Monitoring of a door of an elevator
AssigneeKone Corporation
InventorDavide LA CROCE
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Abstract
The present invention relates to an apparatus for detecting a state of an elevator door, the apparatus configured to: determine, on a basis of a pressure data, at least one indicator value indicative of a change in the pressure; compare the at least one indicator value to a respective reference value; and set, in accordance with a comparison between the at least one indicator value and the respective reference value, a detection result to express one of the following: (i) the elevator door is open, (ii) the elevator door is closed. Furthermore, the invention relates to a method, a computer program product and an elevator system.
Claims19
An apparatus for detecting a state of an elevator door, the apparatus configured to:
- determine, on a basis of a pressure data, at least one indicator value indicative of a change in the pressure;
- compare the at least one indicator value to a respective reference value;
- and
- set, in accordance with a comparison between the at least one indicator value and the respective reference value, a detection result to express one of the following:
- (i) the elevator door is open, (ii) the elevator door is closed.
A method for detecting a state of an elevator door, the method, performed by an apparatus comprises:
- determining, on a basis of a pressure data, at least one indicator value indicative of a change in the pressure;
- compare the at least one indicator value to a respective reference value;
- and
- set, in accordance with a comparison between the at least one indicator value and the respective reference value, a detection result to express one of the following:
- (i) the elevator door is open, (ii) the elevator door is closed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.