iKommunicate
RCMSAR And Facilitating Marine Rescue From The Cloud (BLOG/VIDEO)
My unit of the RCMSAR had 87 calls in 2015, making it the busiest volunteer marine SAR station in Canada. It's a situation that motivates a tech enthusiast and advanced crew member like myself to think about better tools and procedures.
iKommunicate From Digital Yacht, Signal K Gets Kickstarted (BLOG)
Digital Yacht was understandably hesitant about developing a gateway for Signal K apps and services that hardly exist yet, but the Signal K universal boat data concept -- open source, entirely free, and created by unfunded volunteers -- needs a commercial level NMEA gateway.