Yacht and Pleasure
Craft Tracking
A full-stack yacht tracking solution that watches your boat when you are not aboard. Anti-theft GPS with stolen-vessel recovery, an anchor-drag geofence that fuses NavIC and GPS with an accelerometer, bilge water and battery alarms, and a consumer mobile app for live position, alerts, and history. Hardware, firmware, and cloud are part of one build.
THE CHALLENGEA Yacht Sits Unattended for Weeks, and Most Trackers Sleep Through the Problem
A pleasure craft spends most of its life on a mooring or in a marina with nobody aboard. The risks that matter happen quietly: the boat slips its anchor overnight, the bilge fills while the float switch is stuck, the house battery drains until the systems die, or someone tows the boat away after dark. A generic vehicle tracker draws too much current to survive on a 12V house bank for weeks, and it has no idea what an anchor watch or a bilge alarm even is. This yacht tracking solution runs for months on the house battery, knows the difference between wind sway and a dragging anchor, and gets a real alert to your phone the moment something is wrong.
Part of the Telematics and GPS Tracking stack, and commonly built alongside Vessel and Fishing Boat Tracking.
WHAT'S INCLUDED
Anti-Theft Tracking and Marine Monitoring Hardware
Anti-Theft GPS and Stolen-Vessel Recovery
A concealed tracker stays silent until the boat moves without permission. On an unauthorized motion or tow event the firmware sends a live position stream and switches to a faster reporting rate so you and the marine police can follow the vessel in real time. The install is designed for concealment and tamper resistance so a thief cannot find and pull the unit quickly.
Anchor-Drag Geofence Alert
A dragging anchor is caught by holding the boat inside a tight circular geofence set from the moment you drop the hook. The firmware fuses the u-blox NavIC and GPS fix with an accelerometer to separate normal wind and tide swing from a real drift outside the circle, then raises an anchor-drag alarm to your phone before the boat ends up on the rocks.
Bilge Water and Battery Monitoring
A bilge water sensor and a voltage monitor on the 12V or 24V house bank wire directly into the tracker. High-water and low-battery thresholds raise alarms before a slow leak floods the bilge or a parasitic draw kills the battery. You see the actual voltage and water state in the app instead of finding out when you arrive at the dock.
Consumer Mobile App
A consumer iOS and Android app shows live position on a marine chart, push alerts for anchor drag, theft, high water, and low battery, plus a trip and position history you can scroll back through. Geofences and alarm thresholds are set from the phone with no laptop and no installer visit.
Marine Power Management
The device runs on the 12V or 24V house battery with deep sleep modes between reports, optional solar trickle charge input, and a standby budget measured in months rather than days. An STM32 with a Quectel EC200 or BG95 modem wakes on a schedule or on a motion interrupt, so the boat stays watched without draining the bank that runs the bilge pump.
Cellular Plus Optional Satellite
Near the coast the unit reports over cellular through the Quectel modem with a TLS link to the cloud. For owners who cruise offshore beyond cell range, an optional satellite path keeps anchor-drag and theft alerts flowing from open water. The firmware picks the available link and queues messages when neither is reachable.
HOW IT WORKS
From Mooring to Alert on Your Phone
The device spends almost all of its life asleep and only does real work when something changes. Every stage is designed so a tracker left on the house battery for a month still catches the night the anchor lets go.
Sense and Sleep
The STM32 holds a NavIC and GPS position, watches the accelerometer, and reads the bilge and battery sensors, then drops into a low-power sleep between checks to protect the house bank.
Detect and Decide
A motion interrupt, a drift outside the anchor geofence, a high-water reading, or a low-voltage threshold wakes the firmware. It confirms the event so wind sway does not trigger a false alarm, then escalates the report rate.
Report and Alert
The Quectel modem opens a TLS connection to the cloud over MQTT, or falls back to satellite offshore, and the mobile app fires a push alert with the live position and the reason it woke up.
STANDARDS AND COMPLIANCE
Built for the Marine Environment and Indian Positioning
IP67 Marine Enclosure
The electronics sit in an IP67 sealed enclosure rated for spray, immersion, and the salt and vibration of a boat. Connectors and the antenna feed are chosen to survive a marine deck rather than a dry vehicle dashboard.
NavIC and GPS Positioning
NavIC and IRNSS positioning runs alongside GPS through the u-blox receiver, which improves fix reliability in Indian coastal waters and tightens the anchor geofence so a drag alert fires on a real drift, not on positioning jitter.
Secure Cloud and Data Handling
Every link to the cloud runs over TLS, and the firmware handles credentials and over-the-air updates so a fielded device stays patched. Owner location and history sit behind authenticated access in the mobile app, not on an open feed.
FAQ
Common Questions
How long does the tracker run on the boat battery?
Standby is budgeted in months, not days. The STM32 sleeps between reports and wakes on a schedule or on a motion interrupt, drawing very little current from the 12V or 24V house bank. With an optional solar trickle input the device can sit on a mooring through an off-season without flattening the battery that runs your bilge pump.
How does the anchor-drag alert avoid false alarms from wind and tide?
A tight circular geofence is set the moment you drop anchor, and the NavIC and GPS fix is fused with an accelerometer. Normal swing around the mooring stays inside the circle and the firmware ignores it. Only a sustained drift outside the geofence, confirmed across several fixes, raises the anchor-drag alarm to your phone.
What happens if someone tries to steal the boat?
The unit stays silent until it sees unauthorized motion or a tow event, then switches to a fast reporting rate and streams live position to your app and, if you choose, to recovery contacts. The install is designed for concealment and tamper resistance so a thief cannot quickly find and remove the tracker.
Can it monitor the bilge and the battery as well as position?
Yes. A bilge water sensor and a voltage monitor on the house bank wire into the same device. High-water and low-battery thresholds raise their own alarms, so you learn about a slow leak or a draining battery from a push alert instead of discovering it at the dock.
Does it work offshore where there is no cell signal?
Near the coast the unit reports over cellular through a Quectel EC200 or BG95 modem on a TLS link. For owners who cruise beyond cell range, an optional satellite path keeps anchor-drag and theft alerts flowing from open water, and the firmware queues messages when neither link is reachable.
Is there an app, or do I need a separate gateway?
A consumer iOS and Android app is included. It shows live position on a marine chart, push alerts for anchor drag, theft, high water, and low battery, and a scrollable position history. You set geofences and alarm thresholds from the phone, with no laptop and no installer visit needed.
Will it survive on a boat deck?
The electronics sit in an IP67 sealed enclosure rated for spray and immersion, with connectors and antenna routing chosen to handle salt, humidity, and vibration. The design targets the marine environment from the start rather than reusing a dry automotive tracker.
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