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The SensFloor® is a textile-based large-area sensor system which is installed as an underlay underneath the flooring. It detects people moving across the floor, calculates their trajectories and distinguishes between foot steps and a fall. The use of capacitive proximity sensing instead of pressure sensing gives high flexibility in floor design. Besides elastic flooring like carpet and PVC, even non-elastic flooring like parquet or laminate is suitable. The SensFloor System enables a variety of different applications in the domain of Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) like fall detection, activity monitoring, energy savings, control of automatic doors, intrusion alarm and access control. Presence detection and self-test capabilities are additional features valuable in particular for security applications.
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Lauterbach, C., Steinhage, A., Techmer, A. (2013). A Large-Area Sensor System Underneath the Floor for Ambient Assisted Living Applications. In: Mukhopadhyay, S., Postolache, O. (eds) Pervasive and Mobile Sensing and Computing for Healthcare. Smart Sensors, Measurement and Instrumentation, vol 2. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32538-0_3
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