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This study analyzes the potential use of solar cells as a renewable energy source on the MV SARI INDAH. With the increasing demand for energy and the negative environmental impacts of fossil fuels, solar cells provide a promising eco-friendly alternative. The research focuses on developing a prototype system to charge batteries using solar power, converting DC power into AC for ship operations. The methodology includes measuring sunlight intensity, current, and output voltage, while also calculating the battery capacity and the ship’s electrical load. Tests were conducted at various tilt angles, with data recorded hourly over two days to assess performance. The results show that a 75° tilt angle yields the highest voltage, current, and power output when compared to other angles. Based on these findings, the study recommends installing solar panels at a 75° angle on the compass deck. The system design utilizes two panels positioned opposite each other, forming a 150° angle to optimize energy capture. This setup is capable of supplying power to key areas on the ship, such as seven lamps in the E/R 2nd Deck, Control Room, Emergency Generator Room, and CO₂ Room. The system is designed to meet the total daily energy demand of approximately 1,400 Wh, which can be efficiently fulfilled by eight solar cells rated at 50 Wp each, providing a sustainable and efficient energy solution for the vessel.

Wireless communication, in its infrastructure nature, faces many challenges such as fading, data coverage, and interference issues. Therefore, High-Fidelity or (Li-Fi) is utilized due to its ability to naturally provide high-density wireless data coverage in closure’s particularly helpful for application(s) in some areas while the radio interference conditions are concern. This article illustrates an advanced Li-Fi approach performing high-speed data transmission between two Personal Computers (PCs) utilizing the Arduino Nano-based technique. In the experimental phase, data is mainly used to be transmitted over red laser diode (630 nm) through (30 cm) in distance, a distance of 30 cm, achieving a high peak speed reach to about (512Bps). The proposed approach performance is computed by evaluating the most important and related metrics like Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR), Bit-Error-Rate (BER), and influence of throughput on input data over various light circumstance. The proposed approach mainly utilizes a keypad as a user input and two related detection models for both a solar cell and a photodetector in order to make a powerful comparison in terms of performance. the results showed that when the photodetector applies a higher-detection efficiency (via BER enhancement which reaches to 20% over solar-cell), the solar-cell clarify outstanding power and cost-activity. The mentioned findings are propped by elaborated statistical-analyses and MATLAB simulation to design, simulate and visualize the validate functionalities of the robustness and scalability properties of the proposed Li-Fi approach.