2725 results about "Elevator control" patented technology

The invention relates to the elevator control field and the field of the Internet of Things, and provides an intelligent prediction, diagnosis and maintenance system for elevator faults on the basis of the Internet of Things. The intelligent prediction, diagnosis and maintenance system can effectively shorten the time of elevator halt caused by the elevator faults, improve the reliability of elevator running and the elevator maintenance efficiency and guarantee the personal safety and the property safety. According to the technical scheme of an intelligent prediction, diagnosis and maintenance method for the elevator faults on the basis of the Internet of Things, a data acquisition module collects elevator data in real time and transmits the collected data to a server through WIFI or the 4G wireless communication technology, the data are analyzed on the server side through the big data technology, and therefore the elevator faults which are possibly to occur can be predicted; if the elevator faults occur, a fault diagnosis system on the server side can be used for analyzing the faults, then the positions and the reasons of the faults can be provided, and then an intelligent maintenance system on the server side provides solutions to the faults. The intelligent prediction, diagnosis and maintenance method is mainly applied to the elevator control occasion.

The invention relates to an elevator health management and maintenance system based on the Internet of things and a collection and assessment method, wherein the elevator health management and maintenance system based on the Internet of things comprises a perception layer, a network layer and an application layer which are sequentially communicated through a network, the perception layer performs communication with the network layer by a VPN (virtual private network) or M2M (machine-to-machine), and the perception layer comprises a plurality of elevator data collection terminals which are respectively correspondingly arranged on a plurality of elevator controllers and have the same structure; the network layer comprises a cloud computing platform, a management center of the Internet of things and a GPRS (general packet radio service), 3G (third generation) and 4G (fourth generation) network management system; and the application layer comprises an elevator mass data processing module, an elevator health assessment module and an elevator intelligent maintenance module which are sequentially connected. The elevator health management and maintenance system disclosed by the invention can support large-scale elevator health monitoring and maintenance, is favorable for reducing the elevator maintenance cost and improving the elevator maintenance efficiency, and can keep minimal maintenance resource demands in reliability, availability and safety.

An elevator system having multiple elevator cars efficiently assigns cars and communicates the car assignments to the potential passengers. A hallway intuitive user interface is readily adapted to installations having varying numbers of elevator cars with varying floor access by incorporating a graphical display that is rendered accordingly. Moreover, a combination of visual, textual and aural indications are given to the passenger that the destination entered is valid and assigned to a car. For those instances where a potential passenger fails to enter a destination correctly, the elevator system retains a traditional elevator control interface in the elevator car.

A device for remote maintenance and monitoring of an elevator installation has at least one input for the detection of first signals from an elevator control and / or from a sensor, at least one output of second signals to a telecommunications network and a processor and a data memory. A set of remote maintenance functions is stored in the data memory and each of these remote maintenance functions is selectively activatable.

An intelligent elevator control system comprises an elevator controller, a central processing platform and a remote server. The central processing platform is installed in an elevator cage and connected with the elevator controller and the remote server. The central processing platform is used for providing an operation interface for an elevator riding user or directly recognizing the elevator riding authority of the elevator riding user. The central processing platform judges whether the user has the elevator riding authority according to the operation of the user or the automatic recognition result and through the combination of the identity information, stored in the remote server, of the elevator riding user and controls the elevator controller correspondingly. The elevator controller controls the elevator cage to run. The elevator riding authority of the user is managed, and the user can conveniently ride an elevator through wireless identity recognition measures; for the cloud service network information of the user, precise video advertisements can be automatically pushed to the user and property community public information can be automatically broadcasted to the user; the requirements for vision and information are met when the user rides the elevator.

