Nowadays, home and office security has become a major concern for home owners and the corporate world. Taking a big leap in developing smart spaces, German scientists at the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam have come up with a pressure-sensing floor dubbed the “GravitySpace” that can sense postures, foot movements and impacts to create an identical like image of what is going on the flooring.
Capable of that identifying users, furniture and postures above the ground, the high resolution pressure-sensitive floor, essentially a set of touch-sensitive furniture and algorithms, makes use of a multitoe infrastructure to trace and evaluate soles to identify foot prints. Made using 6.4 cm thick glass slab, the Gravity Space prototype tracks footprints with an infrared camera and high-resolution video projector, located in an underneath area, to project the video onto the surface. The floor is coated with a rubbery, pressure-sensitive film and enclosed with infrared LEDs to create a figure of the footprint captured by the camera, as soon as a footstep is perceived on the surface.
So, with GravitySpace now you’ll be able to perceive the foot and body postures of the users with the pressure, of their soles, exerted on the floor. For it other than making your homes safer also ensures complete privacy at workspaces, while being completely safe to the people living or working within the space.
Via: Hasso Plattner Institute/ Gizmag
