The Challenge

Behind every patrolled beach in Australia sits a long list of operational detail — vehicles, rescue craft, radios, equipment, signage, infrastructure — that surf clubs and lifeguard services have to track, maintain and audit. Doing that on paper, or in scattered spreadsheets across hundreds of clubs, simply doesn't scale.

Surf Life Saving needed a single internal system to manage these assets and the operational data around them: who owns what, where it is, when it was last serviced, and what's ready for the next patrol.

The Solution

Nano Solutions built the Beach Management platform (BM) — a custom Laravel and Vue application used internally by Surf Life Saving to capture, manage and report on beachside assets and operations.

The platform sits alongside the public-facing SLSA BeachSafe site and the field-based SLSA Operations App, forming a complete ecosystem: one for the public, one for patrols on the beach, and one for the people running the operation behind the scenes.

What it does

Object and asset management — structured records for every category of equipment and infrastructure
Operational data captured against locations, clubs and services
Importable taxonomies so the data model can evolve as Surf Life Saving's needs change
Reporting built for state and national-level oversight
Mobile companion — a Capacitor-based mobile shell so field teams can work on the same data from a phone or tablet

Built for reliability

This is software that supports real beach operations, so it's built like it. Continuous integration on every change, automated end-to-end testing with Cypress, visual regression testing through Percy.io, and Docker-based deployments — so updates ship safely and predictably.

The Results

A unified internal platform for managing the operational side of Surf Life Saving's beach footprint
Part of a long-running engagement with Surf Life Saving — Nano Solutions has been building, evolving and operating SLS systems for over a decade
Field and office on the same data through the web platform plus its mobile companion
Quality-engineered with automated tests, visual regression, and CI on every commit

Technology

Laravel backend with a Vue.js frontend, packaged with Docker and deployed through GitLab CI. Cypress for end-to-end testing, Percy.io for visual regression. Mobile companion built on Capacitor so the same codebase runs as a native iOS and Android app for field teams.

See also: SLSA BeachSafe — the public face of Surf Life Saving Australia's beach data, and SLSA Operations App — the field tool used by patrols.

Related Nano Solutions services: Systems Integration · App Security. WA government agencies can engage us directly through our CUAICTS2021 panel listing.