About project
Some vessels, such as smaller boats, tourist boats, boats for sports and pleasure, scooters, wooden and primitively built ships, etc. (non-SOLAS vessels), in accordance with Chapter V of the SOLAS Convention, are not required to have certain navigational communication equipment. The equipment they are required to possess is subject to national legislation and is not standardized. Such vessels often do not have any navigation and communication equipment. Furthermore, these vessels cannot be detected, in terms of identification, by the competent VTS and other vessels in the area, which poses a potential risk to the navigation safety and the security of a certain area. We have witnessed numerous accidents at sea in which these vessels (non-SOLAS vessels) are often involved, especially during the summer tourist season on our coast.
This project aims to prove the concept of an E-navigation system for non-SOLAS vessels, which would address the mentioned security risk through the use of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies, and to develop its prototype, which would validate the concept in practice on the example of the Bay of Kotor. More precisely, by using a smartphone or a dedicated device (the prototype of which would also be created as part of the project), a Global Positioning System (GPS) signal, an appropriate computer cloud platform, and the development of the necessary applications, the E-navigation system would be designed to provide the users of these vessels insight into their route and the route of neighboring vessels, information about maritime routes, dangerous or prohibited zones or locations, and the competent authorities the possibility of monitoring the movement and identification of these vessels.
Latest news
Final testing of the functionality of e-navigation solutions for non-SOLAS vessels
On December 3, the final, 11th experimental testing of the developed solution for e-navigation of non-SOLAS vessels and a dedicated device based on the RPi platform was carried out in Budva Bay.
Scientific paper from the ENAV project was presented at the PosTel 2024 conference
At the 42nd symposium on new technologies in postal and telecommunication traffic - PosTel 2024, held at the Faculty of Transportation of the University of Belgrade, in the period 26-27 November 2024, head of the ENAV project, prof. Božo Krstajić, PhD, presented the paper "Telecommunication systems in the proposed solution for e-navigation of non-SOLAS vessels".
