Poolview Plus+ - Simply the best for "Blended Lifeguarding"
2018 -Starting off with a bang!
Today sees the start of a series of four Poolview Plus+ installations in England.
With two teams working in parallel throughout the length and breadth of the country we will have everyone operational before the end of the month.
Poolview Plus+ - taking Blended Lifeguarding to a new level
Absolutely delighted to have installed our latest Poolview Plus+ computer intelligent system for the detection of possible drowning incidents in Mayfair, London.
Poolview Plus+™ and SwimEye™ developed artificial intelligence operates software in the background and supports the fully trained Lifeguard and first responders with their responsibilities
Poolview Plus+™ will "track" each swimmer and continuously monitor their activity until such time as it detects a "possible incident" developing.
At this point Poolview Plus+™ technology alerts the Lifeguard/First Responder to the "unusual swimmer behaviour", whereupon they can then take any appropriate action required.
Robin McGloughlin at 3800 metres
Over the past 18 months our Business Director - Robin McGloughlin has been participating in a number of events to raise funds for his local hospice.
Poolview Ltd were proud to contribute to his fundraising efforts and presented him with a cheque for the Southern Area Hospice a few weeks before he left on his final challenge of trekking in the Indian Himalayas, finally getting to an altitude of 3800m
Well done Robin!
Poolview Director Robin McGloughlin with Banbridge RFC President Robbie Ervine
Over the past 12 months Banbridge Rugby Club have been helping their Club Media Officer and Poolview Director Robin McGloughlin raise funds for the Southern Area Hospice.
Including club raffles, music nights, collection boxes and dedicated Hospice funds raising days (to name but a few) the Senior Club, Junior Club, Ladies Committee, Players, Members and Visitors have contributed a total of £2500 to the local Hospice.
Thanks go to every single person who contributed in any way shape or form - your support is very much needed and appreciated.
Robin McGloughlin explaining Blended Lifeguarding
One of the services which we regularly undertake is staff training with particluar reference to the technique of "Blended Lifeguarding".
The training session is very hard hitting and covers much about how and why "things go wrong".
Here we see our Business Director delivering training to Lifeguards, Trainer Assessors and Managers at a Places for People facility.
Great to see this article featured in the June issue of the UK Pool and Spa Scene publication, reporting on the seminar we participated in at this years Elevate event in London's Excel
Speakers at the Maximising Aquatics Revenue were, from left to right, Alyson Zell, Aquatic Business Manager at Freedom Leisure, Helen Meckiffe of Pfp Leisure, Robin McGloughlin of Poolview Ltd, Martin Symcox, Director of IQL UK and Water Safety Management at Royal Life Saving Society UK and Nicole O’Callaghan, Business Development Director at JC Leisure.
Lively, well-attended seminars at this year’s Elevate show at London’s Excel included a thought-provoking talk by ‘blended’ lifeguarding specialists, Poolview, on balancing the role of technology for the benefit of staff and users of public swimming pools. A self-confessed ‘early adopter’ Robin McGloughlin of Poolview said it has taken many years of knocking on doors for ‘below water’ technology to become an overnight success. “In 2011, we installed two Poolview systems, followed by three in 2012 and eight in 2013,” Robin told Elevate17 delegates. “In 2017, we will hit 52 installs; that is the equivalent of one installation every week.” Having been involved in a tragic incident while working at a pool in his native Ireland, Robin has been a trailblazer for the introduction of assisted technology to support lifeguards. “One of my aims is to prevent the crap that I went through with an incident that still lives with me today,” Robin shared. “My job is not to get rid of lifeguards, the technology I am working with is to help lifeguards.
MODERN LIFEGUARDING: “We need to change our attitudes to using technology to support modern lifeguarding.” Quoting HSG179 guidelines, Robin laid out the four main options for drowning prevention management as:
1. Wearable technology including wristbands
2. CCTV technology with below water cameras
3. Computer intelligent technology with below water cameras and alerts
4. Doing nothing
“Technology is here to stay,” Robin said. “It will get better and better; costs will come down and safety will get better and better as a result,” he added urging public pool operators to take technology on board. Helen Meckiffe works for a multi-venue leisure operator, that has integrated Poolview into many of its pools. “We would all welcome the opportunity to sit down with architects, designers and clients to influence the way pools are being built,” Helen told delegates. “But the truth is that the ideal pool just does not exist. “Pools come in all shapes and sizes with hazards such as window glare, down lighting and free form areas.
NEUTRALISING HAZARDS : “What Poolview provides does is neutralise those hazards offering 100% visibility whatever the conditions,” she continued. “I am an advocate of lifeguard, I am not saying get rid of lifeguards but Poolview allows you to be a little bit more creative as regards programming,” “Poolview won’t raise an alarm, call an ambulance or rescue someone from a pool,” she added. “But you could reduce your lifeguarding resource, for programmes such as an aqua exercise class; where you can reasonably cut down to one lifeguard in addition to the instructor because you have additional control measures.” Helen recalled a recent incident when a swimmer at one of her pools suffered a seizure while in the water. “Having read witness statements with a critical eye, the Poolview system not only endorsed what had been said but showed the lifeguards had done even more than they remembered,” emphasised Helen who supports the Pool View system that she believes has a significant role to play in the recruitment and retention of modern lifeguards. Helen and Robin were taking part in one of the seminars organised as part of Elevate at London’s Excel arena, The full Elevate 2017 programme is divided into four seminar streams which take place in the gallery rooms, and three presentation areas on the exhibition floor.
