| abstract |
The large-area sensor (1) for indicating the occupancy of storage, exhibition or sales shelves is formed by a flat pad for at least partial covering of the shelf surface, consisting of at least one sensing element (2) and at least one bus (3) electrically connected to the sensing elements (2) . The pad is formed by at least one flexible substrate and the sensing element (2) is integrated in the pad. The electrically conductive connections and the sensing element are non-removably printed and / or non-removably applied by a coating technique on a flexible substrate. The sensing elements (2) are arranged on the flexible substrate in arrays with a constant or variable sampling density of sampling points, where exactly one sensing element (2) is arranged in each sampling point, each array having at least one separate bus (3). |