A smart beach is a beach that incorporates technologies such as AI (Artificial Intelligence), automatic drowning detection, riptide detection, wireless communications, sensing, and metasensing (the sensing of sensing) often combining aspects of these three purposes: (1) water safety, e.g. accident reduction, (2) public safety, e.g. crime reduction, and (3) operational efficiency, e.g. allocation of lifeguard resources, promotion of tourism (providing remote views of the beach, etc.
[7] Many of these systems use smart city technology applied to beach life, combined with smartphone apps.
[8][9][10] Water safety: Water safety is often provided through automated drowning detection technologies[11] such as automatic riptide detection, automatic drowning detection, or other related systems.
Public safety: is achieved through enhanced radio communications, wireless communications, warning lights, live video surveillance, and other sensors.
Operational efficiency: Allocation of lifeguard resources is improved which makes the beach management run more efficiently.