Computer Saves Girl’s Life
By Seb
ZDNet.co.uk reveals that a state-of-the-art computer system installed in a public swimming pool in Wales detected the motionless girl at the bottom of a extremely deep swimming pool and informed the life guard of her whereabouts and how long she had been there for. The computer managed to alert the lifeguard after 30 seconds of her being in the water.
The local council installed the system after lifeguards were having problems seeing to the bottom of the pool in the deep end and cost around £65,000 to install. The computer detects whether someone is in distress by calculating swimmer’s trajectory in the pool using both above water and underwater cameras installed around the pool.
You can read more about it here…
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9584_22-5845447.html
You can see more pictures of the system here…
http://news.com.com/2300-1012_3-5845482-3.html
September 6th, 2005 at 1:38 pm
Surely the lifeguard should’ve been watching anyway
It shows that technology certainly has its positive points… 