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Automated Pool System Saves Swimmer

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the watchful-eyes-for-something-besides-privacy-invasion dept.

An anonymous reader writes "An automated swimmer tracking system installed in a pool in Wales has saved a young girl who just collapsed and sank to the bottom, by paging lifeguards when it could not detect her moving." This is the first time a UK swimmer has been saved by the £65,000 Poseidon system since it was installed in March of 2003.

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  1. One step further by fembots · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Paging lifeguards is good as long as one is available.

    Maybe in the future, a secondary (upper) tiles can be installed on the pool floor, and the system is able to pinpoint the victim and automatically raise enough tiles to push the victim out of the water.

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