Abstract:
A system and method for pre-programming operation of an elevator to automatically service particular floors of a building at a designated future interval. A remote user may input instructions over a network to be relayed to an elevator controller including a future interval during which an elevator is to automatically make continuous or periodic trips to and from a particular floor or floors of a building, such that during the designated future interval the elevator automatically and without a user's instructions, reaches the designated floor, opens the door, waits a pre-set time period, closes the door and travels to another floor or floors.
Abstract:
A method of controlling a lift installation with at least one lift car, at least one lift control and at least one mobile apparatus, and a control system for a controlling a lift installation. A reporting device near the lift installation receives at least one activation signal from a transmitting/receiving device of a mobile apparatus. The reporting device activates in response to the received activation signal. At least one network address of a recognition device of a lift control of the lift installation is transmitted from the activated reporting device to the transmitting/receiving device of the mobile apparatus.
Abstract:
The present invention deals with a method and an apparatus for the input call needed in an elevator system by means of a wireless call input device. The call input device may be a device provided with a display and a keypad, designed especially for this use. In a preferred embodiment, the call input device is the user's mobile telephone and the system utilizes technology consistent with the Bluetooth standard. RFID technology or the use of bar codes is also possible. For the user a profile is created which contains the user's name, statistical information regarding the destination floors most frequently selected by the user, and possible additional services. The user can input a call from an elevator lobby before arriving to the elevator. After the system has allocated the most suitable elevator to the user, corresponding information is presented on the display of the call input device. This information can be accompanied by guidance information and information about an estimated waiting time. The destination floor alternatives can also be programmed to the call input device by the user him/herself. Additional services can be provided to the user of the call system and to other parties working in the building by connecting the control system to the Internet e.g. via an embedded mobile telephone.
Abstract:
In an elevator call registration system, elevator-related information is constantly transmitted from an elevator call registration server, and a call registration reservation for a desired elevator can be made by selecting contents from the information. Therefore, it is not necessary for the user to access a site where necessary contents are stored, enabling an easy call registration reservation. Further, since the call registration detects that the user is approaching the reserved elevator, the car is positioned at a good time and the user can smoothly go to a desired floor.
Abstract:
Controlling means (213) for a car/hall apparatus (21) provided for an elevator transfers an elevator operating program stored in storage means (214) to an operating terminal (16) through operating terminal communication means (212) and an operating terminal communication path (23) when necessary. The operating terminal (16) which has received the elevator operating program executes this program to control an elevator car and a hoisting machine through the operating terminal communication path (23), the car/hall apparatus (21), a car/hall communication path (22), and a controlling apparatus (13), thereby operating the elevator.
Abstract:
The next destination for an automatically registered elevator call is displayed to a passenger on a portable card that he carries, when he passes a beacon adjacent to the elevator, only if the destination is designated as “fixed”; if the destination is designated as “unfixed”, a new next destination is determined from a record of the passenger's destinations (which may include a history of the passenger's travel habits) and the floor upon which the beacon is situated. A transponder remote from the elevator entrance responds to a transmission from the card to register a hall call for that floor; a transponder in the car can sense a transmission from the card to enter a car call for the destination floor; if there is no car transponder, the destination is stored and a car call entered automatically upon the arrival of a car in response to the hall call. If the passenger enters a new destination, it is designated as “fixed”. Whenever a car call is entered for the passenger, the destination is redesignated as “unfixed”. Destinations may be determined and designated centrally for all passengers, or in a distributed fashion by each corresponding card.
Abstract:
Provided are techniques for performing validation of a passenger boarding, where the embodiments include receiving a call request, and detecting beacon information responsive to the call request. The techniques also include validating a boarding status of a passenger that placed the call request based at least in part on the beacon information, and responsive to the validation, transmitting a notification of the boarding status.
Abstract:
According to an aspect, there are provided a mobile device for wireless people flow management. The mobile device comprises at least one processor; at least one memory; and a near field communication, NFC, reader; wherein the at least one memory comprises program code which, when executed on the at least one processor causes the mobile device to receive, from the NFC reader, information encoded in an NFC tag associated with a specific location in a building; determine control information to trigger at least one state change associated with the location based on the information encoded to the NFC tag; and send the control information to a control system of the building.
Abstract:
A method for dynamic elevator door control is provided. The method is implemented by a system, which includes an elevator. The system procures passenger data, which can include a number of passengers presently travelling to a floor and a number of passengers awaiting to board at the floor. A determination is made by the system with respect a door operational time based on the passenger data. The system implements the door operational time to dynamically cause doors providing access to the elevator to remain open for a duration of the door operational time.
Abstract:
An elevator installation in a building includes an elevator control, an elevator car actuated by the elevator control to displace between floors of the building by a drive machine, and elevator operating devices arranged on the floors and connected to the elevator control. One of the elevator operating devices has a control device and a visual display unit, the control device receiving data for an optical code and a floor indicator from the elevator control to control the visual display unit according to the data for the optical code. The visual display unit displays the optical code in a display field. The control device controls the visual display unit to display a floor indicator in the display field, detect a touch of the optical code in the display field by a user and, upon a touch detection, generate an elevator call to a floor represented by the floor indicator.