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Why I built ShoreSense.

The work behind it began long before there was a prototype.

Roshan Saxena

Founder, inventor, and engineer of ShoreSense

I kept coming back to one question: why do we ask people to make fast safety decisions when so much coastal information is scattered across different places?

That question is personal for me. After the loss of my close friend Arunay to a sneaker wave, beach safety was no longer something I could think about from a distance.

Through the Arunay Foundation, I saw how much prevention depends on reaching people early, with information they can actually use. ShoreSense grew from wanting to take that work further.

Beach safety stopped feeling abstract.

Sudden coastal hazards are difficult because the beach can look calm until it is not. Forecasts, cameras, tide data, and lifeguard observations may all describe part of the moment, but they usually live in separate places.

I wanted to know whether those pieces could be read together early enough to help someone decide what to do next.

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One question kept growing.

The path to ShoreSense was not one jump. Each part of the work exposed another piece that was missing.

  1. Prevention

    Help people recognize danger sooner.

    Beach-safety education and rescue access through the Arunay Foundation showed me how much can change when people have practical information before an emergency.

  2. Research

    Understand what the ocean is doing.

    I began studying offshore wave patterns and coastal water-level changes because warning depends on more than what a camera sees in one instant.

  3. ShoreSense

    Bring the whole picture together.

    The next step was connecting shoreline sensing, environmental conditions, computer vision, forecasting, and response tools in one working system.

What would it take to connect the full picture, not just one signal?

That question became ShoreSense. I designed the system so cameras and environmental sensors could work with local computer vision, coastal forecasting, and a human-reviewed response process.

The architecture is described in U.S. Patent Application No. 64/117,500. More importantly, it gave me a way to turn years of beach-safety work and coastal research into something responders could use.

Today

ShoreSense has two active pilots deployed in the Half Moon Bay area.

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