ELEVATOR SYSTEM

• US 20150314983A1
• Filed: 05/13/2015
• Published: 11/05/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 11/14/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kone Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kone Corporation
• Inventors: SAARI, Aapo, LAURILA, Jussi
• Granted Patent: US 9,862,567 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B66B 1/2458 For elevator systems with multiple shafts and a single car per shaft
• CPC Class Codes: B66B 1/3423 Control system configuration, i.e. lay-out
• CPC Class Codes: B66B 1/468 Call registering systems
• CPC Class Codes: B66B 2201/4615 Wherein the destination is registered before boarding
• CPC Class Codes: B66B 2201/4638 Wherein the call is registered without making physical contact with the elevator system
• CPC Class Codes: B66B 2201/4676 for checking authorization of the passengers
• CPC Class Codes: B66B 3/006 for guiding passengers to their assigned elevator car

Abstract

Method and system for generating automatic destination calls for an elevator system, in which system is a revolving door. A passenger approaching the revolving door or in a door sector of the revolving door is identified, a destination call to the home floor of the passenger is generated and the elevator serving the passenger is announced with the information means that are in connection with the revolving door.

Claims

1. A method for generating automatic destination calls for an elevator system, the elevator system comprising a plurality of elevators, a control system of the elevator system, an identification device configured to identify passengers, and a revolving door comprising at least one door sector, in connection with which door sector are information means for notifying an information device configured to notify messages to a passenger in a door sector, said method comprising the steps of:

identifying a passenger approaching the revolving door and/or a passenger in a door sector;

determining the home floor of the passenger on the basis of the identification;

automatically generating a destination call to the home floor;

allocating an elevator to the passenger for taking the passenger to the home floor;

identifying the door sector in which the passenger is located;

notifying the passenger of the elevator serving him/her and/or other personal information with the identification device that is in connection with the door sector;

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein a passenger is identified from an electrical identifier that is in the possession of the passenger.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein a passenger is identified from a video image.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the method further comprises the steps of:

checking the access rights of a passenger on the basis of the identification; and

preventing the generation of a destination call and/or preventing the use of the revolving door at least momentarily, if the passenger does not have a valid access right.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the method further comprises the steps of:

using remote identification for identifying a passenger approaching the revolving door; and

monitoring the door sector to which the identified passenger goes for identifying the door sector.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the method further comprises the step of identifying a passenger when the passenger is in the entry sector of the revolving door.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the method further comprises the steps of:

collecting statistical data about the destination calls of a passenger; and

determining the home floor of the passenger on the basis of the collected statistical data.

11. The system according to claim 1, wherein the system is arranged to check the access rights of a passenger and to prevent the generation of a destination call and/or at least momentarily the use of the revolving door if the passenger does not have a valid access right.

12. The system according to claim 1, wherein the identification device is arranged to identify a passenger approaching the revolving door.

13. The system according to claim 1, wherein the identification device is arranged to identify a passenger in the entry sector of the revolving door.

14. The system according to claim 1, wherein the system comprises a memory, in which the system is arranged to collect statistical data about the elevator journeys made by identified passengers and to deduce the home floor of each passenger on the basis of the aforementioned statistical data.

15. The system according to claim 1, further comprising an interface, via which passenger-specific messages can be recorded in the system for presenting with the information device.

16. The method according to claim 2, wherein the method further comprises the steps of:

checking the access rights of a passenger on the basis of the identification; and

preventing the generation of a destination call and/or preventing the use of the revolving door at least momentarily, if the passenger does not have a valid access right.

17. The method according to claim 3, wherein the method further comprises the steps of:

checking the access rights of a passenger on the basis of the identification; and

preventing the generation of a destination call and/or preventing the use of the revolving door at least momentarily, if the passenger does not have a valid access right.

18. The method according to claim 2, wherein the method further comprises the steps of:

using remote identification for identifying a passenger approaching the revolving door; and

monitoring the door sector to which the identified passenger goes for identifying the door sector.

19. The method according to claim 3, wherein the method further comprises the steps of:

using remote identification for identifying a passenger approaching the revolving door; and

monitoring the door sector to which the identified passenger goes for identifying the door sector.

20. The method according to claim 4, wherein the method further comprises the steps of:

using remote identification for identifying a passenger approaching the revolving door; and

monitoring the door sector to which the identified passenger goes for identifying the door sector.

8. A system for giving destination calls to an elevator system, comprising:

a plurality of elevators;

a control system of the elevator system, which control system is arranged to allocate to each passenger an elevator from the elevator system;

a revolving door comprising at least one door sector, in connection with which are an information device;

a back-end system, in connection with which are an identification device configured to identify a passenger approaching the revolving door and/or in the entry sector of the revolving door; and

a device configured to identify the door sector into which the identified passenger goes and/or in which the passenger located,

wherein the system determines the home floor of the passenger on the basis of the identification, automatically generates a destination call to the home floor, allocates an elevator to the passenger for taking the passenger to the home floor, and notifies to the passenger in the door sector the elevator allocated to him/her and/or other personal information with the information device that is in connection with the identified door sector.

9. The system according to claim 8, wherein:

the identification device is arranged to read the identification data contained in an identifier in the possession of a passenger.

10. The system according to claim 8, wherein the identification device utilizes biometric identification for identifying a passenger.