On-site getting in and out data including the number of people who got in the elevator in the past is created, virtual getting in and out data including the number of people who get in the elevator is created by making people who arrive at a landing of the elevator virtually appear and simulating operation of the elevator on the basis of the number of people who appear, a first conversion model for converting the virtual getting in and out data before a certain time point into the number of people who appear after the certain time point and a second conversion model for converting the virtual getting in and out data after a certain time point into the number of people who appear before the certain time point are created on the basis of the number of people who appear and the virtual getting in and out data, a prediction model for predicting the number of people who appear after a certain time point from the number of people who appear before the certain time point is learned on the basis of the number of people who appear converted by the second conversion model, and the number of people who appear after a certain time point is predicted from the on-site getting in and out data before the certain time point by using the first conversion model and the prediction model.

Devices, methods and computer programs for monitoring, processing and/or adjusting of elevator emergency stopping events are disclosed. At least some of the disclosed embodiments allow measuring automatically the performance of an elevator emergency stopping event protection function, and the invention can be utilized together with manual checks for adjusting parametrization of the elevator emergency stopping event protection function. The invention further allows separate safety parameters for up and down direction. Measurements can be done separately to both directions and related safety parameters can be adjusted based on those.

An elevator access control system comprises at least two cameras (14, 16) including: a first camera (14) which is configured to be mounted to an elevator car (6) for capturing at least one first picture of persons residing within the elevator car (6), and a second camera (16) which is configured to be mounted to the elevator car (6) for capturing at least one second picture of persons residing within the elevator car (6). The at least one first picture allows to identify individual persons, and the at least one second picture allows to count the number of persons residing within the elevator car (6).

The invention relates to an elevator comprising an electric linear motor comprising at least one linear stator designed to be located in a fixed correlation to an environment, particularly building, and at least one mover designed for connection with an elevator car to be moved and co-acting with the stator to move the car, which motor comprises a stator beam supporting said at least one stator, which stator beam has at least one side face carrying ferromagnetic poles of said stator spaced apart by a pitch, and which mover comprises at least one counter-face facing said side face(s) of the stator beam, in which counter-face electro-magnetic components of the mover are arranged to co-act with the ferromagnetic poles mounted on the stator beam, which elevator comprises an elevator brake. According to the invention the side face of the stator beam facing the mover and/or the counter face of the mover facing the side face of the stator beam comprise(s) a brake surface which form(s) the brake interface of the elevator brake.

A vibration damping device for reducing vibration of an elevator rope includes a displacement amplifier arranged around a region from a first portion of the elevator rope drawn and a second portion of the elevator rope drawn from an opposite side of one or more sheaves in parallel with the first portion. The displacement amplifier is configured to amplify a displacement of each of the first portion and the second portion of the elevator rope. The device also includes a limiting member that controls displacement amplification performed by the displacement amplifier such that the displacement of the first portion or the second portion amplified by the displacement amplifier does not become greater than a first displacement, which is a displacement of the elevator rope by which the elevator rope is not allowed to return to an equilibrium position of the vibration.

One embodiment provides a method for optimizing schedules of a plurality of elevators in a building having a plurality of floors, including: receiving, from a user, an indication requesting that an elevator from the plurality of elevators stop at a particular floor, wherein each of the plurality of elevators has a schedule comprising floors where the elevator will stop; identifying the number of users in the elevator waiting area of each of the particular floors where an indication requesting a stop has been received; and updating, in view of the identified number of users at each of the particular floors, the schedule for the plurality of elevators to optimize the stops for the plurality of elevators, wherein the updating comprises dynamically routing the plurality of elevators upon (i) receipt of indications and (ii) identification of the number of users at each of the particular floors.

Brake release sensors for an elevator can be replaced by an arrangement wherein the brake release is determined from the force caused by the brake. This is achieved by providing measuring device for measuring the weight of an elevator car between the brake and the motor body so that the weight of the elevator car is measured only when the brake is on.

A method of operating a first elevator system including a first elevator car including detecting an individual using a sensor system of a first robot; and notifying a dispatcher of the first elevator system that the individual was detected.

A control system and method for elevator-waiting position of a robotic passenger. A control system for elevator-waiting position of a robotic passenger includes: a detection device configured to detect whether a first-choice elevator-waiting position has been occupied; and a position allocation unit configured to if the first-choice elevator-waiting position is not occupied, determine the first-choice elevator-waiting position as a target elevator-waiting position; and if the first-choice elevator-waiting position has been occupied, determine a candidate elevator-waiting position as the target elevator-waiting position or issue a prompt.

A method of collecting data using a robot data collection system including: collecting data on a landing of a building using a sensor system of a robot; transmitting the data to a conveyance system of the building; and adjusting operation of the conveyance system in response to the data.