A matrix of pressure sensors with microcontrollers embedded int a standalone mobile floor surface.
Use cases
- Intelligent Automation in Smart Buildings/Homes:
Controlling lights based on a person’s detected position. The system can switch lights on when someone enters an area and switch them off when no presence is detected for energy saving.
Automating air conditioning based on detected presence.
General home automation. - Healthcare:
Elderly people nursing, including fall detection by monitoring irregular signal patterns (e.g., abnormal outputs followed by no outputs).
Monitoring exercises, including identifying the type of exercise, duration, and potentially estimating burned calories.
Personalized healthcare applications enabled by higher-level intelligence. - Security:
Security monitoring in general.
Individual recognition based on walking gait patterns for personalized authentication.
Automatic door access control, granting access to recognized valid users and denying access to others. This can be implemented with privacy protection by only indicating “valid” or “invalid” user status. - Indoor Positioning and Tracking:
Determining a person’s stepping position based on sensor data.
Detecting walking trajectories. - Activity Monitoring:
Distinguishing different types of activities like slow walking, normal walking, fast walking, running, and jumping based on signal magnitude and frequency. - AIoT (Artificial Intelligence of Things):
Serving as a functional interface for diverse AIoT applications in smart buildings/homes.
