Abstract:
An elevator system (10) is provided comprising: a first elevator car compartment configured to transport passengers through a hoistway from a first location to a second location; a plurality of sensors configured to capture data, the plurality of sensors comprising at least one of a first sensor (140a) located in the first elevator compartment and a second sensor (140b) located in an elevator lobby (100); a control system (110) configured to analyze the captured data and determine information in response to the captured data; and a plurality of monitors configured to display the information from the plurality of sensors, the plurality of monitors comprising at least one of a first monitor (130a) located in the first elevator compartment and a second monitor (130b) located in the elevator lobby.
Abstract:
An elevator notice system for an elevator system includes at least one hoistway defined by a structure having a plurality of areas with each area having at least one gate and at least one car in each of the at least one hoistway. At least one of the at least one gate is associated with a respective hoistway. The elevator notice system includes a controller and a programmable display (34). The controller is configured to control the display and track the current location and scheduled destination of each of the at least one car in each of the at least one hoistway. The programmable display (34) includes a car identification portion (38) displaying a car identification type associated with a specific car of the at least one car, and is configured to display at least a next area destination associated with the specific car.
Abstract:
A gesture-based interaction system (100) for communication with an equipment-based system (150) includes a sensor device (110-n) and a signal processing unit (151). The sensor device (110-n) is configured to capture at least one scene of a user (160) to monitor for at least one gesture of a plurality of possible gestures, conducted by the user, and output a captured signal. The signal processing unit (151) includes a processor configured to execute recognition software and a storage medium configured to store pre-defined gesture data. The signal processing unit (151) is configured to receive the captured signal, process the captured signal by at least comparing the captured signal to the pre-defined gesture data for determining if at least one gesture of the plurality of possible gestures are portrayed in the at least one scene, and output a command signal associated with the at least one gesture to the equipment-based system (150).
Abstract:
A gesture and location recognition system and method are provided. The system (100) includes a sensor device (110-n) that captures a data signal of a user (160) and detects a gesture input from the user (160) from the data signal, wherein a user location can be calculated based on a sensor location of the sensor device (110-n) in a building and the collected data signal of the user (160), a signal processing device (151) that generates a control signal based on the gesture input and the user location, and in-building equipment (152.1, 152.2) that receives the control signal from the signal processing device (151) and controls the in-building equipment based on the control signal.
Abstract:
A method for multiple 3D sensor calibration for a passenger conveyance system, the process including a computing a centroid location from spatial measurements for each of a pair of 3D sensors that form a common field of view via a moving object mathematical model; computing translation parameters from the locations of each centroid location; and correcting one of the pair of 3D sensors to a common world coordinate system from the translation parameters.
Abstract:
A building event management system for monitoring a building is provided including a plurality of devices located within the building. The plurality of devices includes at least one occupant interaction device. A controller is configured to communicate with the plurality of devices. The controller is configured to gather critical building information from the at least one occupant interaction device when an emergency event has been identified.
Abstract:
A method and system to direct a plurality of occupants during an evacuation of a building includes receiving at least one occupancy parameter of the plurality of occupants via at least one occupancy sensor, and controlling at least one occupancy actuator in response to the at least one occupancy parameter via an occupancy controller.
Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to sensor fusion for passenger conveyance control. A fusion based passenger tracking system (270) includes one or more 2D/3D sensors (284) for capturing 2D/3D data; one or more security sensors (280) for capturing security data; and a processing module in communication with the one or more 2D/3D sensors (284) to receive the 2D/3D data, and the one or more security sensors (280) to receive the security data, the processing module using the 2D/3D data and the security data to calculate passenger data to generate a passenger tracking list that tracks each individual passenger in the passenger data.
Abstract:
A method includes generating a depth stream from a scene associated with a conveyance device; processing, by a computing device, the depth stream to obtain depth information; recognizing a gesture based on the depth information; and controlling the conveyance device based on the gesture.
Abstract:
An elevator system (20) includes multiple elevator cars (22, 32) within a hoistway (26). Counterweights (24, 34) are associated with the respective elevator cars (22, 32) by load bearing members (40, 50). In some examples, different roping ratios are used for the load bearing members (40, 50). In some examples, the lengths of the load bearing members (40, 50) are selected to allow contact between the counterweights (24, 34) within the hoistway (26) and prevent contact between the elevator cars (22, 32). The difference in car and counterweight separation distances is greater than a stroke of a counterweight buffer plus an expected dynamic jump of the elevator cars. A disclosed example includes passages (80) through a portion of at least one of the elevator cars (22) for accommodating the load bearing member (50) of another elevator car (32) located beneath the elevator car (22) with the passages (80).