IEC PAS 61996-2:2005

Maritime navigation and radiocommunication equipment and systems - Shipborne voyage data recorder (VDR) - Part 2: Simplified voyage data recorder (S-VDR) - Performance requirements - Methods of testing and required test results

Specifies the minimum performance requirements, technical characteristics and methods of testing, and required test results, for simplified shipborne voyage data recorders (S-VDRs) as required by IMO MSC.163(78). Takes into account IMO resolution A.694(17) and is associated with IEC 60945.

General Information

• Status: Replaced
• Publication Date: 20-Jul-2005
• ICS: 47.020.70 - Navigation and control equipment
• Technical Committee: TC 80 - Maritime navigation and radiocommunication equipment and systems
• Drafting Committee: WG 11 - TC 80/WG 11
• Current Stage: DELPUB - Deleted Publication
• Completion Date: 20-Mar-2006

Relations

• Replaced By: IEC 61996-2:2006 - Maritime navigation and radiocommunication equipment and systems - Shipborne voyage data recorder (VDR) - Part 2: Simplified voyage data recorder (S-VDR) - Performance requirements, methods of testing and required test results
• Effective Date: 05-Sep-2023

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PAS 61996-2
SPECIFICATION
First edition
Pre-Standard
2005-07
Maritime navigation and radiocommunication
equipment and systems –
Shipborne voyage data recorder (VDR) –

Part 2:
Simplified voyage data recorder (S-VDR) –
Performance requirements –
Methods of testing and required test results

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PUBLICLY
IEC
AVAILABLE
PAS 61996-2
SPECIFICATION
First edition
Pre-Standard
2005-07
Maritime navigation and radiocommunication
equipment and systems –
Shipborne voyage data recorder (VDR) –

Part 2:
Simplified voyage data recorder (S-VDR) –
Performance requirements –
Methods of testing and required test results

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CONTENTS
FOREWORD.3

INTRODUCTION.5

1 Scope .6

2 Normative references .6

3 Terms, definitions and abbreviations .7

3.1 Terms and definitions .7
3.2 Abbreviations .8
4 Performance requirements.9
4.1 General .9
4.2 Purpose .9
4.3 Operational requirements.10
4.4 Data selection and security .12
4.5 Continuity of operation.13
4.6 Data items to be recorded.14
5 Technical characteristics .16
5.1 Co-relation in date and time .16
5.2 Particular design requirements for the protective capsule .16
5.3 Location beacon(s) for the protective capsule.17
5.4 Survivability of recorded data.18
5.5 Information to be included in the manufacturer’s documentation .19
5.6 Bridge audio specifications .20
5.7 Communications audio.21
5.8 Radar data – Post-display selection .21
6 Methods of testing and required test results .22
6.1 General .22
6.2 Data items to be recorded.29
Annex A (informative) IEC 61162 sentence formats .46
Annex B (informative) Mandatory alarms .47
Annex C (informative) Requirement/test – Cross-references .49
Annex D (informative) Cross-references between VDR and S-VDR .51

Bibliography .52

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INTERNATIONAL ELECTROTECHNICAL COMMISSION

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MARITIME NAVIGATION AND RADIOCOMMUNICATION

EQUIPMENT AND SYSTEMS –
SHIPBORNE VOYAGE DATA RECORDER (VDR) –

Part 2: Simplified voyage data recorder (S-VDR) –

Performance requirements –
Methods of testing and required test results

FOREWORD
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IEC-PAS 61996-2 has been processed by IEC technical committee 80: Maritime navigation
and radiocommunication equipment and systems.
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80/401/NP-PAS 80/406/RVN
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Following publication of this PAS, the technical committee or subcommittee concerned will

investigate the possibility of transforming the PAS into an International Standard.

IEC 61996 consists of the following parts, under the general title Maritime navigation and

radiocommunication equipment and systems – Shipborne voyage data recorder (VDR):

Part 1: Performance requirements – Methods of testing and required test results (currently

available as IEC 61996:2000)
Part 2: Simplified voyage data recorder (S-VDR) – Performance requirements – Methods of

testing and required test results

This PAS shall remain valid for an initial maximum period of three years starting from

2005-07. The validity may be extended for a single 3-year period, following which it shall be
revised to become another type of normative document or shall be withdrawn.

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INTRODUCTION
This document is issued as an IEC Publicly Available Specification according to the IEC/PAS

approval process. This agreed process allows the new information needed to implement the

simplified voyage data recorder (S-VDR) to be placed in the public domain in a shorter time-

scale than revising the appropriate International Standards.

The S-VDR has been introduced by the IMO for fitting to existing ships as a simplified

alternative to the voyage data recorder (VDR) which is required for all new ships.

This document provides information on the testing requirements for S-VDR as defined in IMO

performance standard MSC.163(78).
The specification for S-VDR differs significantly from that for VDR in two areas:
a) the requirements for monitoring certain sensors are reduced when the data is not provided
in IEC 61162 format;
b) the requirements for the protective S-VDR capsule are different from the VDR capsule,
both for the fixed and float-free versions.
Annex D provides a cross-reference between this document and IEC 61996 to aid test houses
which may already have test results for VDRs which are being submitted as S-VDRs.

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MARITIME NAVIGATION AND RADIOCOMMUNICATION

EQUIPMENT AND SYSTEMS –
SHIPBORNE VOYAGE DATA RECORDER (VDR) –

Part 2: Simplified voyage data recorder (S-VDR) –

Performance requirements –
Methods of testing and required test results

1 Scope
This PAS specifies the minimum performance requirements, technical characteristics and
methods of testing, and required test results, for simplified shipborne voyage data recorders
(S-VDRs) as required by IMO MSC.163(78). It takes into account IMO resolution A.694(17)
and is associated with IEC 60945. When a requirement in this standard is different from IEC
60945, the requirement in this standard takes precedence.
NOTE All text of this standard, whose wording is identical to that of IMO MSC.163(78) is printed in italics, and the
Resolution and associated performance standard paragraph numbers are indicated in brackets.
2 Normative references
The following referenced documents are indispensable for the application of this document.
For dated references, only the edition cited applies. For undated references, the latest edition
of the referenced document (including any amendments) applies.
IEC 60068-2-27:1987, Environmental testing – Part 2: Tests – Test Ea and guidance: Shock
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