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History
Andre van den Berg was a founder member, shareholder and Technical Director of Marine Data Systems (MDS), a pioneering company in AIS who participated in standardizing, developing and promoting AIS internationally (from early-mid 1990’s).
Marine Data Systems manufactured and supplied AIS product worldwide. Andre left MDS in early 2004, starting Maritec.
Since the inception of AIS (1995), Andre participated in the standardization and development of AIS at various international forums, including CIRM, IALA, IEC, IMO, ITU and RTCM.
Andre has vast experience in the implementation of AIS and VTS systems, both through participation (various national and international projects) and business-technical associations.
Under the guidance of Andre van den Berg, MDS developed and manufactured AIS Class A (SOLAS), AIS Base Station and AIS Network products.
The respective products received international type approval, which includes EU MED (Wheelmark), German (BSH), Netherlands (Telefication) FCC (USA), CCS (China), Korean, Polish, Industry Canada, etc.
George Fyfe founded Sine Qua Non Technology Holdings (SQN) in the late 1990’s. He has had a long-standing relationship with Andre van den Berg and MDS, even prior to SQN.
George Fyfe, a pioneer in designing, developing and manufacturing AIS products, has been involved with AIS since its inception.
George and Andre are co-patentees of the TDMA semaphore synchronization method (ITU-R M.1371-1) applied in AIS.
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