DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF DATA ACQUISITION CONSOLE FOR NAVAL SHIPS USING A MICROCONTROLLER

Abstract

ABSTRACT 1. The Indian Navy presently operates more than 150 Ship/ Submarines of different class. These platforms are fitted with large no of state of the art systems required for there smooth operation. It is pertinent to mention that any average frigate/ destroyer of Indian navy carries more 500 tones of live ordinance / ammunition onboard. Further the said ordinances is stored in specialized compartments called magazines and the same are required to be monitored on real time basis for various hazards like Fire and flooding. 2. In addition to the above mentioned hazards, the magazine compartments are also required to be monitored for various parameters like temperature. Humidity, gas content etc. to avoid any damage to the ammunition. The present project is an attempt to design a microcontroller based real time magazine compartment monitoring system for naval platforms. 3. In this project a prototype, Data Acquisition Console has been designed using a COTs (commercial off the shelf) microcontroller board like Arduino/ Raspberry pi/ Beaglebone. The DAC (data acquisition console) will be able to pick up data from various environment sensors fitted inside the magazine compartments and transfer the data on real time basis to the (COP) Computer Observation Posts (on a GUI) in the various compartments of the ship on UART/ Ethernet protocol. Further provisions has also been made to set alarms, whenever a particular sensor reading crosses a pre-designated safe limit.