The invention relates to a method of providing a seamless wireless connection in an elevator system of a building. The method comprises receiving an elevator car request from a passenger who is on a source floor, dispatching an elevator car to the source floor in response to the elevator car request, selecting at least one wireless local area network (WLAN) established in the building, and forwarding the selected at least one WLAN via a network node placed in at least one of an elevator hall of the source floor, the dispatched elevator car, or an elevator hall of a destination floor.

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 elevator system selects a wireless communication system. The elevator system includes: an elevator car, a car control unit, and an elevator control unit. The car control unit and the elevator control unit establishes at least two wireless communication systems for providing wireless communication between the elevator control unit and the car control unit. The elevator control unit is configured to obtain selection data representing at least one selection parameter. The at least one selection parameter includes at least one elevator related selection parameter and/or at least one wireless communication system related selection parameter. The elevator control unit selects based on the obtained selection data the most appropriate wireless communication system at each point of time to be used to provide the wireless communication connection between the elevator control unit and the car control unit.

A passenger transport system includes a bus system transferring data between a central control unit and a plurality of field devices. In a failure detection method, the field devices are configured in an unbranched chain configuration and the control unit transmits a test telegram to a first field device to start a monitoring cycle during which each field device receiving the test telegram forwards the test telegram to a next field device in the chain. During the monitoring cycle, the control unit monitors a communication between the field devices occurring via the bus system, in order to detect when a field device does not forward the test telegram. A data volume transmitted via the bus system during the failure detection method is significantly reduced in comparison to conventional failure tests such that failures can be recognized more quickly and/or simpler hardware and/or software can be used.

The present invention provides an automatic elevator-calling system and an automatic elevator-calling control method, belonging to the technical field of elevator intelligent control technologies. The automatic elevator-calling system and the automatic elevator-calling control method of the present invention can configure an elevator calling distance in an adjustable manner, wherein the elevator calling distance indicates a distance between a personal mobile terminal that can sense a wireless signal and a wireless signal apparatus when the personal mobile terminal automatically sends an elevator calling request command. The present invention can further improve the elevator calling experience of the passenger.

A conveyor system includes a conveyor control unit, one or more conveyor components, and a communication system for providing data frame-based communication between the conveyor control unit, the one or more conveyor components, and/or one or more external or remote systems. The communication system includes: at least two virtual local area networks (VLANs) separated by respective tags, a first switch device configured to connect the one or more conveyor components to at least one of the at least two VLANs, a second switch device configured to connect the conveyor control unit and the one or more external or remote systems to at least one of the at least two VLANs, and a trunk link configured to carry the data frames belonging to the at least two VLANs between the first switch device and the second switch device. An elevator system and a conveyor device are also discloses.

The invention relates to an elevator system for observing a misoperation. The elevator system comprises an observation unit and a processing unit. The observation unit is configured to obtain data representing movement of an elevator car during a predetermined time interval and transmit the obtained data to the processing unit. The processing unit is configured to receive and store the data representing the movement of the elevator car, generate at least one statistical parameter from the received data, compare the at least one generated statistical parameter to at least one previously stored statistical parameter of the corresponding time interval, and generate a signal indicating a misoperation in response to a detection that the at least one generated statistical parameter deviates from the corresponding previously stored statistical parameter over a predetermined limit. The invention also relates to a method for observing a misoperation.

The present disclosure provides an information processing device, an information processing method, and an information processing system capable of improving convenience of use of a moving object on a route according to schedule information of a user.

An information processing device includes a control unit that determines whether or not a moving object is used on a route to a destination calculated on the basis of a current position and closest schedule information of a user and performs control to move the moving object used on the route to a riding place of the user.

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.

Modern elevators are computer controlled and a computer program sending service requests to an elevator system may be implemented in a mobile device. An API-manager is used in a mobile device for providing a common programming interface for all elevator related applications in the mobile device. The API-manager has a certificate that is used for identifying the person using the mobile device. Thus, it is possible to execute service requests that require authorization or access rights. When the identification is provided at the API-manager third party applications executed in the mobile device do not need own certificates. Furthermore, as the API-manager has a certificate service requests can be trusted also when the mobile application is provided by a third party.