Peak traffic detection according to passenger traffic intensity
AssigneeKone Corporation
InventorsMarja-Liisa Siikonen, Juha-Matti Kuusinen, Mirko Ruokokoski, Henri Hakonen
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Abstract
A method and a control device for controlling an at least one elevator are described, by which an arriving traffic intensity is detected, the traffic intensity being a number of passengers arriving at the at least one elevator during a traffic intensity determination period, a traffic amount value is determined by comparing the traffic intensity to a maximum building population, wherein the maximum building population is a maximum number of people in a building, and the at least one elevator is controlled based on the determined traffic amount value.
Claims20
A method for controlling an at least one elevator comprising
- detecting an arriving traffic intensity, the traffic intensity being a number of passengers arriving at the at least one elevator during a traffic intensity determination period,
- determining a traffic amount value by comparing the traffic intensity to a maximum building population, wherein the maximum building population is a maximum number of people in a building, and
- controlling the at least one elevator based on the determined traffic amount value, wherein the method further comprises,
- detecting persons arriving into the building from entrance floors and persons leaving the building from the entrance floors,
- adding the number of detected persons arriving into the building from the entrance floors to a basic building population number,
- subtracting the number of detected persons leaving the building from the entrance floors from the basic building population number,
- determining a maximum number of the basic building population number during a building population determination period as the maximum building population, and
- updating the maximum building population for each building population determination period.
A control device for controlling at least one elevator, wherein the control device comprises a controller configured to
- detect an arriving traffic intensity, the traffic intensity being a number of passengers arriving at the at least one elevator during a traffic intensity determination period,
- determine a traffic amount value by comparing the traffic intensity to a maximum building population, wherein the maximum building population is a maximum number of people in a building, and
- control the at least one elevator based on the determined traffic amount value,
- wherein the controller is further configured to
- detect persons arriving into the building from entrance floors and persons leaving the building from the entrance floors,
- add the number of detected persons arriving into the building from the entrance floors to a basic building population number,
- subtract the number of detected persons leaving the building from the entrance floors from the basic building population number,
- determine a maximum number of the basic building population number during a building population determination period as the maximum building population, and update the maximum building population for each building population determination period.
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