Sensory flooring system and a sensory floor comprising a sensory flooring system

A sensory floor comprising:

• a sensory flooring system comprising:
• a plurality of flooring segments;
• and
• for each flooring segment, one or more electrode portions each electrode portion being responsive to a force applied to the flooring segment,
• wherein at least one electrode portion of a said flooring segment forms an electrode with at least one electrode portion of another said flooring segment,
• wherein each flooring segment comprises a unique encoding of the one or more electrode portions;
• and
• wherein each electrode portion of each flooring segment is electrically connected with at least one electrode portion of another said flooring segment, to form an electrode;
• a receiver for receiving an electrical output from the one or more electrodes formed by said one or more electrode portions of the flooring segments;
• and
• a processor for analysing the electrical output and identifying the flooring segment by which the electrical output was produced, wherein the processor is configured to use a deep learning model to:
• sense a position of a user based on the electrical output;
• and
• detect a pattern of at least one of a magnitude of the electrical output and a sequence of flooring segments producing the electrical output, to identify a particular user as “valid” or “invalid” based on the pattern, the processor comprising a neural network configured to detect, based on features extracted from an output of each respective electrode, features corresponding to the particular user.