As parents, there is nothing we wouldn’t do to protect our children from harm. We make sure they use their car seats, we teach them not to walk into oncoming traffic, and we tell them not to talk to strangers. Some dangers, however, we don’t even see coming…
The pools are so much fun for kids and adults to play in. In the summer my kids never seem to want to get out of the pool, they spend hours playing and having fun. Although the older children are experienced swimmers, the younger children are just beginners and I was constantly worried that they would swim on their own, even when I was supervising their play. I would constantly catch them trying to sneak out of the house undetected and trying to go swimming on their own even though they knew the pool was off limits without an adult supervising them.
Although I was certain that they would not actually enter the pool without me there, I decided to make sure by installing an electromagnetic monitoring system in the pool. I’m not an electronics expert, but luckily the product was easy to connect. I simply chose a place to put the lightweight electromagnetic system on the pool deck and installed the remote receiver in my house. I was also pleased that the unit was portable so it was easy to move around in case I needed to find a more stable location on the pool deck.
A few uneventful weeks passed until the night the older kids went to a friend’s house for the night. After dark, I was upstairs getting ready for bed when I suddenly heard a loud, pulsing alarm coming from the remote receiver in my house.
I ran outside to find my youngest son, Mike, struggling to get his head out of the water. I jumped up and pulled it out. He explained to me that he had dropped his ball in the water and when he bent to retrieve it, he lost his balance and fell. At just 6 years old, Mike couldn’t get out of the deep water without help. If he had called for help, would you have heard him from the second floor? Could his older brother have run up the stairs and reached me in time? I don’t even like to think about what would have happened if the alarm system hadn’t been installed.
After doing some research on drowning accidents, I was even more relieved to have installed the pool alarm. [http://www.familydefense4u.com/poolalarm.htm]. Each year, more than 900 children under the age of 14 die from drowning accidents and drowning is a common cause of accidental death in children. Pets can also fall into a pool without supervision and a pool guard will detect an animal fall. The remote receiver can even work up to 200 feet from the pool.
From my experience, I believe that an electromagnetic pool system is one of the best ways to ensure that children do not enter a pool unsupervised. This device provides valuable protection for anywhere children can access swimming pools. Parents can use this to make sure their kids are safe, or a neighbor’s kid or pet doesn’t wander into their pool and get hurt. Businesses such as day care centers and youth centers may also use an electromagnetic monitoring system to ensure that accidents do not occur.