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Application of GNSS Technology for High Speed Boats Tracking and Collision Avoidance

Since each country with access to the seacoast is an interesting tourist destination, additional facilities are built in such countries to attract tourists. In addition to the usual rental offer of a variety of sea vessels, boats, yachts and sailboats, an increasingly popular trend of adrenaline sport is introduced in the form of high speed boats. They are also called Jetski and present a fast growing rental business in the area of adrenaline sports. In this paper possible solutions to detection and prevention of collisions will be analyzed in order to raise the level of safety of sea traffic. The research is motivated by the fact that renting of fast boats is done mostly to amateur drivers. They are usually searching for vacation fun with little experience of manipulating high speed boats. Several implementation difficulties due to the high dynamics of these speed boats will be examined. The driving style of these boats which includes very quick change of speed and direction of movement is an additional challenge. Proposed embedded system is based on the Atmel AVR family of processors, and SIMCOM SIM908 GSM and GPS system. Proposed system was tested in real world scenarios during the touristic season on the Adriatic coast. Significant amount of GPS position data for collision detection analysis were collected including tourist behavior data to test the earning reports generation module.

collision detection; GNSS; speed boats; remote control

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