A person monitoring system comprises a resilient floor covering arranged in a monitored area, one or more pressure sensors installed in or under the resilient floor covering for generating an analog measurement signal and a detector for detecting person-related events in the monitored area. The detector includes an analog-to-digital converter for sampling the analog measurement signal and producing a digital measurement signal, a buffer memory for buffering the digital measurement signal and a processor for processing the digital measurement signal. The processor is configured to extract a feature vector from the buffered digital measurement signal and to map the extracted feature vector into one of at least two categories indicating the occurrence or the absence of a person-related event.