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A smart floor greatly enhances the personal safety of the elderly or handicapped.
The sensor signals (on the right) are triggered by a person lying on the floor, as shown in the picture
(on the left). In other words, if a person falls and does not get up again, the SensFloor® will
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SensFloor®
We spend most of our waking lives in direct contact with floor coverings.
This fact is used by our smart floor. SensFloor® is a textile-based underlay with
integrated microelectronics and proximity sensors that can be laid under practically any kind
of floor covering. Whenever a person walks across the floor, the integrated sensors are activated
and a sequence of location- and timespecific sensor events is sent to a central control unit. With
the aid of pattern recognition and further data processing, these signals can be used to identify
various different types of events. Footsteps that begin at a window, for example, indicate there
has been a break-in. Automatic doors, for example, can be controlled more intelligently than is now
the case, as they will open only when someone is actually approaching, but will remain closed if
someone is merely standing in front of them or walking past.
SensFloor® can even provide more safety and comfort for elderly people at home or in institutionalized
care: Falls can be spotted almost instantly and emergency services summoned if the person who has
fallen fails to get up again. If there is an unusually long period of inactivity detected a carer
can be alerted to prevent, that a person who has suffered a stroke in bed, for example, is left
unattended for too long. In this way a smart floor can help people to live a safe and independent
life as long as possible, making it a prime example for ambient asstisted living.
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