Design and implementation of a man-overboard emergency discovery system based on wireless sensor networks

Authors : Abdullah SEVİN, Cüneyt BAYILMIŞ, İsmail ERTÜRK, Hüseyin EKİZ, Ahmet KARACA

Pages : 762-773

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Publication Date : 0000-00-00

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :Recently, wireless sensor networks insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(WSNs); have been widely employed in many different fields such as military, surveillance, health, agricultural, automation, and environmental monitoring. This paper presents a designed and implemented WSN-based man-overboard emergency discovery system, abbreviated as W-MEDS, that discovers the location of a person in emergency circumstances and runs an alarm system on a ship. The developed W-MEDS carries out a fast man-overboard insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(MOB); discovery and initiates the vital rescue procedure. It mainly consists of a WSN and a control and discovery system. When a MOB accident occurs, this situation is easily detected through the WSN nodes capable of real-time sensing insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(i.e. temperature, humidity, and acceleration); and the system enables location estimation. The control and discovery system analyzes and displays the received data from the WSN nodes. The most noteworthy advantage of the proposed W-MEDS is that it enables both real-time alarm monitoring and fast recovery. In addition to the implementation of the W-MEDS, considering hardness in performance evaluation of the real system, it has also been simulated in the OPNET Modeler to confirm the accuracy for different sizes and numbers of nodes.
Keywords : Wireless sensor networks, emergency discovery system, man overboard, remote sensing, environmental monitoring