A Low-cost Boat Distress Alert And Safety System

Fisherman of Bangladesh have little to no equipment on their boat to get help in time of need. Every year thousands of fishermen die on the sea because of natural disaster since they don't have any kind of system onboard which can transmit distress messages. A solution to this problem is to provide them an affordable system so that they can send distress alert to get help in their location. Hence to solve this problem this paper proposes a low-cost Solar powered GPS and GSM based boat distress alert system which can track boat location and during an emergency, it can send a distress message to rescue party with all necessary location information.