A Concept for Continuous Offshore Awareness
at Public Beaches
ShoreVize is developing a solar-powered buoy network that alerts lifeguards, swimmers, and surfers to large marine presence—and can evolve into a broader beach-safety intelligence platform.
Continuous Coastal Awareness
Shark detection
Coastal communities face a persistent visibility gap between open water and the shoreline. Most existing approaches rely on aerial patrols, tagged animal tracking, or reactive beach closures after a sighting, offering limited coverage and often detecting marine activity only after it has already entered swim areas.
ShoreVize introduces a distributed buoy network anchored to discrete seabed stations and paired with synchronized shore‑side lights that mirror each buoy’s status. Each buoy functions as an independent monitoring node within a coordinated array, creating overlapping detection zones for large marine life in designated swim corridors—even beyond staffed beach hours. When large marine presence is detected, the buoy shifts from green to red and sends a zone‑specific alert to both a shore‑based monitoring interface and the linked shoreline light stack. From the water, surfers and swimmers see the same simple green/red signal that lifeguards and coastal operators see on their dashboard—clear situational awareness without relying on aircraft patrols, tagging programs, or speculative species identification.
As the platform evolves, ShoreVize is also exploring optional waterproof haptic wristbands. These wearables would translate buoy detections into simple vibration cues, giving children, snorkelers, and casual swimmers a direct prompt to look up, head in, and respond calmly even when shoreline lights are out of view.
Rip‑current awareness
The same ShoreVize infrastructure is designed to support rip‑current risk awareness by continuously sensing local waves and currents in the surf zone. Over time, these data can help lifeguards understand which beach segments are experiencing stronger seaward flows and more hazardous breaking patterns, turning the buoy array into a live “risk map” for nearshore conditions—not just a shark alert line.
ShoreVize also intends to tap into existing rip‑current technologies where they are already in use. At beaches with established webcam‑based AI systems for rip detection, ShoreVize can integrate those camera signals alongside in‑water measurements so lifeguards can monitor both rip‑current risk and shark alerts in a single dashboard. This approach lets coastal operators build on tools they already trust while adding a new layer of in‑water intelligence.
Designed Around Real-World Coastal Operations
ShoreVize is designed to extend visible protection beyond patrolled beaches. Networked buoys and on-shore alert lights are intended to give swimmers and surfers a clear warning signal, with or without lifeguards or wristbands.
Modular Anchor Stations
Each ShoreVize station is designed in two parts: a permanent base buoy that remains fixed in place, and a removable primary buoy that contains the sensing and power systems. This split architecture keeps the installed footprint stable while allowing the active buoy module to be exchanged quickly and cleanly when service is required.
The result is a more refined service model for coastal infrastructure—continuous positioning in the water, fast replacement from a small vessel, and minimal interruption to coverage. It is a modular station design built for reliability, low-maintenance operation, and long-term deployment in real-world marine environments.
See the Dashboard in Action
Explore the key features lifeguards use to monitor the buoy network, respond to alerts, and track live beach conditions.
Real-time live beach map
Active alert visibility by zone
Incident detail and response workflow
Fleet-wide buoy health monitoring
Alert chronology and history
Synced shoreline warning awareness
Zone-Based Alert Monitoring
ShoreVize is designed to provide operators with a live status view of the entire buoy array.
Each buoy reports its operational state in real time. Green indicates normal conditions. Red indicates detected large marine presence within the defined coverage zone.
No species identification.
No predictive modeling.
Clear, immediate awareness.
When a buoy shifts to alert status, the affected zone is instantly visible across the system.
Concept interface walkthrough — not a deployed application.
From Detection to Notification
Presence Detected
Each ShoreVize node is designed to continuously monitor its coverage radius for large marine presence while also sensing local wave and current conditions associated with rip-current risk. When activity or hazardous surf-zone conditions enter the zone, the intended behavior is for the buoy to shift to alert status and relay the signal across the network.
Operator Zone Alert
The dashboard is designed to show the live status of every deployed buoy across the protected swim area. When one enters alert state, the intended design allows operators to instantly see which zone changed and whether response attention is needed for shark activity, elevated rip-current risk, or other hazardous nearshore conditions.
On-Shore Alert Lights
On-shore alert lights are designed to sync directly with the buoy network in real time. From the water, swimmers and surfers can see the same zone status being shown offshore — making them particularly well-suited for unpatrolled beaches and after-hours use at normally patrolled beaches and resorts.
Haptic Notification
Connected wristbands receive the alert signal and initiate vibration.
The notification is private, immediate, and designed to prompt calm exit from the water without requiring a phone or screen.
Contact
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Email
info@shorevize.com