International Journal of Engineering Research & Technology (IJERT)

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Vol. 2 Issue 7, July - 2013

Multi Purpose Marine Wireless Networks For Fisherman Aid

And Other Applications
1.M. Rajaparthiban
Assistant professor
Mailam Engineering College
India

2. Ashvini P 3.Dhivyadive R
Mailam engineering college Mailam engineering college

ABSTRACT

The fishing is among the most dangerous of of the portable unit, and using a simple multi hop
professions in the world over because once out on communication demonstration. This project can
the sea, the fishermen are subject to various be extended to accommodate text communication
oceanographic and climatic conditions. like that in mobile phones, between various
Especially, so in the developing countries of fishing boats within a certain area, if the portable
South-East Asia, where fishing is a integral part unit is provided with a additional keypad.
of the economy, but there are no proper
established systems for the safety of fishermen. Distress management: If there is any accident or
This project aims at providing a possible emergency situation on a boat, the button can be
solution to the various hardships faced by the pressed on the unit, and an automatic SOS
fishermen because they are cut off from any form message will be broadcasted on the AD Hoc
of communication.. In this project a portable network, thus enabling rescue operations.
device will be made, which uses GPS for real time Information about weather conditions: Using the
location detection and uses Zigbee for wireless AD Hoc network, an weather warning can be
communication. The device also has a small LCD provided to the fishermen from a costal station /
display and a button which acts as a multi from coast guard vessels.
purpose signaling switch. Natural Calamity Warning: Once a network like
Each of the fishing boats is provided with this that is in place, it can also be used for applications
portable device. Using the Zigbee transceivers on like Tsunami Warning using sensors that are
each of the units, all the boats can form a AD Hoc planted on the ocean bed, and connected to a
network within themselves. Once this AD Hoc surface wireless transmitter.
network is established, then the following Prevention of fishermen from crossing into
applications will become possible. international areas:
Each of the portable units will be programmed
I. INTRODUCTION with the GPS boundary coordinates for Indian
Thus a marine AD Hoc network once created can Territory on sea. With this, every time a boat
serve multiple purposes, and this project aims at comes close to or crosses over into international

demonstrating these possibilities using a prototype waters, an alarm will be raised and a message will

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be transmitted over the network about the cross A GPS-based wireless ad hoc network is
over. proposed for marine monitoring, search, and
In this project a portable device will be made, rescue applications in Vietnam. The network
which uses GPS for real time location detection routing protocol and algorithm are evaluated
and uses Zigbee for wireless communication. The using Network Simulator 2 software. The
device also has a small LCD display and a button results indicate a success rate of packages
which acts as a multi purpose signaling transmission higher than 85% and show the
switch.Each of the fishing boats is provided with great potential of the proposed concept.
this portable device. Using the Zigbee transceivers Keywords-Ad hoc network, marine
on each of the units, all the boats can form a AD monitoring and searching, Global Positioning
Hoc network within themselves. Once this AD System (GPS)
Hoc network is established, then the following
applications will become possible . LITERATURE SURVEY AND
. LIMITATIONS OF CURRENT
 Lack of communication between
SYSTEMS
shipping boat.
In Vietnam, there are two systems that are
 Inability to identify the border.
suitable for marine monitoring, search and
 Fishermen suffering in emergency cases.
rescue services. The operation as well as
 Could not carry heavy antenna in small
advantages and disadvantages of each system
fishing boat.
are summarized below.
In this work, we propose a wireless network,
which provides an efficient positioning
COSPAS-SARSAT system is jointly
service and restores the lost sea-to-land link
sponsored by Canada, the Unites States, the
from small fishing boats to central base
Soviet Union and France. This project
stations.The proposed networks combine
requires special purpose radio frequency
global positioning system (GPS) and wireless
transmitters,
sensor network communication system.The
i.e. Emergency Locator Transmitters (ELTs)
proposed concept approach provides
and marine equivalent Emergency Position
continuous reporting and monitoring of all
Indicating Radio Beacons (EPIRBs), which
boats and its exact locations for search and
are automatically activated by aircraft or
rescue process during emergency situations
vessels during emergency and transmit
II. LITERATURE SURVEY
distress signals to multiple low, near-polar
GPS-based Wireless Ad hoc Network for Marine
orbits satellites. The signals received by the
Monitoring, Search and Rescue (MSnR T.D.Ta
satellites are relayed to a network of
and T. D. tranelectronic and telecommunication
dedicated ground stations where the location
Faculty University of Engineering and
of the emergency is determined by measuring
Technology
the Doppler shift between the satellite, with a
precisely known orbit, and the distress signal.

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MOVIMAR system is a joint project between cooperative signal processing, we can detect any
Vietnam and Collecte Localisation Satellites passing ships by distinguishing the ship-generated
(CLS), a worldwide leader of satellite-based waves from the ocean waves. We design a three-
environmental data collection, location and ocean tier intrusion detection system with which we
observations by satellite of the French Space propose to exploit spatial and temporal
Agency [3]. With satellite images collected from correlations of an intrusion to increase detection
Envisat, Radasat-1, and Radasat-2 (starting from reliability. We conduct evaluations with real data
July 2007), this project is going to provide collected in our initial experiments, and provide
continuous updated activities in the South China quantitative analysis of the detection system, such
Sea to the Vietnamese government and its as the successful detection ratio, detection latency,
corresponding agencies and to help in the search and an estimation of an intruding vessel’s velocity
and rescue process of missing boats and fishermen
in case of natural disasters. This is again a DISTINGUISH BETWEEN SHIP-
satellite-based project, which provides the GENERATED WAVES AND OCEAN
broadest and best coverage. While satellite access
WAVE
is provided by the French Space Agency via CLS,
this solution requires a GPS receiver and a
Ship Wave Patterns and Wave Dissipation
satellite transceiver with a large parabolic disk-
When a ship moves across a surface of water, it
antenna to establish a communication link. A full-
generates waves which comprise divergent and
satellite equipment is currently not affordable by
transverse waves as shown in Fig. 2. Kelvin found
most fishermen and its considerable size is not
that V-shaped patterns were formed by two locus
appropriatefor small fishing boats.
of cusps whose angle with the sailing line is
Ship Detection with Wireless Sensor
19_280 in deep water [7], and the angle between
Networks Hanjiang Luo,Student the sailing line and the diverging wave crest lines
Member IEEE,Kaishun Wu Member at the cusp locus line should be 54_440. Note that
IEEE, Zhongwen Guo Member IEEE this pattern is independent of the size and velocity
of the ship. When the ship’s waves spread out

