Send the Asian Games a black technology|AI pool to prevent drowning, I obtained a US patent

Opening remarks:

Digital people light the torch, the opening ceremony floor screen and stereoscopic perspective network are combined, glasses-free 3D visual effects and virtual images run throughout, and hundreds of thousands of staff and volunteers can collaborate online through one app. Robotic dogs are warming up athletes, and horse farm management is also using digital twins...

It is not so much that Hangzhou stepped onto the world stage because of the Asian Games, but that Hangzhou's vigorous scientific and technological creativity has amazed the world. The dreams and vitality brought by science and technology have become musical notes flowing in the veins of Hangzhou, stirring up a lake that has been around for thousands of years. And behind this scientific and technological power, is a big factory? University? Or a scientific institution?

Probably neither. It's them.

The sweaty guy who jogged with you by the Qiantang River, the young mother who chatted with you about parenting. They may be the leaders of high-tech enterprises or the holders of high-tech intellectual property rights.

They are, young entrepreneurs. Full of passion, dreams...

Today, Persimmon Finance approached a group of young entrepreneurs, who not only made their own contribution to the Smart Asian Games, but also sent a ticket to the future for a better life. Today is the first issue, she is from Tonglu, Hangzhou.

Narrator: Xie Xin

Today, I saw the report that the Asian Games swimming event ended, and the Chinese swimming team won 28 golds, setting the best result in the history of the Asian Games. I'm so happy for our swimmers and proud to think that they've won such great results in the pool where I used to check, survey and debug equipment every day.

The AI (artificial intelligence) drowning prevention system designed and implemented by my team and I is actually applied in the swimming pool of the Huanglong Sports Center.

This system captures the posture of the person during swimming in real time through the camera, and determines whether there is drowning by identifying the posture and shadow of the swimmer. Our camera is mounted on top and determined by artificial intelligence algorithms. When a dangerous situation is found, the system will alarm on the PAD of the inspection, and will also alert the safety officer through the vibration of the safety officer's watch. Basically, our system sets a sensitivity according to the requirements of the pool management, and the number of reminders in a day is almost ten times.

The first reason why I came up with the idea of doing this project was because I felt the need. Nearly 57,000 people die from drowning accidents in China every year, and if through our system, not to say all of them, even if we can save 10,000 or 20,000 more, I think this is a very meaningful thing. In addition, it is very difficult to prevent drowning by safety officers alone. He sits there facing a big field, sitting for a day will be a little boring, the water surface is still reflective, a sparkling water, looking at it for a long time will be sleepy. I also saw reports before that some managers went to the toilet with stomach pain, and as a result, a drowning accident occurred.

Making an anti-drowning system requires a lot of investment and research and development, but in fact, I don't know what the market return is, and I don't know the direction of the market, but I think this thing is very meaningful, so I firmly do it. We specifically researched the global drowning prevention system, and many countries have a chip on the cap or a bracelet, but these can easily be lost. Some countries will install a camera underwater, etc., but this still depends on the human eye.

I asked a friend who is Amazon's Chinese chief scientist, a graduate of Zhejiang University, and a leading figure in the global artificial intelligence industry. He has always wanted to contribute to the development of the country, and after I told him about it, he was very supportive. The idea of placing the camera on the top of the pool for gesture learning was also proposed by him. Our is not a big language model, it is more like a relatively small model in a niche industry. Our model received a U.S. patent this year after three years of deep learning. The review of US invention patents is very strict, and their authorization actually affirms our global innovation and uniqueness in this field.

Now many swimming pools in Hangzhou have our system, such as the swimming pool of Huanglong Sports Center, West Lake Cultural and Sports Center, Rhine Stadium, Renmin University High School, Ali Sports Center, Shangcheng Cultural and Sports Center, etc.

Our drowning prevention system cannot actually be regarded as officially entering the Asian Games, because of some factors, the system is closed when athletes compete. But at the Tonglu Equestrian Center, my team and I built a virtual horse farm through digital twin technology. With just a few clicks, you can know the health of the horses, the stock of feed, etc. All aspects of its data are uploaded to this digital platform. This digital twin of the virtual arena can actually be used for many future events, not just equestrian centers.

To be honest, AI may be a general-purpose technology, I just applied it to the sports scene, and there will definitely be many extensions in the future. The drowning prevention system has been docked with me in many swimming pools across the country, including in Sichuan, Shandong, and Shanghai. Spreading it nationwide is not just a business practice, but in my opinion, it is something meaningful to society.

When I was a graduate student at Chinese University in Hong Kong, I used to go to the stadium to watch games. The utilization rate of stadiums in Hong Kong is very high, and the enthusiasm of ordinary people for sports is very high. The moment of watching the game touched me, and I wanted sports to be closer to our lives, which became the starting point for my business. In 2017, my company was officially established, and I also began to officially enter the smart sports industry. My vision now is to make sports happier through technology empowerment and AI leadership.