Development of a Tracking and Automatic Distress Generation System for Coastal Fleet Ships

This paper introduces a multiplatform communication system developed to provide real time positioning of the fishing or recreation boats that usually move in the marine zones known as A1 and A2. The system also generates automatically the alert signal from a boat operating in these marine zones. The most important target of the system is to increase the security of navigation in these zones, as well as to facilitate the work of marine rescue teams by improving the precision in the positioning of ill-fated boats. As an additional functionality, the system is equipped with the capacity to control the position of the crew and the dinghies on board. This capability allows detecting the accidental falls to the sea, making possible therefore the performance of the ship in the first steps of a rescue operation.