A method for verifying the brake force of an electromagnetic elevator brake includes the steps of closing the brake, supplying electrical current to the brake up to a preset verification level and determining whether there has been any movement of the elevator car being braked.

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.

To have an integrated device management for a hybrid elevator environment, at least one converter for converting device management messages according to a second protocol used by one or more peripheral devices to be according to a first protocol, which is used by the device management of the elevator environment, is added to the elevator environment. Further, the device management is configured to update, in response to receiving a device management message containing, as device information, at least an identifier of a peripheral device, network information to contain the device information in the device management message.

An elevator system (2) comprises an elevator car (4a-d) that is moveable within a hoistway (6a-d). The elevator car (4a-d) comprises a first wireless communication unit (12a-d). A controller (8a-d) is arranged to communicate with the elevator car (4a-d) , the controller (8a-d) comprising a second wireless communication unit (14a-d). The first and second wireless communication units (12a-d, 14a-d) are arranged to exchange elevator operational data using a wireless communication protocol. Each data symbol within a set of data symbols corresponding to the elevator operational data is modulated onto a plurality of orthogonal sub-carriers using an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing modulation scheme. The modulated plurality of orthogonal sub-carriers are transmitted between the first and second wireless communication units (12a-d, 14a-d) over a wireless interface (16a-d).

A method of communication between a robot and an elevator system using a robot communication system including: collecting data on a landing of a building using a sensor system of the robot; and transmitting the data to the elevator system of the building, the data being transmitted to the elevator system directly from the robot, through a cloud computing network, or through a building system manager.

An interaction safety control between an elevator system and a machine passenger. An interaction safety control method between an elevator system and a machine passenger, which includes: receiving a command from the machine passenger; based on a received command, determining the safety of the command with respect to the elevator system; and in case that the command is determined to be unsafe with respect to the elevator system, not sending the command to an elevator control device of the elevator system.

Provided are embodiments of a method for operating a receiverless device positioning. The method includes receiving a first request corresponding to a first location, registering data associated with the first request, and receiving a second request at a second location, the first location is different than the second location. The method also includes comparing the first and second location, and time between the first request and the second request, and allowing the second request based at least in part on the comparison. Also provided are embodiments of a system configured to perform receiverless positioning.

A method for automatically updating software of a computing device of a transportation device is provided herein. The method includes performing, by a server device, machine learning on run count performance data of the transportation device to determine a next idle time. The method includes publishing, by the server device, software availability information to the computing device of the transportation device with the next idle time. The method includes causing, by the server device, an automatic upgrade of the software of the computing device of the transportation device at the next idle time.

Disclosed is a method for connecting a first device that is configured for moving to a non-moving network, having: transmitting data over a wired data line from the first device to a second device, wherein the second device is stationary; transmitting the data from the second device over a wireless network; receiving further data by the second device from the wireless network; and transmitting the further data from the second device to the first device.

Commissioning of a transportation infrastructure peripheral device in a transportation infrastructure control network is disclosed. In the arrangement a peripheral device is attached to a transportation infrastructure control network through a network element or directly to a controller. When the connection has been made, a process for identifying and granting appropriate access rights is initiated. As a result, common network technologies can be used for transmitting information that is critical for elevator operation.