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US 12,234,120 B2Granted
Energy-aware dispatching for conveyance systems
AssigneeOtis Elevator Company
InventorsEnrico Manes, Suman Dwari, Stephen Savulak, Ronnie E. Thebeau
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Abstract
An aspect includes a system with an energy storage device configured to provide electrical power to a conveyance apparatus of a conveyance system, a power management system configured to determine a charging schedule to recharge the energy storage device based at least in part on a status of the conveyance system, and a dispatching system configured to modify a dispatch schedule of the conveyance system based at least in part on the charging schedule.
Claims20
A system comprising:
- an energy storage device configured to provide electrical power to a conveyance apparatus of a conveyance system;
- a power management system configured to determine a charging schedule to recharge the energy storage device based at least in part on a status of the conveyance system;
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- a dispatching system configured to modify a dispatch schedule of the conveyance system based at least in part on the charging schedule.
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A system comprising:
- an energy storage device configured to provide electrical power to a conveyance apparatus of a conveyance system;
- a power management system configured to determine a charging schedule to recharge the energy storage device based at least in part on a status of the conveyance system;
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- a dispatching system configured to modify a dispatch schedule of the conveyance system based at least in part on the charging schedule, wherein modification of the dispatch schedule adjusts one or more of:
- a charging time of the energy storage device, an arrival time of the conveyance apparatus, and a departure time of the conveyance apparatus, and the charging schedule is adjusted to change a charging duty cycle of the energy storage device with respect to one or more other energy storage devices.
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A method comprising:
- monitoring, by a power management system, an energy storage device of a conveyance apparatus of a conveyance system;
- determining, by the power management system, a charging schedule to recharge the energy storage device based at least in part on a status of the conveyance system;
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- modifying a dispatch schedule of the conveyance system based at least in part on the charging schedule.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.