Otis Elevator Company

Donald F Cominelli

Hans-Kilian Josef Spielbauer

Michael Wilke

Paul A Simcik

Bradley Armand Scoville

Ashley Chapman

Eric C Peterson

Shan Li

Michael Peters

Uwe Schoenauer

Martin Georg Walter Hnida

HengFeng Xie

Hans-Killan Spielbauer

Maren Ifland

Martin Greg Walter Hinda

A system and/or method that establishes a proximity environment with respect to an elevator and detecting a position of a user device within the proximity environment is provided. Further the system and method determines a source floor and a destination floor respective to the user device and generating an elevator call to the elevator in accordance with the source floor and the destination floor.

Intelligent building system for implementing actions based on user device detection

A method of controlling an elevator system () comprising at least one elevator car (), which is configured for travelling between a plurality of landings (), comprises the steps of: displaying a hold button () on a mobile device () if the at least one elevator car () has stopped at a landing () and holding the elevator car () at the current landing () if the hold button () is operated.

Method, program and mobile device for controlling an elevator system

An elevator system () includes an elevator hoistway () having a plurality of landings (), an elevator car () configured to move within the elevator hoistway (), and a position determining system () having a plurality of landing position indicators () and a plurality of dummy position indicators (). At least one of the landing position indicators () is mounted proximate to each of the plurality of landings (). Each dummy position indicator () is mounted within the elevator hoistway () at a predetermined vertical position between various of the plurality of landing position indicators (). The position determining system () additionally includes a sensor () configured to determine when the elevator car is adjacent one of the plurality of landing position indicators () or one of the plurality of dummy position indicators (). The plurality of landing position indicators () and the plurality of dummy position indicators () are positioned to form a sequence of unique patterns. The position determining system is more cost effective and timesaving than the absolute position reference systems.

Position recovery via dummy landing patterns

Embodiments are directed to receiving, by a demand entering device configured to receive an elevator destination command, a request for at least one of: statistical data regarding use of at least one elevator, and field data in connection with a field service, maintenance, repair, or installation activity associated with the at least one elevator, and obtaining, by the demand entering device, at least one of the statistical data and the field data in response to the request.

Elevator demand entering device

An access control system for a people conveyor control system, includes an authentication proving device adapted to communicate with a people conveyor control system. The authentication proving device has a central processor unit and a read protected memory protected from read and write access by external applications. The authentication proving device stores in its read protected memory program code to carry out a verification procedure in response to a verification request from the people conveyor control system, and sends a verification signal to the people conveyor control system. The people conveyor control system in response to the verification signal selectively allows or denies access to at least one of specific sections of said people conveyor control system or specific functions implemented in the people conveyor control system.

Access control system and access control method for a people conveyor control system

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Berlin, Germany

Donald F Cominelli