Development of Economical Overload Detection System for Maritime Vehicles in Bangladesh

Abstract

Developing nations are a victim of numerous maritime accidents each year, and a large portion of which are due to overloaded vehicles causing casualties and loss of properties. Current methods for detecting overloaded vehicles are sensor based and image processing based systems but they are sometimes significantly expensive or their analysis and problem detection are excruciatingly complex. Therefore, keeping the economic prospects in mind, in this research endeavor a simple overload detection system is designed and developed that is very low-cost and can be manufactured by using locally available materials. The system developed is mainly for the maritime vehicles of Bangladesh but if it is tested with commercial cruise/cargo ships, then it can prove its effectiveness for much wider range of ships.