A method for operating an elevator having a car, a drive engine, shaft doors, signal receptors, an engine controller and a door controller. Each of the shaft doors is reciprocally opened and closed by an associated active door drive and has one of the signal receptors thereat. The method includes: receiving a requesting signal at one of the signal receptors; responding to the requesting signal by instructing the engine controller to control the drive engine to displace the car to a first position with the car roof adjacent to the shaft door at the floor from which the requesting signal originated when that floor is not the lowermost floor, and when the floor is the lowermost floor to a second position above the lowermost floor; instructing the door controller to control the door drive to actively open the door; and switching the engine controller to an inspection mode.

A people conveyor arrangement and a method for testing components and/or functions of the people conveyor in a people conveyor arrangement including at least one remote computing device and/or local computing device, and at least one communication channel and an application programming interface arranged between the people conveyor component and the at least one computing device. The method includes sending from the at least one computing device test related data via an application programming interface to a component of the people conveyor, receiving test related data via the application programming interface by the component when the component is connected to the communication channel, and responding from the component of the people conveyor to the local computing device and/or to the remote computing device via the application programming interface that the test related data was received and/or that a test was carried out or emulated based on the test related data.

A method for determining estimated real dimensions of an elevator car by: acquiring a virtual 2-dimensional map of the car based on data provided by a lidar sensor, the map representing reflection surfaces from which laser light emitted by the sensor is reflected; defining a rectangular starting area at a position located within the real dimensions of the car; successively extending the area by one pixel in each of four extension directions orthogonal to edges of the area, and when any pixel in one of the extension directions corresponds to one of the reflection surfaces in the map, stopping extending the area in this extension direction and successively extending the area by one pixel in each of the remaining extension directions the area is extended to a maximum in all the extension directions; and determining the fully extended rectangular area as the estimated real dimensions of the car.

A method and a device for monitoring characteristics of an elevator door motion procedure use a smart mobile device including multiple sensors. The method includes: (i) determining a time window, within which a door motion is assumed to occur, including a time interval enclosed by a start time limit and an end time limit and wherein at least one of the start time limit and the end time limit is determined based on first measurement values acquired by a first sensor in the smart mobile device; and (ii) detecting characteristics of the procedure based on second measurement values acquired during the time window by a second sensor in the smart mobile device. Using the method, door motion characteristics can be reliably monitored using a passenger's smart mobile phone while substantially limiting sensing and processing capacities required by the smart mobile phone as well as avoiding compromising passenger privacy requirements.

Elevator components can be equipped with an electronic information plate. The electronic information plate are associated with a particular electronic information plate that can store different properties of the associated component. The content of each electronic information plate is read manually or automatically and transmitted to a controller. The controller analyzes the received content and launches a predetermined action if the content indicates a possible mistake or a fraud.

A temporary platform for assembling elevator equipment in an elevator shaft is arranged substantially in the region of a shaft opening, such that the platform partially sits on a floor surface of the building and partially protrudes into the elevator shaft. The platform includes a bottom frame and bottom plates that lie on or are inserted into the bottom frame. The bottom frame also includes two lateral bottom bars, at least one front and one rear transverse bar that interconnect the two lateral bottom bars, and at least two intermediate bars that are arranged parallel to the two lateral bottom bars. The two intermediate bars are supported substantially by the front and the rear transverse bars.

An elevator system includes an elevator car within an elevator hoistway; a camera; a network; and an image analysis system in communication with the camera over the network; the camera providing a reference image to the image analysis system; the camera providing a current image to the image analysis system; the image analysis system comparing the current image to the reference image to detect a difference between the current image to the reference image; the image analysis system initiating a maintenance notification to a user device in response to the comparing.

The disclosure defined by this invention relates to an electronic control facility for a stairlift. The control facility includes an installation mode in which a number of steps to be undertaken at the time of installation of the stairlift are defined. The control facility also includes a user mode in which the operation of the stairlift is controlled by a user. According to the invention, the control facility is configured so that the user mode cannot be entered until all steps in the installation mode have been completed.

A method of monitoring a conveyance apparatus within a conveyance system, the method including: obtaining a health level of the conveyance system at a first conveyance apparatus location; determining a first identifier for the first conveyance apparatus location; displaying the health level for the conveyance system at the first conveyance apparatus location and the first identifier for the first conveyance apparatus location on a display device; determining a current location of an individual within the conveyance system; and displaying the location of the individual within the conveyance system on the display device.

The invention relates to a system for generating inspection information of a plurality of signalization elements of an elevator system. The system comprises: an elevator control unit configured to control the plurality of the signalization elements of the elevator system, and a mobile terminal device communicatively coupled to the elevator control unit. The mobile terminal device is configured to generate to the elevator control unit at least one control signal comprising an instruction to activate the plurality of the signalization elements according to a predetermined activation pattern. The elevator control unit is configured to activate the plurality of the signalization elements according to the predetermined activation pattern for generating inspection information in response to receiving the at least one control signal. The invention relates also to for generating inspection information of a plurality of signalization elements of an elevator system.