Border Detection System for Fisherman using GPS and Arduino

Abstract

There has been several cases where the ignorant and poor fishermen of Tamil Nadu have unknowingly and due to lack of technical equipment and knowledge have crossed the international border of sea and has been arrested by Sri Lankan naval forces on the accusation of terrorism. These innocent fishermen with no fault of theirs get caught and get severe punishment for the fault they don't know about. Countries with the International Marine time Boundary Line (IMBL) will always have security problems and continuous life threatens for those fishermen whose family's main economic support is fishing. Even in the peninsular country like India has their boundary limit in the ocean, the people of these coastal regions has the main work of fishing, due to carelessness or without knowing their boundary limit of their country they cross the borders. So in order o solve this problem, our group took this as a challenge and we have found an easy and feasible way to solve this problem in which the fishermen would be given certain signals and a buzzer would sound as soon as they approach the border and thus they can remain at safe distance from the border. This would greatly help the poor and innocent fishermen to remain within the Indian borders and continue their work.