August 31, 2005
Poseidon: The lifeguard's third eye
This story is not really related to cell phones, but to their disapearing cousin, the pager.
A 10-year-old girl has been saved from drowning by a computer system designed to raise the alarm when swimmers get into difficulties, reports the BBC
The girl, from Rochdale, was at the deep end of the pool in Bangor, north Wales, when she sank to the bottom.
The £60,000 system, called Poseidon, detected her on the pool floor and sounded the alarm. A lifeguard pulled her out and she recovered in hospital."
More on Poseidon:
Poseidon addresses a real need to help lifeguards maintain a vigilant watch over the swimmers in the pool.
Poseidon consists of a network of cameras placed in and around the swimming pool, connected to a PC that executes Vision IQ's CAS software. The system analyzes, in real-time, the images from the cameras, follows the trajectories of the swimmers in the pool, and when a suspicious situation is detected, sounds an alarm, directing lifeguard personnel to the location of the incident."
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