Elevator system
AssigneeKone Corporation
InventorMarja-Liisa Siikonen
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Abstract
The invention presents a method and a system for evacuating a building or a part of it using an elevator system, which comprises one or more elevators. In the method an evacuation state is activated, the number of people awaiting evacuation on specific floors is determined, the number of elevator cars and/or of evacuation times needed for the evacuation of specific floors is calculated on the basis of the capacity of the aforementioned one or more elevator cars and of the number of people awaiting evacuation, and floor-specific evacuation is controlled to one or more predefined exit floors.
Claims16
Method for evacuating a building or a part of it using an elevator system, which comprises one or more elevators,
- wherein the method comprises the phases:
- an evacuation state is activated, which evacuation state defines at least one floor to be evacuated and at least one exit floor;
- the number of people awaiting evacuation on specific floors is determined;
- the number of elevator cars and/or of evacuation times needed for the evacuation of specific floors is calculated on the basis of the capacity of the aforementioned one or more elevator cars of an elevator and of the number of people awaiting evacuation;
- and
- the floor-specific evacuation is controlled to the aforementioned at least one exit floor, in which control the number of elevator cars and/or of evacuation times needed for the evacuation is take into account.
System for evacuating a building or a part of it using an elevator system, which comprises one or more elevators,
- wherein the system comprises:
- an interface of the control system for activating an evacuation state;
- means for determining the number of people awaiting evacuation on specific floors;
- a control system for calculating the number of elevator cars and/or of evacuation times needed for the evacuation of specific floors on the basis of the capacity of the aforementioned one or more elevator cars of the elevator and of the number of people awaiting evacuation;
- and
- a control system for controlling the evacuation of specific floors to at least one exit floor specified by the evacuation state.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.