When the received allocation request information indicates that the user information is obtained from the information communication terminal, the controller makes the storage unit store the allocation request information, and after elapse of a predetermined time from the reception of the allocation request information, reads the allocation request information to decide the allocation elevator to which the call relating to the allocation request information is to be allocated, and transmits information indicating the decided allocation elevator to the information communication terminal via a predetermined radio communication device.

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.

A system and method of initiating service of an elevator system including an elevator control system in communication with at least one elevator fixture including a communication bridge, communication switch, the elevator fixture in further communication with a plurality of communication modules. The method includes operating a mobile device to receive a travel request, operating the mobile device to wirelessly transmit to the communication module a travel signal based on the travel request, operating the plurality of communication modules to wirelessly receive the travel signal and to wirelessly transmit the travel signal to the elevator fixture, operating the elevator fixture to wirelessly receive the travel signal and to transmit the travel signal to the elevator control system, and operating the elevator fixture to receive dispatch information from the elevator control system and wirelessly transmit the dispatch information to the plurality of communication modules.

An autonomous mobile method for an autonomous mobile device according to the present embodiment is an autonomous mobile method for an autonomous mobile device that autonomously moves in a facility provided with an elevator. When the total number of the autonomous mobile devices including other autonomous mobile devices in a car of the elevator is larger than a threshold that is a plural number, an operation mode of the car is switched from a general mode in which a human is allowed to enter the car to a dedicated mode in which the human is prohibited from entering the car.

According to an aspect, there is provided a method for elevator call allocation in an elevator system. The method comprises receiving charge information associated with an energy storage of an elevator car from each of a plurality of elevator cars of the elevator system; receiving an elevator call to a floor providing a charging arrangement for the energy storages; and allocating the elevator call to an elevator car of the plurality of elevator cars at least partly based on the charge information received from each of the plurality of elevator cars.

A mobile terminal (7) has an acceleration sensor (8) and a direction sensor (9). The mobile terminal (7) includes a route specifying unit (11), a calculating unit (13), a determining unit (14), and a communicating unit (16). The calculating unit (13) calculates a feature quantity of a route specified by the route specifying unit (11) on the basis of the route specified by the route specifying unit (11). The communicating unit (16) transmits call information to the communicating device (6) when the determining unit (14) determines that the route specified by the route specifying unit (11) is a boarding route.

The invention relates to an elevator system that has a number of elevator operating devices which are arranged on floors (F1, F2) of a building and which are connected to an elevator controller. At least one first elevator operating device is permanently assigned to a single destination floor (L) such that inputting an elevator call on the first elevator operating device generates a destination call comprising data that specifies the floor (F1, F2) on which the first elevator operating device is arranged as the boarding floor and the destination floor (L) which is permanently assigned to the first elevator operating device as the destination floor (L). The first elevator operating device has a housing in which a display device, an input device, and a controller are arranged, wherein the controller is communicatively coupled to the elevator controller and actuates the display device such that the display device displays the destination floor (L) which is permanently assigned to the first elevator operating device and confirms the elevator call on the first elevator operating device after the elevator call is input using the input device.