Otis Elevator Company

James Taylor

Emily Baldi

Paul A Simcik

Ashley Chapman

Harrison Daniels

Eric C Peterson

Sheryl Brothers

Yew Hung Leong

Daniel Archibald

A method of controlling access to a building is provided. The method comprising: receiving visitor contact information for a visitor from a resident device, the visitor contact information identifies a visitor device of the visitor; receiving visitor access permissions for the visitor from the resident device, the visitor access permissions include at least one of a selected elevator car, a selected door, and a selected floor; and granting the visitor device access to at least one of the selected elevator car, the selected door, and the selected floor.

User management of door and elevator access control

A method of interacting with an elevator system is provided. The method comprising: detecting, using a sensor system, performance data for an elevator system, the elevator system including one or more elevator cars; receiving an issue report from a user mobile device; determining a maintenance issue of the elevator system in response to at least one of the issue report and the performance data; and transmitting the maintenance issue to a maintenance device.

Passenger-initiated dynamic elevator service request

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West Hartford, CT, United States of America

James Taylor