Otis Elevator Company

Robert Costabile

Danny Seheon Lee

Harold Terry

Bruce F Gallo

Hak Cheol Kim

Andrew Zielke

Xiaofei Guo

Sandeep Sudi

Paul A Stranieri

An illustrative example method of controlling an elevator system includes detecting a number of passengers waiting for elevator service at a landing, detecting an available passenger capacity of a plurality of elevator cars, respectively, and assigning at least one of the elevator cars to travel to the landing to provide elevator service to the passengers based on the detected number of passengers and the available passenger capacity of the at least one of the elevator cars.

Elevator car assignment based on a detected number of waiting passengers

Operating/display panel

Signage in a building environment

Growing community of inventors

Hamden, CT, United States of America

Robert Costabile