Strategy for Deep Sea Communication for Safe Fisheries – mKRISHI® Fisheries, a Case Study

Authors

  • Dineshkumar Singh Innovation Lab – Mumbai, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.,Yantra Park, Thane, India
  • Sanjay Kimbahune Innovation Lab – Mumbai, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.,Yantra Park, Thane, India
  • Veerendra Veer Singh Mumbai Research Center of CMFRI, Old CIFE Campus, Andheri, Mumbai, India

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13052/jicts2245-800X.432

Keywords:

Fisheries, mobile, deep-sea, communication, EWS, security

Abstract

Fishing is one of the most dangerous professions in the world. India with one million active fishermen population still lacks a reliable boat-to-shore communication network. Fishermen with smaller boat are more vulnerable to the wilder nature of the ocean, due to dynamic sea current, wind speed, direction and wave heights, etc. They form 80% of the entire fishing community. There being no physical boundary, the risk of fishermen accidently getting in other country’s terrestrial water, is very high. Hence, the fishermen and their families are always concerned about the safety of the human lives, boat and gears. Due to deep sea communication network we can continuously get oceanic condition information. Such real-time information about wind speed, direction and wave height can help to estimate the risks and avoid the ocean region which seems dangerous. As part of this initiative, we looked at various available communication technologies likeVHF transceivers, satellite communication and cellular mobile communication. Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Tata Consultancy Service and Tata Tele Services formed a consortium and piloted a project to extend the mobile signal deep into the sea up to 30 kms. This extended network enabled continuous accessibility of life saving ocean state forecast information provided by INCOIS. Due to this an accessible EarlyWarning System (EWS) spread over a digital highway of 30 by 120 km, along Raigad coast. This paper captures the experiences and recommendations derived from this pilot.

 

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Author Biographies

Dineshkumar Singh, Innovation Lab – Mumbai, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.,Yantra Park, Thane, India

Dineshkumar Singh completed his B.E. in Electronics Engineering from Mumbai University in 1996 and M.Tech. in Software Engineering from BITS Pilani (India) in 2015. He has two decades of IT industry experience, related to telecom core switching and network management and ICT for Society. Currently he is the Group Leader at Tata Consultancy Services Research and Innovation Lab – Mumbai and leads the innovation delivery for the agriculture, fisheries and livestock program. His work involves interaction with the diverse group of the stakeholders, research translation to the field, prototyping, pilot and expansion to the larger group. He has won prestigious National Social Innovation Award 2017 from Ministry of External Affairs, Govt. of India for the Fisheries program. He has published 20+ national and international conferences and journals papers in Springer, IEEE, ACM and CSI. He is member of IEEE and CSI.

Sanjay Kimbahune, Innovation Lab – Mumbai, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.,Yantra Park, Thane, India

Sanjay Kimbahune received is B.E. degree in Electronics from Amravati University with Honors. He is working as Senior Scientist in TCS Research and Innovation. He has experience of 27 years in diverse fields of CTI, Video Conference solutions, Mobile applications for masses. He has published 25 papers and has 8 granted patents. He was instrumental in developing mKRISHI® – a digital platform for farmers. mKRISHI® has reached about 1 million farmers as well has received many prestigious awards. His current research focus is remote scalable pathology for masses and ways to reduce child/maternal mortality in remote areas. His paper on the smartphone compatible low-cost water monitoring system for rapid detection of total coliform and E. coli has been published in prestigious Journal of Royal Society of Chemistry.

Veerendra Veer Singh, Mumbai Research Center of CMFRI, Old CIFE Campus, Andheri, Mumbai, India

Veerendra Veer Singh completed his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Zoology (Fish & Fisheries), Agra University India (in 1976 and 1978). He completed his Ph.D. in Life-Science (Zoology) from Barkatullah University, Bhopal (India) in 1989. He is working in ICAR Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI) since 1986 on Fishery environment, oceanography, remote sensing, GIS, Coastal Zone Management, Fishery diversity & forecasting and coastal consultancy. He is currently Scientist-in-Charge of Mumbai Research Centre of CMFRI. He has worked on identification of potential Mariculture sites along the Indian coast. He has conducted number of outreach activities for stakeholder, fishers and farmers including workshops, seminars, brainstorming sessions, demonstrations and participatory research. His collaborative innovation mKRISHI® Fisheries won the prestigious National Contest on Social Innovation 2017 organized by Ministry of External Affairs, Govt. of India.

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Published

2017-03-25

How to Cite

Singh, D. ., Kimbahune, S. ., & Singh, V. V. . (2017). Strategy for Deep Sea Communication for Safe Fisheries – mKRISHI® Fisheries, a Case Study. Journal of ICT Standardization, 4(3), 199–212. https://doi.org/10.13052/jicts2245-800X.432

Issue

2017: Vol 4 Iss 3

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Articles