About Tactim

AULM SA is a company incorporated in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1992 and is the owner of the trademark Tactim, registered worldwide. AULM SA is a research-oriented company which is active in the design of safe, secure and environmentally friendly human/machine interface devices.

These devices - which we call "tactors" - tactile sensors - promise to offer a whole new range of biometric solutions to the problem of identity authentication. They will also provide data encoders for applications in telemedicine. Health practitioners have long been familiar with the technique of 'palpation'. It has in fact been in widespread use as a natural diagnostic device going back in history throughout many countries. AULM SA's tactors are designed to facilitate the collection of information from source - and that source can be the Self.

What Tactim is doing is to apply 'taction' - touch in action - to offer biometric identification of the individual for security purposes and biometric data for the health and safety sector.
Contact between skin and machine needs to be properly explored and exploited, and so AULM is introducing a range of innovative products and services in this new area with the aim of making technophiles feel safe and secure, that is, to feel "free from worry", when using what amount to the technological extensions of our body's nerve-endings.

DermoScience, the study of the skin, contends that our primary senses - sight, hearing, smell and taste - are specialized developments of the anatomical 'derm'. In the wake of the digital revolution in sound recording, followed in its turn by a similar one in digital imagery, form and color recording, AULM concluded that the next digital revolution would occur in the recording, exchange and communication of tactile sensory impressions.

Last but not least, AULM SA, as a research-oriented company, is playing an active role in helping to set and define taction standards and make them coherent within the ISO, IEC and ITU set of International Standards.