Smart floors: A new way to track you is coming soon

Event coordinators will soon have a better way of gauging the success of their programs, thanks to a revolutionary smart floor developed by Swiss startup Technis. The innovative technology, which is based on research conducted at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland, is designed to monitor the people's direction and keep track of their walking trajectories. The new smart floor uses machine learning techniques to produce powerful algorithms, which in turn learn from the data that the system obtains. The algorithms are now equipped to distinguish various ways of walking, identify objects with wheels and detect a person that fell. The data collected are then translated into tables and charts that can be accessed real time through computers and mobile devices.