Robots to the rescue: The German swimming pool testing AI lifeguards

Shahabeddin Khatibi, a pool attendant, stands under an AI camera in the Kleinfeldchen indoor pool. The indoor pool uses the Lynxight monitoring system, which uses cameras and artificial intelligence to detect if someone is drowning. — dpaWhen people drown, there is rarely a lot of splashing and screaming, despite what films show.One German swimming pool is testing a monitoring system using artificial intelligence to try and save swimmers’ lives.

“The cameras detect movements in the water and record a movement profile that is analysed using AI,” says Thomas Baum, operations manager at Mattiaqua, the regional pool operator. The costs vary depending on the size of the pool and the number of cameras, but for the current pool, the cost is around US$32,000 to US$42,000 per year, says Baum.

Swimming supervision also benefits from the operation. “The system is our third eye. Especially when there are 4,000 to 6,000 guests in the pool at once in summer, it helps us a lot to keep an overview,” says swimming supervisor Khatibi. Those concerned about data protection, meanwhile need not worry as the cameras only recognise peoples’ outlines.In addition to the system used in Wiesbaden, manufacturers also offer AI systems with cameras in the pools.

Meanwhile the nearby city of Darmstadt also plans to buy an AI system in the Nordbad in the course of the year, a spokesperson says.In Fulda, also in Hesse, no such systems are yet in use at the city’s three municipal outdoor and indoor swimming pools, operator RhönEnergie Fulda told dpa.

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