Fisherman navigation and safety system

Abstract

The fisherman’s crossing the borders and identification of locations in the sea is becoming a difficult task with existing equipment’s provide to the fisherman’s as a result they cross the borders. In our day-to-day life we hear about many Tamil Fishermen being caughtand put under Sri Lankan Naval custody. The sea border between thecountries is not easily identifiable, which is the main reason for this offence. Moreover, in cases of imminent natural disasters, failure or delayin notifying concerned personnel to evacuate results in loss of life on alarge scale. In this paper we have proposed a method which protects thefishermen by logging their entries and exits in the harbour using embeddedsystem, notifying the country’s sea border to them by using Global Positioning System (GPS), GeoFencing and Mobile Systems. We use GPSas a method to track the current location of the fishermen. The GPS’current latitude and longitude coordinates are sent to the database wherethe administrator utilizes it for continuous tracking and monitoring of theuser, if in distress using their credentials and last known location, currentlocation predictions can be made. Another benefit being the logging procedures help official authoritative agencies to identify fishermen and their activities for their own safety and security.