{"id":228280,"date":"2026-06-08T19:37:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T23:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/08\/folly-beach-considers-ai-system-to-monitor-beach-conditions-and-tourism\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T19:45:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T23:45:12","slug":"folly-beach-considers-ai-system-to-monitor-beach-conditions-and-tourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/08\/folly-beach-considers-ai-system-to-monitor-beach-conditions-and-tourism\/","title":{"rendered":"Folly Beach considers AI system to monitor beach conditions and tourism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.live5news.com\/2026\/06\/08\/folly-beach-considers-ai-system-monitor-beach-conditions-tourism\/\">Folly Beach considers AI system to monitor beach conditions and tourism<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.live5news.com\/2026\/06\/08\/folly-beach-considers-ai-system-monitor-beach-conditions-tourism\/\">https:\/\/www.live5news.com\/2026\/06\/08\/folly-beach-considers-ai-system-monitor-beach-conditions-tourism\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-08 19:37:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.live5news.com\">www.live5news.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Folly Beach is exploring the potential use of artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance both environmental protection and tourism planning.<\/li>\n<li>The city council is discussing a $76,500 investment from the beach preservation fund to deploy an AI monitoring system provided by Surfline Coastal Intelligence.<\/li>\n<li>The AI system will have dual applications: monitoring beach erosion for infrastructure planning and quantifying beach usage for tourism and safety.<\/li>\n<li>It will allow the city to count the number of visitors and direct them to less eroded areas, aiding in safety and preserving beach resources.<\/li>\n<li>The system can help bolster arguments for state and federal funding by providing data on visitor numbers and beach health.<\/li>\n<li>If adopted, the AI system will start with five monitoring cameras for a year, with plans to expand if successful.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Folly Beach considers AI system to monitor beach conditions and tourism https:\/\/www.live5news.com\/2026\/06\/08\/folly-beach-considers-ai-system-monitor-beach-conditions-tourism\/ Publish Date: 2026-06-08&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":228281,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/gray-wcsc-prod.gtv-cdn.com\/resizer\/v2\/M6VGEI7XEBDXJC2A6WUIRI6MHE.png?auth=1a9b75d2daec038fbb9b7bd199d15a6e8a2c27cc58da805d40f59b993255e52e&width=1200&height=600&smart=true","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-228280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228280"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":228282,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228280\/revisions\/228282"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}