Elevator-based air quality sensing system for buildings
AssigneeKone Corporation
InventorsPekka Perunka, Pekka Perälä
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Abstract
A method of monitors a climate quality within a building having an elevator running between floors of an elevator hoistway. The elevator car of the elevator includes at least an air-quality sensor. The method is characterized in that a fan of the elevator car is running when the door(s) of the car is/are opening at a floor station to suck air from the building's floor level into the elevator car to the vicinity of the air-quality sensor and sensing the air-quality by the sensor preceding to generating data of the air-quality.
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A method of controlling a climate quality within a building by means of an elevator system comprising an elevator controller and an elevator car that is running between floors of an elevator hoistway of the building, the elevator car of the elevator comprising at least an air-quality sensor, the method comprising the steps of:
- controlling a fan of the elevator car to at least run when at least one door of the elevator car is detected to be open or opening at a floor level station to therewith suck air from a building's floor level into the elevator car to a vicinity of the sensor;
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- sensing at least one sensor specific parameter by the air-quality sensor,
- wherein a floor-level-position of the elevator car is further detected and the at least one sensor specific parameter is allocated to the floor-level-position data of the elevator car as gained by the position detection to obtain a floor level specific climate data.
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