A cluster of water leisure exhibitors at this year’s Elevate included swimming merchandise specialists SRS Leisure.
MAXIMISING REVENUE : Damian Stevenson, Insight and Partnerships Director at Swim England (formerly ASA) chaired the presentation on Maximising Aquatics Revenue – increasing usage and managing costs. This seminar will explored how to successfully implement and market innovative aquatics programming for a range of users and provides a great experience for swimmers, while examining maintenance strategies and cost savings. Swimming is the most popular participation sport, with over 2.5 million adults swimming weekly, yet swimming pools across the nation are not being used to their full potential. Pools are expensive to maintain, manage, staff and program, therefore optimising pool usage and cost saving strategies are vital. Damian’s team have been fundamental in rolling out behavioural insights that have led to the development of enhanced customer experiences across many parts of the aquatics sector.
These experiences are designed to build a strong sense of achievement and satisfaction amongst existing swimmers, whilst encouraging ‘non-swimmers’ to re-discover their love of splashing about in water! Alyson Zell, Aquatic Business Manager at Freedom Leisure picked up the baton with an insight into optimising pool usage across 42 pools – through innovative programming, marketing and customer experience There was also a talk by Martin Symcox, Director of IQL UK and Water Safety Management at Royal Life Saving Society UK while Nicole O’Callaghan, Business Development Director at JC Leisure urged pool operators to focus on effective maintenance strategies – planned maintenance, energy management and staff training.
Robin McGloughlin and Helen Meckiffe receiving the "Best facility Innovation" Award at Elevate
At this years Elevate in London's ExCel Arena we were thrilled and delighted to be told that our Poolview Plus+ received the prize for Best Facility Innovation, which was hailed as an "innovative use of technology" by one judge!
BEST FACILITY INNOVATION:
Poolview Limited and SwimEye™ have collaborated and produced the worlds first proactive AND reactive computer intelligent system for the detection of possible drowning incidents in swimming pools.
We have called it Poolview plus+ and by using our tried and tested Poolview architecture, the lifeguards still have a monitor attached to their chair which displays the images from the eight carefully positioned underwater cameras, providing 100% below water coverage.
SwimEye™ developed artificial intelligence operates software in the background and supports the fully trained Lifeguard with their responsibilities Poolview Plus will "track" each swimmer and continuously monitor their activity until such time as it detects a "possible drowning" developing.
At this point our technology alerts the Lifeguard to the "unusual swimmer behaviour".
This information is relayed directly to Lifeguard via their Monitor.
The Lifeguard has then two options:- acknowledge and disarm the alarm acknowledge and escalate the alarm - which initiates the Emergency Action Plan and the swimmer is "rescued".
Thus - in the situation when a Lifeguard "misses" a developing incident - their "co-worker" Poolview plus+ will back them up and draw their attention to a camera view and the relevant swimmer.
Poolview Plus provides an additional layer of protection for swimmers - assists lifeguards with their duties and never switches off Poolview plus+ increases efficiencies for management but most importantly supports lifeguards in their difficult role.
What a fantastic few days in the magnificent ExCel Arena at Elevate in London, the UK's largest cross-sector leisure event, bringing together the physical activity sector, academia, healthcare, policy makers, local authorities and performance experts.
Great to be there with a fine knowledgable team. Helen Meckiffe, Robin Mitchell (Pioneering Pool Solutions) and Martin Wessman (SenTag) all topped off by winning the "Best Facility Innovation" award for our Poolview Plus+ System.
New friends, new clients, new prospects - opening up further the drive for "Blended Lifeguarding"
On Wednesday 10th May our Business Director - Robin McGloughlin will be speaking at Elevate 2017 - the UK's largest cross-sector event bringing together the physical activity sector, academia, healthcare, policy makers, local authorities and performance experts.
The seminar title is - Maximising aquatics revenues - increasing usage and managing costs.
His presentation will be incorporated within the "Drowning prevention strategies and the latest technologies" section.
We are at stand 154
If you are are attending Elevate at ExCel in London - please do call to the stand for a chat
It's good from time to time to post something that is not about a swimming pool, an installation or bad news.
This is a good news story within a local community. For the 2016-17 season Poolview have sponsored the shirts of Banbridge Rugby Clubs U16 team. The U16's have had a tough season, but without doubt (in my opinion) the most improved team of the season so far.
The dedication everyone have shown in getting out to training and sticking with it is starting to shine through. These lads are now a team - a proper team of players who have stuck together through thick and thin - no longer 15 individuals on the park.
We done lads - keep with it!
