Development of Budget Friendly Wireless Access Point to Use in Littoral Environments

Fishermen travel beyond 100km in trawlers for fishing and sometimes the trips last for a month. The cellular network coverage is limited to 15km from the shore. Fishermen are isolated from the shore, beyond 15km. Several hundreds of fishermen lost their lives during the recent cyclones in 2017 to 2019. This demands an efficient cost-effective and affordable communication system for marine applications. OceanNet can provide Internet Services in the ocean up to 100km. There is a lack of low cost and compact Wi-Fi access points for the current OceanNet System. This work proposes the design and development of a low-cost Wi-Fi access point for the OceanNet System and benchmarks the performance in comparison with the standard off the shelf WiFi Access Point.