Smart beach
A smart beach is a beach that incorporates technologies such as AI (Artificial Intelligence), automatic drowning detection, riptide detection, wireless communications, sensing, and metasensing (the sensing of sensing) often combining aspects of these three purposes: (1) water safety, e.g. accident reduction, (2) public safety, e.g. crime reduction, and (3) operational efficiency, e.g. allocation of lifeguard resources, promotion of tourism (providing remote views of the beach, etc.), research (e.g. collection of research data)[1][2][3][4][5][6].
Some systems and technologies touch on all three aspects, e.g. systems that automatically sense beach crowding and simultaneously display the results on a traffic-light-like system to indicate to beachgoers how crowded a beach is[7].
Many of these systems use smart city technology applied to beach life.
Water safety: Water safety is often provided through automated drowning detection technologies[8] such as automatic riptide detection, automatic drowning detection, or other related systems.
Public safety: is achieved through enhanced radio communications, wireless communications, warning lights, live video surveillance, and other sensors.
Operational efficiency: Allocation of lifeguard resources is improved which makes the beach management run more efficiently.
- ^ "SafeSwim: Overhead vision to help people see better", IEEE Argencon, 2020 December 2020
- ^ [Smart Beach Project, https://www.nuclearinnovationinstitute.ca/post/safer-beaches-save-lives-innovation-at-work-in-bruce-county]
- ^ [Smart Beaches, https://www.lakemac.com.au/Projects/Smart-Beaches]
- ^ Alam, Muhammad, et al. "Smart cameras are making our beaches safer: A 5G-envisioned distributed architecture for safe, connected coastal areas." IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine 12.4 (2017): 50-59.
- ^ Girau, Roberto, et al. "Be Right Beach: A Social IoT system for sustainable tourism based on beach overcrowding avoidance." 2018 IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things (iThings) and IEEE Green Computing and Communications (GreenCom) and IEEE Cyber, Physical and Social Computing (CPSCom) and IEEE Smart Data (SmartData). IEEE, 2018.
- ^ Nazerdeylami, Arezoo, Babak Majidi, and Ali Movaghar. "Smart coastline environment management using deep detection of manmade pollution and hazards." 2019 5th Conference on Knowledge Based Engineering and Innovation (KBEI). IEEE, 2019.
- ^ https://www.smartcitiesworld.net/news/crowd-prevention-system-uses-smart-pole-to-create-safer-beaches-5302
- ^ Silva-Cavalcanti, Jacqueline S., Monica F. Costa, and Pedro S. Pereira. "Rip currents signaling and users behaviour at an overcrowded urban beach." Ocean & Coastal Management 155 (2018): 90-97.