Raleigh, NC – November 26, 2007: Digital Switching Systems, LLC, a leading provider of digital switching systems to the marine and transportation markets, is pleased to announce that DSS Operations Manager Tim Sweet was chosen by the National Marine Electronics Association (NMEA) to serve as the new NMEA 2000 Working Group Chair for networked distributed power at a recent kickoff meeting held in Amsterdam, Netherlands during the METS exhibition.
The meeting’s objectives were to define and discuss the scope of work as well as to introduce the formal NMEA 2000 message development process to the distributed power working group. This initial working group is comprised of the following companies; BEP (New Zealand), Digital Switching Systems (U.S.) EMMI (Spain), Mastervolt (Holland), Medallion Instruments (U.S), Moritz Aerospace (U.S.), and Victron Energy (Holland).
“It is exciting to be working with such an experienced group on this ground-breaking collaboration.” said Tim Sweet.
“The goal of this and all NMEA 2000 working groups is to listen very closely to the market requirements for the development of new messages. NMEA 2000 messages are clearly defined and created by industry collaboration and by companies who have the commitment to a standardized open network communication protocol.”, said Steve Spitzer, NMEA Technical Director, “We are pleased to have Tim chairing this effort and guiding the working group to achieve this goal.”
For more information, please contact DSS at (919) 881-0889 or at info@digitalswitchingsystems.com.
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