Currently, small marine vessels lack any safety mechanisms for anticollision with other vessels. This often leads to collision of small vessels with huge ships especially during night time when the visibility is close to zero, which is caused due to many weather conditions like heavy rainfall or atmospheric fog. Very often, fishing vessels tend to turn off their power to conserve fuel when not needed rendering the conventional safety measures useless.
This calls for cheap, power-efficient and independent anti-collision system which can be easily installed on these fishing vessels. The currently available systems have a subsidized price around ₹35000.
We designed a cost effective system that costs around ₹5000 by detecting the power of AIS signals.
For detailed documentation - refer IIT Guwahati Submission.pdf
For summarized presentation - refer IIT Guwahati Presentation.pdf
Note - We won the bronze medal at the annual Inter-IIT Tech Meet, 2018 held at IIT Madras for this project representing IIT Guwahati and competing against 18 other IITs.