Intelligent Collision Avoidance system for fishing boat

Abstract

Collision of fishing vessels with ships has become one of the major hazards faced by marine fishermen. Due to the lack of a proper communication system, the fishermen at sea do not get any information about the oncoming ships. Ships have radars but sometimes they fail to detect small objects such as fishing boats. This project is designed for avoiding collision between merchant ships and fishing boats at sea. Since there are no proper systems for alarming the fishing boats to avoid collisions, the accidents keep happening and they remain unnoticed. There are no proper communication systems to inform the outside world if an accident occurs. In this project we have developed a collision avoidance system to alert the fishing boats about the incoming ships or objects along with an accident detection system. The proposed system includes Arduino Uno, Ultrasonic and vibration sensor, GPS and GSM modules. The ultrasonic sensor detects the incoming ships or objects and alerts the passengers of the fishing boat. The accident detection system include a vibration sensor which detects the collision and the GPS module finds the location in terms of latitude and longitude and both the data is fed to the Arduino where it is processed and send to emergency responses in the form of a message using the GSM module