1. THE AIDS TO NAVIGATION (AtoN) SERVICE IN SPAIN
May 2014

2. The Spanish
Setting

3. GOVERNMENT AGENCY (Puertos del Estado)
According to Article 149.1(20) of the Spanish Constitution, exclusive competence over coastal lights and marine signals corresponds to the Central State Administration
PUERTOS DEL ESTADO
GOVERNMENT AGENCY (Puertos del Estado)
National Framework
(Royal Decree-Law 2/2011 of 5 September approving the revised text of the State Ports and Merchant Marine Act.) 2 2

4. Puertos del Estado National Framework
Government Agency dependent on the Ministry of Public Works
National Framework
Responsible for implementing the Government's ports policy
Coordination and control of the Spanish maritime signalling system
28 port authorities manage 46 general- interest ports (commercial ports)

5. National Framework

6. The Spanish Setting SAFETY OF MARINE NAVIGATION:
DIRECTORATE-GENERAL OF THE MERCHANT MARINE
MARINE AIDS TO NAVIGATION:
PUERTOS DEL ESTADO GOVERNMENT AGENCY
The Spanish Setting
SOLAS CHAP. V, Rule 12: Merchant Marine
SOLAS CHAP. V, Rule 13: Puertos del Estado (Paragraphs 1 and 2)
Navy Hydrographical Institute/D.G. Merchant Marine (Paragraph 3) 2 6 2

7. IALA PdE IHO IHM IMO D.G. M. Marine AtoN: a tool Spheres of Competence
Aids to Navigation
IHO
IHM
Spheres of Competence
Notices
VTS
Nautical Charts
Notices in NAVAREA II
Nautical docs.
AIS
Vessels
Navigation
Pollution
S&R
Safety
ECDIS
IMO
D.G. M. Marine
(SASEMAR)

8. Lighthouse Commission Agents providing the service
(consultative)
Puertos del Estado
(regulator)
Players and Functions
Port Authority
(inspection)
Inspection
Other entities:
D.G. Coastlines,
Fish farming,
Obstacles
P.A.
Coastal Network
Ports
R.A. Ports
Agents providing the service
USER 2 2

9. Lighthouse Commission
The Commission was set up under the name of the “Standing Lighthouse Commission” on 4 January 1842 as a nation-wide technical organisation to define and establish Spanish AtoNs. It was comprised of engineers holding a civil engineering degree as well as Spanish navy officers, who had the same category.
After being totally reformed, today it is governed by the Ministerial Order of 27 February 1996 and called the Lighthouse Commission. Several organisations connected with maritime signalling are represented in it.
The Lighthouse Commission

10. The Lighthouse Commission
Collegiate body dependent on the Ministry of Public Works (Ministerial Order 27/02/1996)
Reason: Implementation of the coordination competence set forth in Act 27/1992
Voting members:
Puertos del Estado, Navy Hydrographical Institute, Directorate-General of the Merchant Marine, Directorate-General of Civil Aviation, SASEMAR
Non-voting members:
ANAVE, Federation of Fishermen's Guilds, Federation of Marinas
The Lighthouse Commission 2 10 2

11. Putting forward the policy and strategy for the entire national maritime signalling and AtoN system.
Planning and setting targets, service and quality levels, technical guidelines, standards, inspection and control.
Performing tasks inherent to the Lighthouse Commission's Deputy Chairmanship and Standing Secretariat.
Functions

12. Promoting training, research, development and technological innovation in the area of AtoNs.
Functions
Enhancing the conservation of historical and technical heritage and representing Spain in international forums, organisations and committees dedicated to this matter.

13. Facilitating harmonisation among different organisations and institutions responsible for providing the national AtoN service and with neighbouring countries in border areas, as well as gathering users' needs and expectations.
Functions

14. Quality AVAILABILITY service Ayw = 0.6*A(C1) + 0.3*A(C2) + 0.1*A(C3)
Set of management and performance indicators
Weighted availability of the AtoN service
Ayw = 0.6*A(C1) + 0.3*A(C2) + 0.1*A(C3)
C1: Category-I Aids
C2: Category-II Aids
C3: Category-III Aids
REF: IALA Categorisation
y: number of years for which availability is calculated
Aw: weighted availability
A: availability of category

15. Quality
AENOR

16. On The Service Information17

17. The ATONIS Concept INVENTORY (Database) Automatic updating Equipment
Web Server
Automatic updating
Internal / External Client
The ATONIS Concept
PdE
Internal Information (SMS/ other)
Mariner /AIS
INVENTORY (Database)
Maintenance management
Incident Communication Management
Manual updating
Indicators and Quality System
OTHER KINDS OF INFORMATION 18

18. AtoN INCIDENT MANAGEMENT DIAGRAM
Communication of Incident
( )
Puertos del Estado Operator
Sasemar Operator
IHM
- AtoN Manager
- AtoN Inspector (PA/PdE)
- Other Stakeholders
ATON Incident Manag.
control error
Communication confirmation
message
Communication of Incident
(any means)
Within 15 days of the incident's communication
Yes
Puertos del Estado AtoN PORTAL
FTP (Sasemar)
Timón Network
Sasemar
NAV WARNINGS
Communication
of Incident
(Internet)
Failure
Responsible for AtoN No
Any Person
Updating:
- Nautical charts
- Courses
- List of Lights
NOTICE TO MARINERS

