Division 3.1 Hardware performance

Inland ECDIS in navigation mode equipment shall be designed and manufactured to withstand typical environmental conditions prevailing on board of a vessel without any degradation in quality and reliability. Furthermore, it shall not disturb other communication and navigation equipment.

In the configuration as described in Chapter 2.2.4 of this Section, all components of Inland ECDIS equipment installed inside the wheelhouse shall fulfil the requirements of the class b) ‘protected from weather’ equipment as specified in the standard EN 60945 with the exception that the test temperature range is limited to 0 °C to + 40 °C (whereas the test temperature range in EN 60945 is specified from – 15 °C to + 55 °C) unless specified differently in this Annex. For the configurations described in Chapters 2.2.2 and 2.2.3 of this Section CE conformity is sufficient.