Crowd service enhancements with multi-deck elevators
AssigneeOtis Elevator Company
InventorsAnne R. L. Davis, Jannah Stanley, Daniel S. Williams
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Abstract
In an elevator dispatching system controlling the assignment of elevator cars in a building, a method of assigning a multi-deck elevator car includes determining if a crowd exists at a floor in the building; if it is determined that the crowd exists at the floor in the building, determining if two decks of a best elevator car are available; if it is determined that multiple decks of the best elevator car are available, assigning the two available decks of the best elevator to the floor where the crowd exists; wherein, the best elevator car makes one stop for each of the two available decks at the floor where the crowd exists.
Claims4
In an elevator dispatching system controlling the assignment of elevator cars in a building, a method of assigning a multi-deck elevator car, said method comprising the steps of:
- determining if a crowd exists at a floor in the building;
- determining a best elevator car;
- determining if two decks of the best elevator car are available, if it is determined that the crowd exists at the floor in the building;
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- assigning the two available decks of the best elevator to the floor where the crowd exists, if it is determined that two decks of the best elevator car are available;
- wherein, the best elevator car makes one stop for each of the two available decks at the floor where the crowd exists.
In an elevator dispatching system controlling the assignment of elevator cars in a building, a method of assigning a multi-deck elevator car, said method comprising the steps of:
- determining if a crowd exists at a floor in the building;
- determining a set of elevator cars having at least two available decks;
- determining a best elevator car from the set of elevator cars having at least two available decks, if the crowd exists at the floor;
- and
- assigning the two available decks of the best elevator to the floor, wherein the best elevator car makes one stop for each of the available decks at the floor.
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