Passenger guidance systems for a multicar elevator system and related methods are provided. The passenger guidance system includes a first landing door configured to provide access to at least one elevator car within a first lane, a second landing door configured to provide access to at least one elevator car within a second lane, a controller configured to receive information regarding the at least one elevator car within the first lane and the at least one elevator car within the second lane, and a first display controlled by the controller and configured to provide display information regarding a first elevator car in the first lane, the first elevator car of the first lane being one of (i) an elevator car currently located at the first landing door or (ii) an elevator car next to arrive at the first landing door.

Systems and methods for controlling environmental conditions in a building are described herein. The system determines real-time locations of one or more user devices. When an occupant of the building uses a user device to send a request to change an environmental condition, the system identifies a control zone that corresponds to a current location of the user device and determines a system setting for the subsystem that is associated with the requested change. The determined system setting is communicated to the subsystem to implement the change in the environmental condition at the control zone in response to the requested change.

Systems and methods for managing resources of a building are described herein. The system determines real-time locations of one or more user devices that correspond to persons within the building. When one of the user devices generates a reservation request to reserve an occupant space in the building, the system determines a space that matches the requests and assigns the space to the requesting user. Once the occupant space is assigned to the user, the system can further calculate personal routes that guide the user to and/or from the assigned space.

An elevator trip based on destinations and activity parameters of a user is planned by a system having an elevator controller of an elevator installation, a storage device storing building plan data and a route planning computer. The user's trip inquiry, including a desired destination and a desired activity parameter, is received by the planning computer. Building plan data is read from the storage device by the planning computer. The current location of the user is determined by the planning computer, which calculates at least one route proposal based on the user's location, the destination and the activity parameter. The route proposal is communicated to the user. Upon receipt of a confirmation that the user selected the route proposal, a control signal identifying a boarding floor and a destination floor is transmitted by the planning computer to the elevator controller. The elevator installation is controlled according to the control signal.

During an evacuation situation in a building that is equipped with an elevator system and in which a plurality of fixed point markers are arranged at defined sites, an escape route is transmitted to a person by means of a mobile device. The fixed point markers store data that can be received by the mobile device. An instantaneous position of the mobile device can be determined when the mobile device uses data received from a fixed point marker to access a database in which the data is linked to a site of the fixed point marker. The ascertainment of the escape route to a destination is based on the instantaneous position of the mobile device. The person is registered on reaching the destination when the mobile device is detected at the destination.

The present invention provides an in-building lift taking navigation terminal, system and method and belongs to the field of lift technology. The in-building lift taking navigation terminal provided by the present invention comprises: a query input module at least used for inputting destination floor position information and a query instruction; an optional lift taking path display module used for acquiring and displaying one or more optional lift taking paths from an initial floor position to a destination floor position; and a navigation information display module used for generating and displaying corresponding navigation information based on each of the lift taking paths. The present invention can provide convenient and clear in-building lift taking path navigation for the passenger, the passenger can thus conveniently and efficiently reach the destination floor position and has a good lift taking experience.

An elevator control system for an elevator system, including a display device, at least one processor in communication with the display device and the elevator system, the at least one processor programmed or configured to render, on the display device, a graphical destination interface with a plurality of visual representations of destinations within the building, receive a user selection of a selected destination from the plurality of destinations, determine a plurality of selectable options for elevator call requests based on the selected destination, render the plurality of selectable options for elevator call requests on the graphical destination interface or a second graphical call request interface, receive a user selection of a selected option from the plurality of selectable options for elevator call requests, and control movement of an elevator car in the elevator system based on the selected destination and the selected option.

Methods and systems for controlling an elevator system including receiving, at a controller of the elevator system, an assisted service request, conveying an elevator car to a landing indicated by the assisted service request, the elevator car defining a passenger space, and activating at least one illuminated indication zone to indicate an assistance region within the passenger space.

An elevator boarding area notification system includes a first read means displaced for each elevator at a boarding area and reads out passenger identification information from a device carried by a passenger; storing a destination floor in relation to the identification information; assigning an elevator car for the destination floor; reading out the identification information at a closer position to the elevator than the first read means reads out; making an agreement decision where the identification information about which assignment was performed by the assigner is read out by a second read means corresponding to the same elevator car, and making a disagreement decision when read out by a second read means corresponding to a different elevator; and making no notification when the first determination means makes an agreement decision, and making a notification of a destination floor and elevator when the first determination means makes a disagreement decision.

A computer-implemented method for generating content for a display on a dispatch kiosk includes using a computing structure remote from the dispatch kiosk to: (1) create a floor layout grid for each elevator hall in a building; (2) automatically generate a graph-based map model from the floor layout grid; (3) automatically calculate a plurality of walk path options from a call kiosk to a designated elevator based on the graph-based map model; (4) determine an optimal walk path from the call kiosk to the designated elevator from the plurality of walk path options; (5) automatically render a floor map image displaying the optimal walk path; and (6) communicate the floor map image from the computing structure to the dispatch kiosk in order to enable the dispatch kiosk to exhibit the floor map image on the dispatch kiosk display in response to an elevator call.