüroo (AAB) EKTA in Estonian - was established in 1976 as a department at the Institute of Cybernetics of the former Estonian Academy of Sciences. It grew rapidly to become a large R&D institution, employing more than 400 specialists from the IT and electronics sectors. In 1980'ies, EKTA became a pioneer in deploying microprocessor applications in Estonia with hundreds of successful projects completed in the field of IT. Areas included those of control systems, testing and diagnostics of digital and analogue systems, system programming, digital signal processing, and digital measurement systems. During 1990..1992 EKTA was restructured and a number of spin-off companies were established on the basis of available human resources. In 1998, EKTA joined Cybernetica AS (then called Küberneetika AS) where it continues to operate as Department of Navigation Systems (DNS) - still referred to as "EKTA", sometimes. Today, the number of employees at the DNS (EKTA) is 24 and we are extensively using the services and production capabilities of the spin-off companies mentioned above, as well as other partners in Estonia. DNS itself performs all design and development activities as well as the final assembly and testing of the systems in order to guarantee stringent control over the quality of our products. The Bureau Veritas Certification has certified the Quality Management System of Cybernetica AS to be in accordance with the requirements of the ISO 9001:2008 standard. Why Aids to Navigation?When Estonia regained independence in 1991, it took over more than 300 visual aid to navigation (AtoN) sites from the leaving Soviet navy. Most of these were in rather poor state: outdated and partly damaged equipment, neither automatic control nor remote monitoring capabilities (800 employees servicing the system), not to mention destroyed or dangerous power supply systems (small nuclear reactors). In order to achieve rapid improvement of this situation and, to guarantee the navigation safety in Estonian waters, in 1993 the Estonian National Maritime Board called for tenders on the development and production of modern control systems of navigation aids and relevant lighthouse equipment. EKTA saw itself fit for the activity, filed a proposal, won the contract and, due to our extensive experience in the field of IT, the first units of the new system designed and manufactured from the scratch were successfully fielded already by the end of 1995. References
The integrated system consisting of monitoring software and navigation aids hardware was developed in close co-operation with the Estonian Maritime Administration as a customer providing valuable feedback regarding the desirable functionality, database user interface options, and network architecture of the system. The control and monitoring system was first implemented in 1996 in Estonia, where it nowadays integrates information from over 200 outstations across the Estonian coastline - lighthouses, buoys, and marine beacons.
AchievementsThe ekta™ Remote Control and Monitoring System of visual aids to marine navigation is one of the most advanced control and monitoring systems for lighted aids to marine navigation in the world. It is based on innovative application of information technology, contemporary microprocessor components, and new powerful Light Emitting Diode (LED) based light sources in the marine lanterns in combination with established technology of traditional marine products. In1998, EKTA became an Industrial Member of the International Association of Marine Aids to Navigation and Lighthouse Authorities (IALA), starting to utilise the globally funnelled knowledge in IALA recommendations and guidelines for improvement of AtoN prducts. In 2008, Cybernetica was invited to join the Engineering, Environment and Preservation (EEP) Committee of IALA, becoming a contributor to the constant process of improvement of marine navigation safety through standardisation. Introduction of LED technology into our marine products quite naturally led us to the development of products for other fields of application where high reliability and low power consumption requirements justify the higher initial costs - namely, road traffic lights and obstruction lights, as well as other visual signalling systems for air, ground, sea and rail. Already in April 2000, Cybernetica AS received an Innovation Award from the Estonian Innovation Fund for achievement in development of the Marine Navigation Control and Monitoring System for the Estonian National Maritime Board. Original, innovative ideas have always been implemented in both software and hardware conceived at the Department of Navigation Systems of Cybernetica AS, with the research and development continuing specifically in the fields of sector and range lights, buoy telematics, real-time measurement and synthetic AtoN AIS. Our MissionWe see our mission in providing quality hardware and software solutions to our customers for primarily visual marine, ground, and air navigation system applications to make the world a safer place. We kindly invite you to explore our product index and consider our services, hoping that we can help you to provide a reliable, competitive and high quality solution to address your needs.
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