Passenger interface for shuttle elevator system
AssigneeOtis Elevator Company
InventorArthur Hsu
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Abstract
A shuttle elevator loading system includes a plurality of shuttle elevators configured to service a building lobby. At least one sensor is configured to detect at least one passenger and at least one display unit is located at a display zone of the lobby. An elevator system controller is in signal communication with the at least one sensor and the at least one display unit. The elevator system controller determines a number of allocated passengers corresponding to each shuttle elevator and generates assignment information that directs a non-allocated passenger to an available shuttle elevator.
Claims16
A shuttle elevator loading system comprising:
- a plurality of shuttle elevators configured to service a building lobby;
- at least one sensor configured to detect at least one passenger;
- at least one display unit located at a display zone of the lobby;
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- an elevator system controller in signal communication with the at least one sensor and the at least one display unit, the elevator system controller configured to identify a given passenger detected by the at least one sensor as either an allocated passenger that is allocated to one of the plurality of shuttle elevator or a non-allocated passenger that is not allocated to one of the plurality of shuttle elevators, and is configured to determine a number of allocated passengers corresponding to each shuttle elevator, and to generate assignment information that directs a non-allocated passenger to an available shuttle elevator such that that the previously non-allocated passenger is determined as a newly identified allocated passenger,
- wherein the controller adds a first passenger allocation to the available elevator after generating the assignment information, and dynamically removes the first passenger allocation from the available shuttle elevator and adds a second passenger allocation to a second available shuttle elevator in response to detecting that the newly identified allocated passenger moves from the available shuttle elevator to the second available shuttle elevator.
A method of controlling a shuttle elevator loading system, the method comprising:
- a plurality of shuttle elevators configured to service a building lobby;
- detecting, via at least one sensor, at least one passenger of at least one shuttle elevator among a plurality of shuttle elevators servicing a building lobby;
- at least one display unit located at a display zone of the lobby;
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- determining, via an elevator system controller, a number of allocated passengers corresponding to each shuttle elevator;
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- generating assignment information that directs a non-allocated passenger among the at least one passenger to an available shuttle elevator to transition the non-allocated passenger to a newly identified allocated passenger and adding a first passenger allocation to the available elevator after generating the assignment information;
- detecting that the newly identified allocated passenger moves from the available shuttle elevator to a second available shuttle elevator different from the first available shuttle elevator;
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- dynamically removing the first passenger allocation from the available shuttle elevator and adding a second passenger allocation to a second available shuttle elevator in response to detecting that the newly identified allocated passenger moves from the available shuttle elevator to the second available shuttle elevator.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.