'Clever Buoys' to patrol Aussie beaches to keep visitors safe from sharks
A state government in Australia has gone high-tech as New South Wales is setting up helicopters, drones, and sonar this summer to protect beachgoers from sharks. Niall Blair, Minister for Primary Industries formally announces at Sydney's Coogee Beach on Sunday the world first shark-detecting technology worth AUD 16 million, intended to protect surfers and swimmers.
It includes "Clever Buoys" - a mobile app that can assess the size of an object and its swimming pattern, in turn indicating shark presence, The app, in turn, transmits data to lifesavers, personnel, or other authorities on land. Blair also announced that the government would be launching research initiatives in the University of Technology Sydney to assess the technology's efficacy, Yahoo has reported.
In his statement, the information and data that will be gathered will help them understand the advanced technology and give NSW beachgoers preeminent protection. They're trailing sonar and as well as other advanced technologies including the drones, listening stations, and drumlines.
A four-week trial will be conducted where a buoy will be stationed at Port Stephens offshore; there will be underwater cameras that will record the footage, which will be compared to the shark data gathered by Clever Buoys to affirm its accuracy.
William Gladstone, a UTS marine biologist says that if the new technology works the government can deploy a number of the technology to cover the beach entrance with the sonar beam. Then it transcends the message to the lifeguard if a shark enters and determine what to do.
An eight-weeks test trial will follow at Bondi, the most famous beach in Sydney. A Shark Mitigation Systems where the Clever Buoys able to pick up the apparition of any sharks that previously tagged and caught by the government, according to Mashable.
In 2015, the Austrailian Shark Attack File has 13 cases of unprovoked shark attacks have been recorded in NSW with one fatality and in 2014 there are only three cases.
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