Mobile application based elevator dispatching using tenant identity
AssigneeOtis Elevator Company
InventorAdam Keser
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Abstract
A method includes receiving, by a computing device comprising a processor, registration information associated with a tenant of a building and at least one user device, determining, by the computing device, that the at least one user device is within a threshold distance of the building, causing, by the computing device, an identity of the tenant to be provided by the at least one user device based on the determination that the at least one user device is within the threshold distance of the building, and causing, by the computing device, an elevator car to be dispatched to a floor of the building on which the tenant is located.
Claims13
A method comprising:
- receiving, by a computing device comprising a processor, registration information associated with a tenant of a building including tenant name and tenant floor and registration information associated with at least one user device;
- determining, by the computing device, that the at least one user device is within a threshold distance of the building;
- causing, by the computing device, the tenant name to be provided to the at least one user device based on the determination that the at least one user device is within the threshold distance of the building;
- receiving, by the computing device, a selection of the tenant name;
- and
- causing, by the computing device, an elevator car to be sent to a floor where the at least one user device is located for eventual travel to the tenant floor of the building in which the tenant is located;
- wherein the tenant name is provided to the at least one user device based on the registration information associated with the at least one user device.
An apparatus comprising:
- at least one processor;
- and
- memory having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to implement:
- receiving registration information associated with a tenant of a building including tenant name and tenant floor and registration information associated with at least one user device;
- determining that the at least one user device is within a threshold distance of the building;
- causing the tenant name to be provided to the at least one user device based on the determination that the at least one user device is within the threshold distance of the building;
- receiving a selection of the tenant name;
- and
- causing an elevator car to be sent to a floor where the at least one user device is located for eventual travel to the tenant floor of the building in which the tenant is located;
- wherein the tenant name is provided to the at least one user device based on the registration information associated with the at least one user device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.