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AtoN PORTAL 21

21. AtoN System
National 22

22. SIGNALLING OF OTHER FACILITIES CONCEPT: Functional signalling unit
AREA
SCOPE
COASTAL NETWORK
General-use coastal navigation.
Natural hazards.
PORT SIGNALLING
Approach, entry and interior of ports.
SIGNALLING OF OTHER FACILITIES
Signalling of fish farms, energy facilities, shore protection, wrecks, other facilities (man-made).
Deployment
CONCEPT: Functional signalling unit 23

23. National AtoN System Visual aids Fog signals Radioelectric aids
(Data Dec. 2013)
Visual aids
187 lighthouses
2,059 beacons and port lights
1,228 floating aids
Fog signals
National AtoN System
Radioelectric aids
27 RACONS
National DGPS Network
6 area networks
18 stations
AIS Network
15 shore base stations
15 - AIS-AtoN
AtoN Remote Monitoring System (RMS)
Monitoring centres in each PA
Approx. 300 aids monitored
RMS

24. FUNDING FUNDING No burden on the State Budget.
Port System's (Ports Authorities) internal funding:
AtoN Duty (AtoN Coastal Network)
FUNDING
€9,500,000 (Income)
Average annual maintenance cost (Port System):
€9,500,000 (Expenses)

25. LIGHTHOUSES: 205
Lighthouses Today

26. Facets Lighthouses Today
AtoNs
Platform to install new technologies
Heritage Conservation and value for Society
Lighthouses Today

27. Complementary uses for Infrastructures
Lighthouses that can be visited
Non-hotel related uses
Hotel related uses
Heritage Conservation and Value for Society

28. Declaration as an Asset of Cultural Interest: Monument
A Strategy for their Conservation

29. SPANISH DGPS NETWORK DGPS TECHNICAL CHARACTERISTICS
6 REGIONAL NETWORKS
7 REGIONAL CONTROL CENTRES
1 NATIONAL COORDINATION CENTRE
19 TRANSMISSION STATIONS
DGPS
TECHNICAL CHARACTERISTICS
Availability 99.92%
Accuracy < 3m
Integrity 5s
Coverage 100 nautical miles
Frequency Bandwidth KHz
INVESTMENT: €5 MILLION
FUNDING: PUERTOS DEL ESTADO
PORT AUTHORITIES

30. SPANISH DGPS NETWORK DGPS
SIX REGIONAL NETWORKS
DGPS
National
Coordination Centre
Regional
Coordination Centre
DGPS Correction
Transmission Station

31. Sensors: 12 AIS Base Stations
SW AIS Network
Sensors: 12 AIS Base Stations
Estaca
Candelaria
Coruña
Villano
Finisterre
Punta Cabalo
Silleiro
El Picacho
Chipiona
Cádiz
Trafalgar
Algeciras
AIS
6 AIS-AtoN
Islas Sisargas
Isla Sálvora
Isla Ons
Islas Cíes
Port of Huelva landfall buoy
Port of Cadiz landfall buoy
1 Central Node at Puertos del Estado
9 Consoles at Port Authorities
ShipLocus Console (Web access)

32. SW AIS Network: Services Provided AIS
TO SHIPS
6 Real AtoNs:
4 lighthouses on islands: Sisargas, Sálvora, Ons and Cíes
2 landfall buoys: Huelva and Cadiz
SBS: 9 Real and 15 Synthetic AtoNs: 20 lighthouses and 2 leading lines
3 DGPS corrections with integrity control
Strait of Gibraltar
Finisterre
Estaca de Bares
Weather and Oceanographic Data from 12 SBS
TO PORT AUTHORITIES – PUERTOS DEL ESTADO and other
Traffic information (monitoring, analysis, studies, etc.)
Capacity to control traffic and information to ships (in port area)
AtoN monitoring
2 buoys / can be scaled up to include rest of Real and Synthetic AtoNs
AIS

33. SPANISH AIS STATIONS AIS
BASE STATION
AIS
AIS

34. 25 RACONS
RACONS

35. REMOTE MONITORING SYSTEMS
Remote monitoring systems – whether or not they are equipped with remote control – contribute to enhancing the service provided to mariners. Their implementation allows for more effective management by optimising available resources and reducing operating costs. For each aid thus monitored there is a remote station which gathers information on the aid's operating status and transmits such information to a control centre, which centralises all data and controls the entire system.
A remote monitoring system allows us to know the operating capacity of an aid to navigation through its reliability or the capability of a piece of equipment to perform the function for which it has been designed. It also allows us to know its availability or the probability that a specific aid is operational at any given moment according to the requirements laid down for it.
The remote monitoring system designed by Puertos del Estado contemplates the existence of a control centre at each Port Authority equipped with remote control and a central monitoring system at Puertos del Estado, which allows the status of all the signals monitored at each Port Authority to be known.
Remote Monitoring

36. REMOTE MONITORING AND CONTROL SYSTEM Remote Monitoring
SIGNALS MONITORED: 302
LIGHTHOUSES AND BEACONS: 251
BUOYS: 51
Remote Monitoring
INVESTMENT: €5.3 MILLION
FUNDING:
PUERTOS DEL ESTADO
PORT AUTHORITIES

37. REMOTE MONITORING AND
CONTROL SYSTEM
Remote Monitoring

38. THANK YOU