ICIECA 2014 Paper

1. MARITIME BORDER
ALERT BY LOCATION
MONITORING USING GPS
FOR PROTECTION OF
FISHERMEN
Shirly Mini J
&
Shree Krishna Priya J
ECE final year

2. Abstract
To guide the fisher man along the border and to inform
the Indian Navy immediately about the entry of
fishermen into the Sri Lankan maritime border the
proposed system uses a administrator database at the
Navy side to which all the fishermen must be
registered and NOKIA 6600 mobile phone to be owned
by the fishermen to access the GPS for finding the
location of the fishermen, to send message to the
Indian Navy about the whereabouts of the fishermen,
who can warn the fishermen through message to come
back to our side.

3. Fisheries in Tamil Nadu
• Census 2013, there are 3,288 marine fishing
villages .
• The total Marine fisher folk population was about
4 million comprising in 864,550 families.
• 38% marine fisher folk were engaged in active
fishing with 85% of them having full time
engagement.
• 63.6% of the fisher folk were engaged in fishing
and allied activities.
• The problem lies in the fact that India and Sri
Lanka share a 400 km maritime border.

4. What already exist?
An android app by Dr.Swaminathan research
centre to govern the fishermen along the sea
FISHER FRIEND PROGRAMME
• Fisher Friend Mobile Application
• Shore to Shore Approach
• Risk Reduction and Enhanced Fish Catch

5. What is the disadvantage?
•We cannot expect all the
fisherman to own an android
mobile phone
•Even if they own a android mobile
phone they must be taught how to
use it ?
•Since the fishermen needs keep
track by themselves sometimes
the alert falls on deaf ears
•Battery life??

6. What have we suggested to use?
• NOKIA 6600 or any phone that contain GPS
facility
• PostgreSQL(a database for storage of related
information)
• Microcontroller for computation purposes

7. GPS in Nokia 6600
Advantages of NOKIA 6600
• GPS system which can be used
to track the location of the
user (fishermen)
• Cheap
• Language compatibility

8. PostgreSQL
• An
object-relational database management system
(ORDBMS) with an emphasis on extensibility
and standards-compliance.
• As a database server, its primary function is to
store data, securely and supporting best
practices, and retrieve data when required.

9. Role of PostgreSQL
Related information of
fishermen such as their
mobile number, address,
district, state are stored in
the database
Advantage
• If a new fisher man
registers himself in the
network, then the database
supports addition as
required.

10. HOW WE DO IT?
Register fisher
man and mobile
phone
Register fisher
man and mobile
phone
Outside borderOutside border
Message to the admin
“people out of border”
and an SMS to fishermen
Message to the admin
“people out of border”
and an SMS to fishermen
Navy governs
fisher man
Navy governs
fisher man
Check
with GPS
the
position
Check
with GPS
the
positionInside borderInside border
Still outside
border
Still outside
border

11. MARITIME BOUNDARY BETWEEN INDIA AND SRI
LANKA
The current positions are
compared with already stored
latitude and longitude of
countries boundary.
Positions Latitude Longitude
• Position 1 12° 05'.0 N 82° 03'.0 E
• Position 2 12° 05'.8 N 82° 05'.0 E
• Position 3 12° 08'.4 N 82° 09'.5 E
• Position 4 12° 33' 0 N 82° 46'.0 E
locations.
Even more positions can be stored to
increase the accuracy of the
system

12. Computation in Microcontroller
• These points should be stored in
microcontroller. Thus vessel crossing the
border is being calculated.
• The current position received from GPS is
stored as S1 (latitude), S2 (longitude). The
latitude S1 is compared with stored latitudes.

13. Computation in Microcontroller
• If latitude match, then adjacent latitude and
longitudes (X1, Y1 and X2, Y2)
(Y-Y1)/(Y2-Y1) = (X-X1)/(X2-X1)
By simplification, we get ax + by = c
• Now, S1(x) and S2(y) are substituted in above
equation of line and the position of fishermen
are calculated.

14. Alert system
• Inside border: Green color indication
in the database
• Near the border: Red color indication
in the database
• After crossing the border
First layer alert: Alert given to the
administrator side and to the
fisherman through SMS
Second layer alert: Navy personnel
should govern the fisherman to the
right direction

15. Micro
controller
Micro
controller
GPSGPS
Database
server
Database
server
GSMGSM
GPSGPS
Fisherman sideFisherman side
Administration sideAdministration side

16. Advantages of the system
A continuous monitoring of fishermen along the
maritime border with navy assistance
• Even if the alert is missed by the fishermen the
navy can go for bringing the fishermen inside the
border
• Saves lives of fishermen
• Saves from the property loss of fishermen
• Saves the country from unwanted dispute with
the neighbouring nations

17. Disadvantages
• Battery life problem exist as fishermen go out
for fishing for more than a day
• There is a need to carry mobile phones for
monitoring as we do not have automated
boats used for fishing in India
• The reach of mobile signals in far sea needs
satellite assistance which increases the cost
of the project

18. FUTURE WORK
• It can be used in the Tamil Nadu-Sri Lanka
maritime border
• Can also be used in Gujarat-Pakistan border
where the same kinds of problem exist.
• Can be incorporated for maritime border
protection from terrorists.

19. Conclusion
The proposed system uses the GPS to monitor
the position of the fishermen and update the
navy with the position of the fishermen and
warn them when they go out of the Indian
maritime border