Device aims to detect potential distress in pools
System named in honour of two 10-year-old girls
An Israeli company has designed a system that could help prevent pool drownings.
Eyal Golan, an entrepreneur and homeland security expert, joined forces with Dr. Tamar Avraham, a computer vision specialist, in 2014 to establish Coral Drowning Detection Systems. Their Coral Manta system is the first of its kind, promising to detect movement in private pools using an underwater video camera, computer vision and artificial intelligence technology. If it identifies a possible drowning situation, it will sound a loud alarm and send a smartphone alert to all household members.
“When we started developing Coral Manta, we had three major principles in mind,” Golan told The Jerusalem Post. “It has to be affordable, it has to be very reliable and precise in detecting real events, and it has to be a plug-and-play system. All you have to do is mount two screws on the corner of the pool and the system is stable and safe.”
The Coral Manta is priced at $2,000 and is available through the company’s website.