INFORMATION EXCHANGE BETWEEN ELEVATOR SYSTEMS AND BUILDING SYSTEMS

• US 20130116835A1
• Filed: 11/08/2011
• Published: 05/09/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 11/08/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Inventio AG (Schindler Holding AG)
• Original Assignee: Inventio AG (Schindler Holding AG)
• Inventors: NOWEL, Edward
• Granted Patent: US 9,580,274 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 700/278
• CPC Class Codes: B66B 3/00 Applications of devices for indicating or signalling operating conditions of elevators
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 11/30 for purposes related to the operation of the system, e.g. for safety or monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 11/56 Remote control
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 11/64 using pre-stored data

Abstract

Environment information associated with a user can be exchanged between an elevator system and a building environmental system. The user can adjust environmental settings in one context (e.g., in an elevator car of the elevator system), and the settings can be carried over to another context (e.g., a room serviced by the building environmental system). Information exchange can be aided by a database that records information for user preferences.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving a user'"'"'s environment input information for one of an elevator system and a building environment system, the user being in an area served by the one of the elevator system and the building environment system;

updating a user profile based on the received environment input information; and

operating a component of the other of the elevator system and the building environment system based on the updated user profile.

2. The method of claim 1, the environment input information being for the elevator system and the component being of the building environment system.

3. The method of claim 1, the environment input information being for the building environment system and the component being of the elevator system.

4. The method of claim 1, the operating the component comprising adjusting lighting of an area served by the other of the elevator system and the building environment system.

5. The method of claim 1, the operating the component comprising adjusting a temperature of an area served by the other of the elevator system and the building environment system.

6. The method of claim 1, the operating the component comprising activating a multimedia component of an area served by the other of the elevator system and the building environment system.

7. The method of claim 1, the user'"'"'s input information being one of a set of repeated user inputs.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising determining that the user'"'"'s environment input information is within an allowable range for environment input information.

9. An elevator installation, comprising:

an elevator car, the elevator car being coupled to one or more environmental components for the elevator car;

a user profile database; and

an elevator control computer, the elevator control computer being coupled to the user profile database and being configured to,

receive first user environment input information from a user in the elevator car,

store the first user environment input information in the user profile database,

retrieve second user environment input information from the user profile database, the user profile database having been modified based on information provided by a building environment system, and

operate the one or more environmental components based on the retrieved second user environment input information.

10. The elevator installation of claim 9, the one or more environmental components comprising a lighting device.

11. The elevator installation of claim 9, the one or more environmental components comprising a multimedia device.

12. The elevator installation of claim 9, the one or more environmental components comprising an HVAC device.

13. The elevator installation of claim 9, the elevator control computer being further configured to operate the elevator car.

14. A system comprising:

an elevator control computer;

a building control computer;

a user profile database coupled to the elevator control computer and to the building control computer;

an elevator environmental component coupled to the elevator control computer;

a building environmental component coupled to the building control computer; and

an environment information input device coupled to the elevator control computer or to the building control computer.

15. The system of claim 14, further comprising a means for identifying a passenger.

16. The system of claim 14, the environment information input device being coupled to the elevator control computer and being a first environment information input device, the system further comprising a second environment information input device, the second environment information input device being coupled to the building control computer.

17. The system of claim 14, the user profile database being located remotely from at least one of the elevator control computer and the building control computer.

18. The system of claim 14, the user profile database being part of the building control computer or the elevator control computer.

19. The system of claim 14, the building control computer comprising a plurality of communicatively coupled computer devices.

20. One or more computer-readable storage media having encoded thereon instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform a method, the method comprising:

receiving user environment input information for one of an elevator system and a building environment system;

updating a user profile based on the received environment input information; and

operating a component of the other of the elevator system and the building environment system based on the updated user profile.