A LOW COST EMBEDDED SEA NAVIGATION

AND SECURITY SYSTEMS FOR FISHER MAN

Krishnamurthy K.T,
Assistant Professor,Dept.of E&I Engg, BMS College Of Engineering, Bull temple Road Basavanagudi-19,
Email: [email protected],

Abstract: Fishing the major acceptation of the most costal To overcome this we have come with a robust system which
people, but due to the floods and coastal disturbances it is gives both audio and visual alerts when a fisherman crosses
difficult to the fisher man to know about dangers prior going to the border [2].At the same time we have come up with an
fishing. In this project it is been planned to implement a “SOS” signal. Whenever the fishermen is in danger
fisherman guiding system using ZigBee and GPS Technology.
condition, just with the help of push button, he can send the
Here in this system we design a smart electronic system which
will be continuously tracking the GPS Location of the fisher signal to the port and nearby boats and also in case of any
man, which will provide an alert to the fisherman when he sudden changes in the weather, the fishermen will be
crosses the country borders. In addition to this the system is also informed to reach back to the shore immediately.
having features such as SOS Information Generation, Audio
visual output Generation. We had made use of the Renasis RL- II. PROBLEM STATEMENT
78[R5F100LE] and Arduino Uno microcontrollers as the core of
the system & ZigBee for wireless communication. A. Objectives
Keywords: RenasisRL-78[R5f100LE], Arduino Uno • Design and development of the low cost system for
microcontroller, audio & visual indicators, fishermen, ZigBee. Fisherman Safety, Security and Tracking
System.
I. Introduction
• Use of Low cost GPS module for Determining
The people livelihood in coastal areas completely depends Longitude and Latitude of the Fisherman Boat.
on Aquatic occupation in the marine. Overpass the • To Generate the Distress Messages under
international boundary is being treated as a serious crime. Dangerous Situations.
Due to unawareness about the borderline edge, the • To Generate the Audio Visual Signals to the Fisher
fisherman used to cross the international margins. After they man regarding the Trigger SOS Sent by the Port
cross the margin, they are arrested or killed by the pertinent and vice versa.
navy and they are being snatched and their boats are being • To send a Request Message via ZigBee to Nearby
caught by the neighborhood nation’s coastal guards. Under Boats regarding Dangers.
such condition exists of fishermen continues to be in danger.
And it has become one of the major factors for loss in B. The Main Stages of Project are:
humans as well as their country economic. To eliminate SOS Message receiving station: when a fishermen is in
such difficulties a system has been developed which helps distress have to just push a button, will send out a distress
the fishermen to be aware of crossing the border line [1]. message using wireless ZigBee communication to nearby
The biggest challenge fishermen facing is to differentiate the boats and also to the base station. Weather change alert
international border. Hence we have come up with a transmitting system: the Weather update will be sent to the
technology like Above Proposed System. fishermen when there is a sudden change in the weather.
ZigBee help us to communicate with the fishermen when he
A. The three main features are: is in distress and on boarder communication.
III. Proposed System
• Border Determination.
• Sorrow message communication. This section describes the architecture of the S.E.A.M.A.N as
well as how it is structured and how it works. The
• Sudden weather change alerting. S.E.A.M.A.N can be implemented to all most all fishermen
boats.Whenever the fishermen are under distress situation,
sudden weather changes and crossing the international
border, we can intimate message to the nearest boats or the
main boat. In addition, it is integrated with serial MP3
module [4].
A. Description:
• The block diagram of the SEAMAN device in the boat of
the fishermen shown in Figure.2
• The ZigBee receiver is used to receive the “sudden
Figure. 1: Fishing Boats in Rough SEA weather change alerts” from the Base station.
To distinguish the border of a country at sea is impossible • ZigBee is used to transmit the SOS message from boat to
unlike the land. Unfortunately, many fishermen base station and other boats.
unknowingly cross the international border and get caught.

978-1-5386-7949-4/18/$31.00 ©2018 IEEE

• The latitude & longitude coordinates are obtained using the the SOS Message such as “BAD WEATHER”,
GPS receiver [3] “EMERGENCEY”.
• Push button is used to activate the “distress SOS”
communication.

Figure. 2. Block diagram of the planned system Boat

Module.
• Both weather alert and SOS activation messages are
displayed on respective 16x2 LCD modules.
The Schematic of the Port Module implemented using
Arduino UNO with Audio Visual Signals shown in figure. 3
If the Serial Message is received from the ZigBee the Data is
processed and Audio Visual Signals are generated based on
the message received. Using push button switches we can
generate the SOS messages to the unique boat regarding the Figure. 5. Trigger messages displayed on the LCD of
situation [Ex: Bad weather, Danger]. Boat Module when the Trigger switches are pressed.