Abstract sideways and propagate from the sailing line, both

Surveillance is a critical problem for harbor the height and energy of the waves decrease. The

protection, border control or the security of research in [15] pointed out that the transverse
commercial facilities. The effective protection of waves decrease inversely proportional to the
vast near-coast sea surfaces and busy harbor areas square root of the distance from the vessel, which
from intrusions of unauthorized marine vessels, means that transverse waves decline much faster
such as pirates smugglers or, illegal fishermen is than divergent waves. In addition, when we
particularly challenging. In this paper, we present observe ship-generated waves at a fixed spatial
an innovative solution for ship intrusion detection. point, the ship-generated wave train has a limited
Equipped with three-axis accelerometer sensors, duration
we deploy an experimental Wireless Sensor
Network (WSN) on the sea’s surface to detect
ships. Using signal processing techniques and

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III. Proposed Solution mainland and radio transmitter

In this work, we propose a wireless network, installed in all fishing boats.
which provides an efficient positioning service • It harnesses the freely available GPS
and restores the lost sea-to-land link from small for location monitoring.
fishing boats which help to our fishermen from • The efficient combination of GPS
border crossing problem by getting alert sound and wireless ad hoc network
and message in display before crossing the border. remedies the fundamental limitation
Weadopted wireless network using zigbee of seato-land communications and
(operating frequency 2.405Ghz~2.480Ghz) for the bottleneck of monitoring, search
sending and receiving the infromation between and rescue process
fishermen boat and control room . The proposed • The short range ad hoc connection
networks combine global positioning system between neighbouring fishing boats
(GPS) and wireless sensor network is inherently more reliable and less
communication system. The proposed concept susceptible to weather condition
approach provides continuous reporting and during disasters. As the result, this
monitoring of all boats and its exact locations for system increases the probability
search and rescue process during emergency
situations by mistake the fisermen try to cross the Objective
border first they will get audio announcement To construct and demonstrate a
with special voice chip and another few minutes multi hop wireless network for
the boat will shutdown automatically .for any marine applications small scale
emergency situation the fishermen get help from fishermen offering the following
control room by pressing sos switch in boat , and applications.
also by using sesismic sensor they get prior • Versatile navigational aid
whether alert like tsunami etc... • Weather updates
AD-HOC NETWORK USING • Emergency reporting on a boat

COMMUNICATION BLOCK DIAGRAM

1. BLOCK OF FISHERMEN’S
DEVICE MODULE

Advantages
• It utilizes the currently existing and
functioning radio system in the

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amplify the audio output from the voice

MICROCONTROLLER- synthesizer. LM386 is used for audio
It is used to transmit the information with the amplification.

GPS location to the monitoring station when they

are near to the International border and also alert
the fishermen. 2. BLOCK OF SEISIMIC SENSOR
MODULE
GPS-
Used to give the exact position of the boat by
giving out its latitude and longitude. Created and
operated by the USA DoD under the name
NAVSTAR. Is a free system using which many
geographic information can be obtained. Basic
information like Location, Time, Speed can be
determined by any GPS receiver. Additional
features likes maps and navigation are also
available on many commercial GPS receivers.
The project uses a G mouse type GPS receiver
that gives the location information as data. In the
project GPS information is used to detect the
present location and provide navigation assiatance

ZIGBEE-
Used to do communication between the control
room module and the fishermen units. Zigbee
module is used in the project and it’s frequency of
operation is in the license free ISM band –
2.4GHz Distance of up to 100mts possible with
the Zigbee module Is Zigbee compatible
SEISMIC SENSOR- is a compact device
Maximum data rates ofup to 250Kbps possible
which senses seismic shocks or earthquakes. The
Uses DSSCSMA/CA technologies for reliable
sensor's main component is a 3-axis accelerometer
communication
sensitive enough to detect a seismic event as small
as 0.01G. The device automatically records the
AUDIO AMPLIFIER-
date, time, duration, and peak acceleration in each
The output from the voice processor is a low axis for up to 15 seismic events.
power signal. It is not sufficient to produce a
voice output on a loud speaker. Hence a audio
amplifier is used to increase the power level of the
voice signals. The audio amplifier is used to

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2. BLOCK OF CONTROL ROOM CONCLUSION

MODULE Using this project we protect the fishermen from
daily facing problem.
In future we have plan to adopt fish tracking
system by fixing RFID active tag in to the fish for
identify maximum fish location so that the
fishermen get benefited.

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[2] H. Karl and A. Willig, Protocols and

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[4] Table of working frequency for Vietnam

Coastal Radio Stations
System.

[5] COSPAS-SARSAT: Search and Rescue

Satellite System.

[6] MOVIMAR project.

Its help to detect boat location and boat number
and also help to give alert system for fishermen in
versatile navigational aid, Weather updates,
Emergency reporting on a boat.

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