Design and Modelling Ship Automatic Emergency Bilge System with Application of Microcontrollers

Abstract

Shipping industry has always been the main driving force for trade and commerce around the world. Every country relies on maritime transport to sell what it has and buy what its needs. Most of the things we use or eat might travelled from other side of the world and it is transported by the sea via a ship [1]. So, safety and survivability of a ship is very crucial. Until now, there is still lots of cases of ship accidents that causes ship to capsize and sunk in the sea. The purpose of this project is to describe a simple design on an affordable system, and application of the micro controller unit (MCU) based system. This design is simulated using the Proteus software and to be implemented to the hardware models. The program has then compiled in PIC C Compilers, and is programmed into the microcontroller using a programmer for PIC 8 -bit microcontrollers. This project will propose the ship Automatic Ship Emergency Bilge system that will act as a way to control flooding of water in engine room in case of emergency. The model of the system functioned well using the simulator software.