Figure .6. LCD Messages Indicating Information Sent

The Boat module decodes the Received information from

the ZigBee and Displays the Template message on LCD as
shown in the figure.6 also produces the LED Module
regarding the command repeatedly for two times also Audio
signal from the MP3.
Figure. 3: Block Diagram of the planned system Port
Trigger Information and Longitude and Latitude Values of
Module.
the Boat under Danger situation. The figure.6 above shows
IV. RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS the Port module of the proposed system including audio
visual indicators and trigger switches. Whenever the Port
A. Boat unit of the planned system
module receives the SOS Information via the zigbee Module
the SOS Command is decoded and audio signal is
The figure.4 indications the boat module of the planned
generated using the MP3 Module Regarding the Problem of
system including audio visual indicators and trigger
Boat which is under Danger. The Longitude and Latitude
switches and GPS module. When the trigger switches
Reference value of the Boat which is under danger situation
pressed the trigger message is displayed on the LCD
is displayed along with the Boat number which is decoded
Indicating Particular operation Performed. An SOS Message
from the SOS Message received from the Boat Module.
is sent via Zigbee module along with the GPS Location of
B. Advantages
the Boat, under Danger Condition Along with the Boat
• Can be implemented into any small fishing boats
Number to the Port as well as nearby boats. Port unit of the
with rechargeable battery support.
planned system shown in Figure. 3. When the Port initiates
certain SOS Messages. Whenever the Port module initiates
 • User friendly operation for illiterate fisherman due
to Audio visual Indicators.
• Cost effective.
• Less maintenance is required. Figure. 9: Boat module indicating the Message
to Fisher man About Crossing Indian Border

Figure. 9 above shows the LCD message as “CROSSED

INDIAN BORDER” also the hardware module Provides
Audio Visual indication Regarding the crossing the Indian
border, when the GPS Coordinates Matches with the
predefined Coordinates for unsafe Indian border areas.

V.CONCLUSION

The proposed system Satellite and ZIGBEE Enabled

Assistance for Marine Navigation [SEAMAN] was
Successfully Designed and Implemented by using the
Microcontrollers [R5F100LE], Arduino Uno].The
Experimental Results are tested for worst case scenarios.It is
observed that the system is responding in a real time based
of the Input signals. The system produces audio visual
signals based on the input data. The software development is
carried out using Cube suite+ [R5F100LE] and Arduino
IDE [Arduino Uno]. The snapshots of the results are
presented.

REFERENCES

[1]M. Sivaramaganesh/International journal of innovative research in

electrical, electronics, instrumentation and control engineering vol. 2, issue
3, March 2014.

[2] K.Prabakaran, A Novel Approach of Geofencing and Geotagging

System Based Sea Border Identification Using Embedded System -
International Conference on Current Trends in Engineering and
Technology, july 2013.

[3]K. Suresh Kumar, K. Sharath Kumar, “Design of lowcost maritime

boundary identification device using GPS system”, International Journal of
Engineering Science and Technology, Vol. 2(9), 2010.

[4]Glenford A. McFarlane and JosephSkobla, “GPS Based Marine

Communicator, Departmentof Physics; the UniversityoftheWestIndies”,
2010IEEEAerospaceConferene Proceedings University of theWestIndies”,
2010 IEEE Aerospace Conference Proceedings.

[5]Design of Data Acquisition and Record System Based on Zigbee and

GPS - Huali Chen & Zhifan Feng - Pacific-Asia Workshop on
Computational Intelligence and Industrial Application, 2008. PACIIA '08.

Figure. 8. LCD Messages indicating the Boat Number [6]The System of GPS Navigation Based on ARM Processor Wang Bo
C. Applications &Jia-Xu Dong International Forum on Information Technology and
Applications (IFITA), 2010.
• Used by small scale fishing industries to provide
security to their employees. [7]P.Satheesh, Maritime Border Refuge System [MBR] National
• Used by marine transport industry to provide Conference on Emerging Trends in Computer, Communication &
Instrumentation in Strength Security.
security and track their vehicles in the sea.
• Self-employed fishers can use this system to
communicate with neighbor Boats in dangerous
situations.
• Can be incorporated into the trespassing Police
boats where high security and tracking is
required.
• Boat module indicating the Message to Fisher men
About Crossing Indian Border