Automation in Offshore Ballast Water Management System

This paper gives a overview of application of automation in Marine Engineering, Ballast water carried by ships for balancing is becoming a fourth major environmental threat, including marine organism causes bio invasion. It is necessary to control bio-invasion problem, for this we proposed a methodology to monitor and control the flow of ballast water from natural filtered water to the storage tank in offshore through web server, in this paper we have tried to make website which can be used universally to automate a ballast water management systems. There are many system to do the same but this is about to monitor and control flow of ballast water using Internet with the help of Raspberry pi. The flow rate of ballast water is measured from Hall Effect based flow meter; a pressure gauge sensor is used to give a constant reading of individual tanks, a microcomputer to control the pumps operation which is connected through relay board. Server was set up by means of Raspberry pi.