It looks like it's just a switch as far as Arduino is concerned. Connect one wire from mat to ground and connect other wire to an arduino digital pin that is configured as input and has the pullup resistor enabled 'pinMode(matPin,INPUT_PULLUP)'. 'DigitalRead(matPin)' will return HIGH when mat is clear and LOW when someone stands on it.
max246:
What are you saying is that I Can't check if the person is on the beginning or at the end , right?
I can check only if there is someone on the mat
Your going to have to ask Maplin if it has more than 2x wires and you can detect zones within the pressure mat as there less than helpful description
Four conatct mat that is activated when stepped upon
is little help. I can only assume it means 4x contacts but no mention of what they are.