Design of Border Alert System for Fishermen Using GPS

Abstract

In day-to- day life we hear about many tamil fishermen being caught and put under srilankan custody and even killed. The sea border between the countries is not easily identifiable, which is the main reason for this cross border cruelty. Here we have designed a system using embedded system which protects the fishermen by notifying the country border to them by using Global Positioning System (GPS) and Global system for mobile communication (GSM). We use GPS receiver to find the current location of the fishing boat or vessel. Using GPS, we can find the current latitude and longitude values and is sent to the microcontroller unit. Then the controller unit finds the current locationby comparing the present latitude and longitudinal values with the predefined value. Then from the result of the comparison, this system aware the fishermenthat they are about to reach the nautical border. The area is divided into four zones- normal zone, warning zone, zone near to restricted zone and finally the restricted zone. If the boat is in normal area, then the LCDdisplays normal zone. Thus they can make it clear that the boat is in normal area. In case it moves further and reaches the warning zone,the LCD displays warning zone. If the fisherman ignores the warning or fail to see the display and movefurther, and if the boat enters the zone nearer to the restricted zone the alarm will turn on and the speed of the boat engine automatically gets controlled by 50%. If the fisherman did not take any reaction about the alarm and move further, then the boat will enter into the restricted zone, the alarm continues to beep as before, and once it touches the restricted zone, the boat engine gets off by the control of fuel supply to engine.