Mobile Transmitting Unit definition
Mobile Transmitting Unit or “MTU” means a unit fitted on board a vessel to enable tracking of the vessel. An MTU usually contains a Global Positioning System (GPS) module and a transceiver module. In its most basic form the transceiver modules transmits the GPS derived time, date and position via a communications service to a Monitoring Station;
Mobile Transmitting Unit. ’ means a transceiver or communications device, including all hardware and software that is carried and operated on a vessel as part of a VMS.
Examples of Mobile Transmitting Unit in a sentence
This system connects a Mobile Transmitting Unit (MTU) to the water meter by means of a single wire.