Kone Corporation

Jukka Lindberg

Juha-Matti Aitamurto

Jari Kantola

Pekka Laukkanen

Ari Kattainen

Pekka Perälä

Jaakko Kalliomäki

Jaakko Kalliomaki

Ari-Pekka Hietala

Gareth Chapman

Gabriella Still

Pekka PerÄlÄ

Sivasamy Manokar

The invention relates to a mobile operating unit for an elevator, comprising an operating interface manually operable by a user to control movement of an elevator car; and an orientation sensor for sensing orientation of the operating unit. The invention also relates to an elevator comprising said mobile operating unit and a method for monitoring elevator wherein said mobile operating unit is used.

Mobile operating unit, elevator and method

The elevator comprising a car moving upwards and downwards in a well, a controller controlling the elevator, and a well lighting. The method comprises detecting a manual unlocking or a manual opening of a landing door, activating the well lighting automatically when the controller detects a manual unlocking or a manual opening of a landing door.

Method for controlling an elevator lighting and an elevator

The invention relates to a method and a system for executing elevator control actions from a remote terminal in a remote control system. The remote control system comprises a remote terminal, one or more monitoring cameras as well as interface and data transfer means for the transmission of camera information, elevator status data and/or control commands between the elevator and the remote control system. The monitoring cameras are so directed that their combined image area substantially covers the operating area of the elevator. The remote terminal comprises a display device for the display of image information and elevator status data and means for starting elevator control functions. In the method, the operating area of the elevator is imaged by a monitoring camera or cameras, whose image information as well as the elevator status information is displayed on the display device of the remote terminal. Based on the image information and/or elevator status data, the control action to be executed is selected and an estimation as to whether the control action involves a risk of injury is performed. If no risk of injury exists, then the execution of the control action is started from the remote terminal.

Remote control of an elevator and fast recovery from operational shutdown situations executed from a remote terminal

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Jukka Lindberg