Surveillance Consulting and Software for Beach Safety
“Cameras don’t save lives or prevent drowning, lifeguards do.” We hear this a lot in areas were beach safety cameras are a new concept. After working with lifeguards in multiple countries we agree. PWCs and boats don’t pull people from the water, lifeguards do. We believe the vessel is just a valuable tool.
We started our efforts at CoastalCOMS with a goal to make our smart camera systems and risk assessment tools the software/IT equivalent of the PWC for lifeguarding: a valuable tool to assist in drowning or injury prevention.
Our Beach Hazard and Risk Assessment software is designed specifically for lifeguard risk management frameworks and works with enterprise security software to identify hazards in real-time in support of calculating risk in beach environments. We rely on video cameras to run our software, and have compiled experience over the years working with cameras in harsh beach climates around the world.
Components of beach risk we can detect from video include:
- Wave Height and Period Identification live from video, so you can be aware of changing wave conditions throughout your area of operation in a single hazard dashboard – in real time.
- People Counting to understand when the bus drops 100’s of tourists on your beach, and pattern tourism/visit rates for better resource allocation and budgeting over time.
- Shoreline Tracking that allows planning based on the changing morphology of your beach.
- Mobile Incident Reporting gather information as it happens, and match it against video for a more automated and detailed analysis of activites.
- Hazard and Risk Software that allows you to feed the information above into a system to produce reporting for partner agencies interested in long term trend analysis and safety program management and messaging.
