VisionAnchor launched presale campaign

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VisionAnchor Launched Presale Campaign

The presale campaign for the first 100 units of the #visionanchor, the first smart anchoring system with underwater video surveillance, location module and safety system, is live until 30 January 2022. The products will be delivered to the buyers in September next year.

Ljubljana, 2 December – The maritime start-up company SeaVision started the presale of their smart anchoring system #visionanchor, the prototype of which was awarded first place among more than 300 prototypes in the competition organised by the European GNSS Agency (GSA) in March earlier this year. The presale, available in the EU countries and the United Kingdom, is active until 30 January 2022 or until all 100 units are sold. The first 100 VisionAnchors are designed for sailing and motorboats between 10m and 40m in length, anchoring up to 20m deep.

VisionAnchor is making anchoring smarter, safer and faster

The mission of the Vision Anchor, which is reimagining the traditional anchoring, is to put ‘eyes on the anchor’ for the captains and crew members to be safer and calmer. The inventors placed the underwater camera above the anchor and connected it to a buoy, making it possible to watch the anchor underwater in real-time. “Just like a baby monitor for your anchor,” explained Matija Jašarov, the co-founder and inventor of the product, “I lost an anchor once and started thinking; if everything around us is getting smarter, why does anchoring remain so old-fashioned?”

The underwater camera is not the only advantage of the system as the Slovenian start-up also introduces a safety system, which sounds an alarm in case the anchor moves and poses danger, enabling the user to react in time. Unlike most anchoring alarms, which rely on the vessel’s position and calculate the anchor dragging by a large radius around the anchor, establishing the wind or current change, the #visionanchor has a location module inside the buoy and the self-adjusting power spring system keeps the buoy directly above the anchor. Because of that, users have an accurate submeter accuracy of the anchor’s position on their smart device. By setting an anchor alarm geo-fence radius from 3 to 20 meters, users get accurate warnings and avoid false alarms, which are common in apps that use the device’s or vessel’s location.

The presale campaign follows the first live presentation on MetsTrade

VisionAnchor was first presented to the public at the world’s largest trade exhibition of marine equipment, materials and systems – MetsTrade, which took place between 16 and 18 November in Amsterdam. This year MetsTrade united 1,936 industry professionals from the nautical scene and saw a lot of newcomers and innovations. #visionanchor, the smart anchoring system, definitely stood out from this year’s new attendees. The early bird price of #visionanchor is discounted by 33% and amounts to EUR 1,762.29 (VAT excl.). The delivery of products is set for September 2022.

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