and reduce pool operating costs

SCORING A DOUBLE VICTORY

HOW AI CAN MAKE SWIMMING SAFER AND REDUCE POOL OPERATING COSTS

Author and photo Omer Bar-Ilan, CEO, Lynxight, www.lynxight.com

Lynxight has developed a next-level pool safety service that couples AI with a pool’s existing cameras to accurately monitor swimmer behavior and detect distressing incidents before they occur. But there’s a halo effect – the same AI can also help pool operators save up to 25 % per year on energy costs.

Swimming pool operators are concerned first and foremost with swimmer safety, and they should be. But they also have an energy problem – up to 40 % of the operating costs of a public or commercial pool costs are caused by air conditioning, water heating, water treatment and other electric- or gas-powered systems. Even though these types of systems should be regulated dynamically – based on actual, real-time facility occupancy – they are typically managed manually according to fixed schedules that are disconnected from actual usage data.

Cost efficiency Deploying AI can provide real-time usage data that can be used to control critical and cost-intensive systems automatically and dynamically, fine tuning pool operations to reduce costs without any impact on swimmer experience. Systems that may be critical to pool operations – air conditioning, water heating, water treatment, ambient lighting, facility maintenance and water activities (such as pool slides and fountains) – are also major drivers of energy consumption if their regulation is static rather than based on actual pool usage and occupancy.

By using a service that integrates AI to help assess and monitor actual pool occupancy, the timing, activation and operation of these costly critical systems can be regulated dynamically based on real-time data, boosting usage when pool occupancy is heaviest and reducing it during off-peak periods.

Complete scene understanding Lynxight is designed as a flexible, affordable and easy-integration pool safety service that connects to existing pool cameras to monitor and analyse swimmer behavior above and below the water, providing lifeguards with complete scene understanding and identifying swimmer distress before it escalates via alerts delivered to a smartwatch. On top of that, Lynxight also provides pool operators with a data-rich dashboard that informs their understanding of pool usage and occupancy in real time.

Because pool occupancy in and around the water affects the amount of energy needed to operate critical systems, the real-time data Lynxight’s AI generates can help pool operators dynamically modulate the operation of energy-dependent systems, which in turn can reduce annual facility energy costs by up to 25 %, on average. Thanks to AI, pool operators can score a double victory by delivering a safer swimming experience for everyone and gaining a double-digit reduction in energy costs for themselves.