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Automated Pool System Saves Swimmer
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.
It should be fairly easy to detect snoozy Wally-types, based on their immobile desk chair profiles.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
Have you worked with computerized vision detection systems before? Maybe you're just trying to be curious about how the system works the way it does and why, but it sounds like you're being critical of something you don't know anything about.
I know little to nothing about computerized vision detection systems and wonder the same thing. I have to believe that the decisions made in its design were made for good reasons though to solve problems I would have no idea are even their.
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My sister was later a lifeguard at a pool that didn't have a swim test policy. She probably had to pull somebody out of the water twice a week!
So in one week she does 5 minutes work? Sounds like a good job to me, just sitting there in a chair like a sort of Swimming Pool Overlord.