Portable Life Protection System for Fishermen Using Global Positioning System

The Global Positioning System (GPS) offers a very easy and a relatively cheap way of finding out ones location on the planet. As the name indicates this project is an application of GPS. It is a very hardship business for fishermen who stand in the middle of the ocean without knowing where they are actually located. This project addresses these problems by providing a preprogramed portable navigational guide. The GPS receiver continuously generates and gives the latitude and longitude information continuously. The system also has a microcontroller into which the boundary co-ordinates of the country are already programmed. The information from the GPS receiver is given to the microcontroller where the current coordinates are compared with the boundary co-ordinates and it is found out if the device is with the boundary of the country or not. In addition the project houses a distress alert system in which the concerned authorities are immediately sent a distress call from the boat if the fishermen are facing some calamity. Also a communication between the fishermen boat and the nearby ship is introduced in this system. An Automatic Identification System is introduced here. That is instead of pressing the key asensor is fixed and the information’s from the fishermen boat is automatically transferred to the coastguard section.