Dubai, United Arab Emirates (CNN) - The seashore is not without the risks that require the vigilance of maritime rescue men to maintain the safety of beaches..
Drowning is a major crisis around the world.According to the World Health Organization, there were 320,000 sinking cases around the world in 2016, making it the third highest cause of deaths caused by injuries.
An emerging Israeli company says it has a solution.
The company "Sightbit" created a rescue system that works with artificial intelligence, also called "Sightbit", to help rescuers monitor the beach and determine potential risks, according to co -founder and CEO of the company, Netanyel Ellaf, said.
The system -based system monitors the surrounding environment, reveals and evaluates the risks, then shares information in the actual time with the rescue men on the beach, so that they can act early to prevent fatal accidents, according to what Ellaf mentioned..
The mission of the savior is to prevent accidents around swimming pools or on the beach, and to respond during emergency situations.
Ellav believes that the marine rescue cannot follow all the events taking place in front of him all the time, and so the accidents occur.
Ellav notes that monitoring represents 90% of the task of any sea savior, in addition to an attempt to be advanced by a step before the accidents occurred.
Here comes the role of "Sightbit", and Ellaf says: "Computers are usually better than humans in analyzes and examination.".
Ellav claims that the camera system with artificial intelligence determines the risks of water by 80% faster than humans, which makes marine rescue men familiar with the risks before the emergency situations occur.
The artificial intelligence rescue units consist of three cameras, each covering a tape of the beach with a width of about 100 to 150 meters..
The regime notifies the marine rescue men while they are on their behalf when it discovers a risk, for example the presence of an unattended child on the edge of the water, or the presence of a water vehicle in a swimming area.
Unlike the marine rescue men, the camera can see everything in its vision area at the same time, which saves the precious time that may mean the difference between life and death, according to Ellav..
Ellav believes that the "Sightbit" system is especially useful for crowded beaches, which allows the monitoring of larger areas without increasing the number of marine rescue men.
The regime still needs some accurate control, as the tests conducted on the Beach of Bamahim near Tel Aviv, Israel, revealed that the regime is very sensitive and issues many "wrong positive" alerts, so the company adjusts the risk assessment algorithms..
"The next step is to develop the product to be accurate and sufficiently independent to use it on unprotected beaches," says Ellav..
Smart beaches for smart cities
The "Sightbit" monitoring system is not the only technical initiative designed to make beaches safer.
The "Shark Smart" application, which was established by the West Australian government, allows users to report sharks during the practice of surfing and at the gathering points on the beach.
In the Australian state of New South Wales, the "Smart Beaches" initiative, which is a cooperation between the Northern Beaches Council and the Leak Macquari City Council and the Sydney University of Technology, gathered data to "improve the services of the beach safety risk management", according to the project manager, Tony Blonden.
Blonden explains that marine rescue men record activities and accidents at the end of the day, which may lead to inaccuracy because they depend on human memory..
Passers monitoring cameras exclude the reporting of the number of visitors, while tracking devices with a global positioning system, which are connected to equipment such as jet sunchles and rowing panels, enable marine rescue men and beach managers to monitor how this equipment is used.
This data is related to information about the conditions of weather and the sea, which reveals the environmental risk factors that the marine rescue men should be aware of, such as the link between the decrease in the tide and the increase in the risk of drowning.
Blonden hopes that the project, which is being implemented in four beaches, will help maritime rescue teams improve their way of working.
Blonden asserts that Australia has already has "good and experienced rescue services", and that this technology was designed to support the efforts of the marine rescue men, not their replacement..
Blonden adds that the goal of the project is to "help the right people get the appropriate equipment, in the right place and the right time.".