Intelligent Swimming-pool design with Embedded Drown Alerting, Preventing and Autonomous Rescue System

Swimming is a wonderful sport and it helps in maintaining both body and mental fitness Though swimming has so many advantages, it has become a major reason behind several unintentional fatal accidents and is taking millions of innocent lives needlessly around the world. The ubiquity of drowning was much higher than they appear as reported by World Health Organization or several government statistics, leading to great negligence of this ever-increasing threat. The present paper shows a technological multi layer solution to this problem with the help of novel algorithm and available technology. The framework is a combination of an elevator housing array of Proximity-sensors, Laser-trip wire modules, pull switches on sidewalls of the pool, to detect any human body lying on the bottom surface of the pool, a drain-motor, alerting lights and buzzer, and keeping the elevator assembly on top of the swimming pool in non-operational timings of the pool preventing accidental falls of children or pets in the pool. Several other forms of alerting methods like a loudspeaker outside the pool, color lights around the pool upper walls were also added to the system to predict the alert occurrence of a drowning accident and seek immediate rescue. The system also possesses a power-on self-test to assure safety. The proposed system is implemented in a miniature form. The performance of the prototype is satisfactory and giving promising results.