Design a Navigation and Communication System on Small Fishing Boats Using the Multinode Data Hopping Method


The student who made the title of this Final Project was Bounty Ahmad Syah Alam from the D4 Ship Electrical Engineering Study Program.

Based on data obtained from the Indonesian Central Bureau of Statistics there is a high possibility that sea transportation can become very prevalent in the future with an estimated number of ships in circulation of approximately 700,000 ships with such a large ship population which allows that small ships or traditional ships will increase in number and population and also the possibility of new problems will arise,  i.e. obstacles in the regulation of sea transport traffic. Equipment that already exists and is widely circulated is AIS. AIS is an automated tracking system used on ships to identify and locate ships. However, in its implementation, not all ships can use it, mostly used on large ships because the price is not affordable.

Therefore, this problem can be overcome if there is a system design that can inform data on the position, speed, and direction of the ship in an area. The design of this tool uses the ESP32 microcontroller as a data processing control, GPS module, compass sensor as a navigation system, and LoRa radio frequency module as data transmission with a long distance range. The processed data is sent to adjacent ships either directly or indirectly. Data transmission indirectly using Multi Node Data Hopping method to extend transmission range. Data from these ships will be sent and can be monitored on the dashboard through computers on land.

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