Embodiments of systems and methods for digital control of elevator and other access gateways are described herein. More specifically, embodiments comprise systems and methods for retrofitting or outfitting elevator systems with digital control systems that can be universally applied to virtually every manufacturer's elevator systems.

An elevator installation has elevator operating devices arranged on floors of a building and communicatively connected to an elevator controller. The elevator operating devices include main operating devices configured for inputting a destination floor desired by a passenger and for outputting travel information, and at least one secondary operating device arranged on one of the floors. The secondary operating device is next to the main operating device on the one floor and is communicatively connected to the elevator controller. The secondary operating device has a touch-sensitive screen system that confirms a destination floor, input by touch, by a tactilely perceptible feedback in order to support a passenger with a physical limitation when inputting a call. The elevator controller determines travel information for the destination floor input on the secondary operating device and communicates this information to the passenger by the main operating device arranged next to the secondary operating device.

Aspects of the invention are directed towards a system and a method for automatically calling an elevator. One or more embodiments of the invention describe a method comprising steps of receiving, from an accessing device, a state of the accessing device associated with the premises and prompting a user of a user device to provide information based on the state. The method further comprising step of transmitting a request to the accessing device for automatically calling an elevator based on the information provided by the user.

An elevator system has an elevator controller system to control movement of an elevator car between a predetermined number of floors of a building, and an elevator operating panel communicatively coupled via a multicore cable to the elevator controller system. The elevator operating panel includes at least one push-button having an open state and a closed state, wherein the push-button is configured to close in the closed state a wire loop of the multicore cable, and wherein the push-button is configured to be in the closed state when a user presses the push-button to enter an elevator call. In addition, the elevator system includes an ancillary operating panel arranged next to the elevator operating panel and having a proximity sensor for touchless entry of an elevator call.

A distributed processing system for processing an elevator call, a method for processing an elevator call using the distributed processing system, and a computer readable storage medium on which a computer program for realizing an elevator call generation method is stored. A distributed processing system for processing an elevator call includes a plurality of wireless communication modules deployed in an elevator service area, each of the wireless communication modules is associated with one or more call units and configured to: perform a call assignment operation in response to an elevator call from a terminal device specifying it as a target wireless communication module; and return a message about call assignment to the terminal device.

A processor obtains an audio sample captured by an audio sensor associated with a device and/or image data captured by an image sensor associated with the device. The image data comprises a representation of one or more elevator buttons. The processor analyzes the audio sample to identify a floor name indicator in the audio sample and/or the image data to identify an activated elevator button from among the one or more elevator buttons represented by the image data; and determines a floor name based on the floor name indicator identified in the analyzed audio sample and/or a floor name indicator associated with the identified activated elevator button in accordance with the analyzed image data. The processor causes the determined floor name to be stored and/or provided for positioning purposes.

A passenger waiting assessment system including: a sensor; and a dispatcher including: a processor; and a memory including computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations, the operations including: receiving a number of elevator calls; assigning the elevator calls to an elevator car of a first elevator system; moving the elevator car of the first elevator system to a landing; detecting, using the sensor, a number of individuals waiting to use the elevator car of the first elevator system; and stopping assignment of any further elevator calls to the elevator car of the first elevator system when the number of individuals is greater than a threshold value.

A method for dispatching a plurality of elevator cars that includes receiving a call for at least one of the plurality of elevator cars. The call is from a first location of a plurality of locations. The method includes determining an occupant capacity for each of the plurality of elevator cars by determining a number of occupants within the plurality of elevator cars and determining a number of calls assigned to the plurality of elevator cars and positioned between a current location of the plurality of elevator cars and the first location. The method includes assigning the call from the first location to a first elevator car with an available occupant capacity that is greater than the occupant capacity of the plurality of elevator cars.

An elevator control system has control over a door of an elevator and, thus, directly controls opening and closing of the door of an elevator which a robot is to board or alight from based on state information of the robot received from a robot control system.

A fault location unit of a landing door safety circuit includes: a fault collection circuit, which is disposed corresponding to the landing door locking fault monitoring module of the landing door safety circuit at a certain landing, and which is configured to collect a signal indicating landing door locking fault from only the landing door locking fault monitoring module at said certain landing and output a corresponding electrical level signal; and a fault sending component, which is electrically connected to the fault collection circuit in a one-to-one correspondence, and which is configured to send corresponding fault information containing landing information of the landing based on the received electrical level signal.