System and method for assisting a passenger detected at an elevator bank

Abstract

An elevator system, having: a call station located in a lobby; a device controller; a proximity sensor, operationally coupled to the device controller, located in the lobby, and configured to generate proximity sensor data utilized by the device controller, a speaker, operationally coupled to the device controller, and located in the lobby, wherein the device controller, from the proximity sensor data, is configured to: detect the presence of a passenger; determine the passenger requires assistance to locate the call station in the lobby; and issue an audible sound from the speaker to guide the passenger to the call station.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.