Arrangement for transferring transportation infrastructure control data within a shared data network
AssigneeKone Corporation
InventorsSanttu Koskinen, Mikko Piironen, Ari Koivisto, Mikko Mattila, Mikko Heiskanen, Anssi Rantamäki
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Abstract
An arrangement for connecting transportation infrastructure peripheral devices, such as elevator and escalator peripheral devices, to a transportation infrastructure devices, such as elevator, using a building network is disclosed. In the arrangement a virtually dedicated channel for communication between elevator and escalator peripheral devices is created. The channel is used for transmitting signals, such as elevator calls, so that there is no need to use a dedicated and separated network elevator and escalator peripheral devices.
Claims11
A transportation infrastructure arrangement comprising:
- at least one elevator;
- at least one elevator connected device;
- and
- a building data communications network,
- wherein the building data communications network is a shared data communication network,
- wherein the at least one elevator connected device is configured to communicate with said at least one elevator using a virtually dedicated communication channel within the building data communication network for real-time, safety-related elevator control and operational data, and
- wherein the virtually dedicated communication channel is provided by separating the channel using a virtual LAN (VLAN) or security group tagging (SGT), so that the real-time, safety-related elevator control and operational data is securely separated from general building data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.