Veolia Water Technologies by GineersNow Engineering Magazine GineersNow Engineering Magazine September 2016 | Page 33

THE KIDS ARE SAFER THAN
EVER IN POOLS WITH THIS
WEARABLE WARNING DEVICE
It’s summer. When the kids are
out in the swimming pools by
themselves with the guardians
dry, it’s important that they stay
afloat and enjoy their swim.
There is a lifeguard, of course,
but one can never be too sure as
sometimes swimming pools are
too crowded and kids drowning
can sometimes be noticed.
To answer this problem, a
wearable device called SEAL
Swim Safe has been developed.
It works as a band worn on the
neck, and sends off signals to
a hub. The hub will sound off if
the child wearing the band is
submerged in the water for too
long, so rescue could immediately
be on the way when something
might be wrong.
Photo by SEALSwimSafe
The device has an alarm that can
be set according to the level of
the child’s swimming abilities.
Novice to expert swimmers can
wear the band and adjust to
whether how long they can stay
underwater. Parents with the
hub would have to be ‘several
hundred feet’ away from the kids
at most so the signal can be sent.
In a tweet, SEAL Swim Safe called
itself to be ‘the only wearable
technology designed to help
prevent drowning and drowning
injury.’ It is also the first-ever
portable swim monitoring and
drowning detection system,
which started as a crowdsourcing
effort in IndieGogo in 2013.
Photo by Raleighmag
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