Observed arrival · 2026-11-03
Tactera’s pressure-mapping mattress layer
Tactera is developing a thin pressure-sensing layer for hospital mattresses, designed to show how a patient’s weight shifts during repositioning and record the changes.
- For
- Hospital care teams evaluating patient repositioning
- Worth noticing
- The displayed 32 × 32 cm sample contains 1,024 sensing crossings; demo values are relative and illustrative, not clinical measurements.
Field notes
The described sensing layer uses crossing conductive fibres in a piezoresistive textile; changes in resistance at each crossing feed a software-generated map. The sample described on the page is 32 × 32 cm, and the demo walks through baseline capture, an intervention, follow-up capture and comparison. Its values are explicitly relative and illustrative, while the multi-bed care-team view is described as proposed for pilot deployments.
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