Cost Effective Immersive Room with Pressure Sensing Floor

A. Nunes, M. Piedade1, R. Neves
Abstract:
This paper proposes the architecture of a pressure sensing floor divided in rigid tiles. The system is based on a network of flexible pad pressure sensors, used under all tile corners, connected to special local data acquisition circuits. Signals captured by the sensor units are transmitted to a system controller that process, display and store the information received. The proposed architecture was applied in an interactive room with a 64 tiles floor, providing a network weight measuring system that allows detecting, recording and tracking the movement of objects or people over the sensitive area.
The scalable modular network architecture allows the development of cost effective pressure sensing applications in several environments and sensing areas.
Keywords:
weight measuring network, pressure sensitive pads, detection of object movement, interactive rooms
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Event details
IMEKO TC:
TC16
Event name:
Cultivating Metrological Knowledge
Title:
3rd Conference on Pressure Measurement (together with 20th TC3 Conference on Measurement of Force, Mass and Torque & 1st TC22 Conference on Vibration Measurement)
Place:
Merida, MEXICO
Time:
27 November 2007 - 01 December 2007