The start of 2017 brought another incremental step within the growth history and success of Poolview Limited.
We have not only added to our fleet of vehicles, but now have employed an additional full time Poolview Engineer to drive this little beauty around the UK, helping to ensure that our after-care service remains at the highest level and matches our partners expectations.
Exciting times!
Just completed a very successful series of site visits in Scotland, building up our network of installations and helping to pave the way for future projects throughout the region.
Fantastic new community pool - not quite ready for the public.
Looking forward to returning next month to present Poolview to an influential network of Leisure Safety Managers within the Central belt.
Whilst in Stuttgart we met up with our SenTag partners on their stand to see the latest system upgrades and configurations which has just been released.
Directors of SenTag and Poolview Ltd at interbad in Stuttgart
SenTag acts as a layer of pool security either with or without patrolling lifeguards. The SenTAG security wristband continuously monitors depth and time for every swimmer and alerts if preset thresholds are exceeded.
The SENTAG Wristband monitors time and pressure for each user. Wristbands are set to a depth and time at which the alarm is raised. If the user should spend too much time under the pre-set depth an alarm is raised by signal from wristband to the SENTAG control unit.
The lifeguard receives an alarm that indicates which pool area that needs attention.
In this way the SENTAG wristband emulates the supervision of a lifeguard who should be naturally concerned if a swimmer stays too long beneath the surface.
We have just returned from our visit to interbad which is an international event on the theme of both public and private swimming pools, saunas and spas. Visitors and exhibitors included operators of swimming pools, hotels, fitness centres, spas and sports facilities, as well as investors, architects and planners from swimming pool manufacture and retail.
At interbad, there were nearly 450 exhibitors from Germany and abroad and visitors from around 64 countries, which included operators, swimming pool manufacturers and retailers, hoteliers, architects, planners and private constructors. This meeting point for thesector makes it possible to experience new products and features at the trade fair stands.
As specialist visitors and Drowning Prevention experts we take part in parallel discussions on current trends and discussing standards for the industry.
Every once in a while we get an opportunity to discuss and present Poolview to clients NOT based in a Council Office, Leisure Centre or Head Office. This was one of those occassions!
High on the 32nd floor we got to present and interact with architects, planners, builders and leisure operaters who wanted to ensure that they had all the facts on "Drowning Prevention Technology", what was available and most importantly to be able to select the BEST and most appropriate solution for their new build pools.
A very worthwhile day and new relationships forged
Robin McGloughlin is taking on a huge multi event challenge raising money for the Southern Area Hospice. He’s set a truly audacious goal of competing in a minimum of 5 events and races before September 2017 by which time he hopes to have raised £4000 for this worthwhile charity.
First Challenge was completed on 17th May 2016
Southern Area Hospice Services (SAHS) provides invaluable support and care to people living within the Southern Health Board Area, who are suffering from Cancer, Multiple Sclerosis, Motor Neurone Disease and AIDS. Their aim is to provide the best quality of life for the patients and their families.
Robin McGloughlin, Business Development Director of Poolview said “it's all about trying to give a little back and much like the ethos of our own company - make a difference. The training and preparation has been a challenge, but taken me on my own journey of discovery - I’ve managed to clock close to 7500 miles in the last 12 months and have burnt 150,000 calories!.”
The events Robin has signed up for include:
. Andratx to Porto Pollenca 115km with 2,425m of climbing - completed 17th May 2016
· Gran Fondo Giro D’Italia Northern Ireland 2016, 5 June 2016 - 175KM cycle
· The Mourne Seven Sevens Challenge
· The Giant’s Causeway Coast Sportive, Saturday 10th September 2016 182km cycle
· Dalai Lama Trek 3 Nov 2016 - 13 Nov 2016
Poolview are the UK's leading manufacturer, supplier and installer of safer swimmer systems for swimming pools with their Business Development Director and Co-Founder, Robin based over in Banbridge, Co.Down.
If you would like to support Robin reach his goal of raising £4000 for the Southern Area Hospice by September 2017 please follow the link below to donate.
5 Challenges for the Southern Area Hospice
For further information see www.poolview.co.uk.
Our MD Paul Brown is currently in China on a fact finding mission - whilst in Beijing he couldn't pass the opportunity to go and have a look around the iconic Beijing National Aquatics Centre.
Poolview would work well in there!
Beijing National Aquatics Centre
It is not often that the three of us get the chance to travel together as we are normally scattered separately around the UK - so it was great to bring the team together in Stavanger, Norway to meet up again with our SwimEye™ partners.
Chris Day, Paul Brown and Robin McGloughlin
Lovely morning to conduct a site survey in Kent for Poolview. This was one of four bodies of water we surveyed at this facility for a future Poolview Safer Swimmer install. Some glare issues, some areas that management would like to have available for use more often - Poolview will provide "Additional Essential Vision" to Lifeguards
Some great messaging coming over loud and clear during our interview with BBC radio Bristol last week around "Additional Essential Vision" for Lifeguards #saferswimmingsystems #poolsafety #radiostar
