Patent AU-2018101107-A4 (AU)
Title: Swim-Safe Smart Beaches: Methods, Smartwatch and Smartphone Applications, Systems, Processes and Device for Swimmer Monitoring and Connecting Swimmers to Lifeguards and Families at Beaches to Increase Beach Safety
Inventor: SADLER HAMISH
IPC: G08B21/08
Filed: 2018-08-10
Granted: 2018-09-06
Abstract: Abstract Methods, smartwatch and smartphone applications, systems, processes and device for swimmer monitoring and connecting swimmers to lifeguards and families at beaches to increase beach safety are hereby disclosed under "Swim-Safe Smart Beaches". An incarnation of the invention is proposed as a) Swim-Safe Smart Beach Zones comprising a space around a lifeguard station that has been signed up and registered as a station in the back-end server-side "Swim-Safe Smart Beaches" systems; b) swimmers' smartwatch apps executed on swimmers' self-owned and Internet-connected GPS-enabled smartwatches (e.g. through WiFi or GSM on the smartwatch), monitoring swimmers' GPS location and triggering SOS messages to lifeguards at lifeguard towers or families or friends who are monitoring them, as well as automatically singing users into a beach to be monitored by the relevant lifeguard tower and sending or receiving updates (which may include easy walkie talkie like audio connectivity) from lifeguards or monitoring bodies; c) Swim Safe Smart Beaches Central Monitoring Application for lifeguard towers that facilitates the ultimate monitoring environment with real-time data and insights about the swimmers that are part of the Swim-Safe Smart Beaches network and have checked into a relevant Swim-Safe Smart Beach zone as well as facilitating connectivity to swimmers (e.g. instant messages and walkie talkie like audio messaging); d) an optional lifeguards' smartwatch app for Internet-connected smartwatches used by lifeguards that can facilitate allocation of incidents and lifeguards' navigation to the corresponding location following the assignment of an incident to a lifeguard; e) swimmers' or monitoring body's smartphone apps to securely register swimmers' details in the Swim-Safe Smart Beaches network and provide important details about their health that may be of significance in an emergency (e.g. allergies to medications, current medications, heart conditions etc..), and to receive insights and stats about the real-time state of different beaches based on location preferences (e.g. number of active swimmers, over crowdedness, openness or closures etc..), and to facilitate scanning of QR codes and binding swimmers' identities to rental wearable monitoring devices, and to facilitate real-time monitoring of swimmers who are using Swim-Safe Smart beaches Swimmer's smartwatch apps by family members while facilitating connectivity between them (e.g. instant messaging or walkie talkie like voice connectivity) ; f) optional water-resistant portable wearable wireless devices that can either be bought by swimmers permanently or be rented out from a set of pre registered and pre-configured ones at participating lifeguard stations, providing facilities for monitoring GPS location for swimmers, creating an SOS incident and to inform lifeguards of an incident and receive updates from lifeguards; g) processes to facilitate automated check-in and check-out for swimmers based on GPS locations and automatically adding swimmers' to the monitored swimmers list at relevant lifeguard stations; h) optional seamless and easy rent-and-return processes for optional water resistant portable wearable wireless devices based on scanning QR codes attached to the devices. Smartphone Swimmers' Optional Wireless Water-Proof Swimmer Smartwatch Monitoring Device Always-running GPS Aornitoring& Usernterfam lh conivitaning User Interfacm connediity- Corpnents background service background service Microprocessor Flash Memory "7 Virtion Motor Wireless Transceiver GPS Receiver b Local Database local Database Backlit scrolling LcD Display Swimmer/Monitoring y C Smartphone A pli ion Swimmers' Smartwa Application J Power Button SOS Alarm Trigger Button Optional Lifeguards' Smartwatch Appliatio Publish-subscibe Program inWe-a d Message Broker Itrface (A1s andAplcto Always-running GPS- s monitoring& Userinterface connecivity- Campnents management background service Local Database Identify Provider Scalable [nibas Optional Lifeguards' Smartwatch Application Server-Side Components Figure 1 - High-level view of Swim-Safe Smart Beaches system components