Passenger guiding system for a passenger transportation system
AssigneeOtis Elevator Company
InventorJacobus Benjamin Legez
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Abstract
Passenger transportation system (4) including a hallway (2) providing access to at least one transport car (6, 8, 10, 12) and a control for controlling the movement of the cars, characterized by a passenger trajectory tracking device (16) including a data processing means for monitoring the access areas to the cars (6, 8, 10, 12).
Claims16
A method for controlling access to a passenger transportation system including a hallway providing an access area to access at least one transport car and a control for controlling movement of the car, comprising the steps of
- (a) monitoring the access area to the car;
- (b) obtaining passenger destination data from a destination input device;
- (c) determining passenger trajectory data including position, speed and direction of passengers in the access area;
- (d) controlling the passenger transportation system on the basis of the passenger trajectory data;
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- (e) providing information to at least one passenger on the basis of the passenger trajectory data.
A passenger transportation system including
- a control for controlling the movement of at least one transport car;
- a passenger trajectory tracking device configured to monitor an access area to access the at least one transport car, the passenger trajectory tracking device includes an imaging device connected with a data processor configured to determine a position, speed and direction of each passenger;
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- a destination input device placed in access area which is monitored by the passenger trajectory tracking device.
A passenger transportation system including
- a control for controlling the movement of at least one transport car;
- a passenger trajectory tracking device configured to monitor an access area to access the at least one transport car;
- and
- a destination input device placed in the access area which is monitored by the passenger trajectory tracking device, the destination input device is connected with a data processor of the passenger trajectory tracking device for inputting destination data to the data processor wherein the data processor is configured to calculate the number of passengers heading for a particular destination, and wherein the control includes a second car dispatch device for calculating a potential overload condition on the basis of the actual load of the respective car assigned to said destination and the number of passengers heading for said destination and for assigning a further car to the hallway assigned to said destination.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.