Deployment and validation of a sensor network and autonomous driving on a ship

Abstract

The personal automobile market goals are very clear; IoT, autonomous driving, comfort while driving¿ But those trends do not apply to all personal transportations systems. In this case, we are going to study the IoT and autonomous driving of recreational ships. The main goals of this work include: i) understanding the insight functioning of a recreational boat; ii) studying the ship sensors protocols and internal communication focusing on NMEA and SeaTalk, which are widely used in maritime communication; iii) studying the external communication protocols for security use focusing on AIS. The third part includes recognizing the data sent between ships and control centers and focusing the study on the AIS protocol in terms of technology features, bitrate, delays, etc... The project puts into practice what has been learned and connects ship sensors and an AIS receiver to a raspberry pi to see ours and other ships information. The final objective is to have a cheap centralized visual data center of the insights of the boat and the boats that are around. Thus, the work sets the basis of autonomous driving and IoT in recreational boat transports.