A quiet Northern California shoreline just after sunrise

Built from a need for earlier warning.

Behind ShoreSense is a longer effort to understand why coastal hazards remain difficult to anticipate and how technology can help trained responders see risk sooner.

The work grew from the loss of Arunay to a sneaker wave and the beach-safety work that followed through the Arunay Foundation. That experience made the gap between knowing that the ocean is dangerous and recognizing a specific moment of danger impossible to ignore.

ShoreSense began with a question: what would it take to connect what the shoreline is doing, where people are, and how rescue resources can respond?

The problem is larger than any single hazard.

Beach-safety information is usually split across weather forecasts, tide stations, cameras, lifeguard observations, water-quality systems, and emergency-response tools. Each can be useful. Few are designed to understand the interaction among them.

A swimmer moving offshore matters differently when visibility is poor, rescue coverage is distant, a channel is forming, and wave conditions are changing. ShoreSense was built around those relationships.

From beach safety work to a complete coastal system.

Awareness

Understanding how suddenly coastal conditions can become dangerous.

Prevention

Working on beach-safety education and access to rescue resources.

Research

Studying whether offshore wave spectra contain transferable information about coastal water-level oscillations.

ShoreSense

Integrating physical sensing, computer vision, prediction, and response coordination in one prototype.

Earlier warning is not one sensor or one model. It is the ability to understand a changing shoreline quickly enough to act.

ShoreSense was founded and engineered by Roshan Saxena as an effort to connect coastal science with practical public-safety decisions.

Explore the technology.

See how coastal sensing, edge intelligence, a littoral digital twin, and response coordination work together.

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Read the research.

Explore the spectral-index study that informs ShoreSense’s environmental-intelligence layer.

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