The invention provides a face recognition elevator reservation system and an implementation method thereof, belonging to the technical fields of software and elevator. The face recognition elevator reservation system comprises a face identification module, a user stop-floor modeling module, a recognition result output module and an elevator control module, wherein, the face recognition module is arranged on an elevator lobby or in an elevator car to shoot the face data and taking state of the persons taking the elevator of a calling floor; corresponding relationship between the user face data and the number of the floor to take the elevator is built by setting the user stop-floor modeling module; a recognition result is fed back to a user by the recognition result output module; and a taking task is implemented or taking information is regulated in time by setting the elevator control module. In the invention, not only the elevator use permission is controlled, but also the security of official or living environment is improved, and user time is saved by recognizing and automatically setting a user stop floor.

The invention relates to an elevator emergency management technology supporting system. According to the technical scheme provided by the invention, the system consists of an emergency fault automatic alarm device and an emergency rescue commanding and dispatching system, wherein various operation signals of an elevator are acquired by the elevator emergency fault automatic alarm device, which isarranged in an elevator control cabinet, to logically judge; and when the elevator fails, a fault signal is transmitted to an emergency rescue commanding and dispatching center through a network in ashort time, information on position of the failed elevator, type of the fault, geographic position of nearby maintenance personnel, confirmation of whether people are closed in the elevator through avideo acquisition device and the like is displayed on a large-screen map, video (picture) is transmitted to the emergency rescue commanding and dispatching center, and the best personnel are informedto rush to the site for repair. The system has the beneficial effects that: the signal can be transmitted to the commanding and dispatching center at the first time when the elevator fails; the nearby maintenance personnel are arranged to implement the rescue through the commanding and dispatching center when the trapped passengers are comforted; and thus, emergency handling of the elevator faultis realized, and the elevator can better serve people.

A method of controlling access to an elevator car, in particular to its ceiling and / or underside, including the steps of switching the elevator control into a maintenance mode which controls the car to travel to a predetermined stop position permitting access, and opening a landing door of the elevator shaft the car is running in. The elevator control is switched into the maintenance mode only if operating a landing call receiving device in a predetermined identification pattern which differs from a call pattern for calling the elevator.

The invention discloses a system and a method for controlling an elevator enabling by swiping card by mobile phones. The system comprises an elevator control center, an elevator management module, an input module, an output module and a mobile phone identity authentication card reader. The system can realize elevator use function by swiping card by mobile phones; when entering the elevator, the users are distinguished in the elevator provided with the mobile phone identity authentication card reader by the mobile phone; the elevator management module automatically judges floor permission possessed by the users; the elevator arrives at the located floor according to user choice, otherwise the elevator does not operate; and meanwhile, the linkage of a third-party linkage communication interface of the elevator management module with other systems, such as a parking lot management system (51), a talkback access control system (52) or other intelligent systems can realize that a barrier gate is enabled directly through mobile phones of visitors when the visitors stop cars; and meanwhile, the access control system linkage and the elevator authentication realize that the visitors go through according to the designated permission in intelligent buildings. When fire control or other special conditions occur, the elevator recovers to an uncontrolled state. The invention realizes multi-system applications replacing traditional RFID cards to use elevators.

The invention relates to a method and a system for executing elevator control actions from a remote terminal in a remote control system. The remote control system comprises a remote terminal, one or more monitoring cameras as well as interface and data transfer means for the transmission of camera information, elevator status data and / or control commands between the elevator and the remote control system. The monitoring cameras are so directed that their combined image area substantially covers the operating area of the elevator. The remote terminal comprises a display device for the display of image information and elevator status data and means for starting elevator control functions. In the method, the operating area of the elevator is imaged by a monitoring camera or cameras, whose image information as well as the elevator status information is displayed on the display device of the remote terminal. Based on the image information and / or elevator status data, the control action to be executed is selected and an estimation as to whether the control action involves a risk of injury is performed. If no risk of injury exists, then the execution of the control action is started from the remote terminal.

The invention provides a management method and a system of a household elevator with the security protection function, which avoids the technical problem of potential safety hazard because persons without cards enter an elevator along with persons with cards. The invention adopts the technical scheme that the method is realized through the matched use of IC cards, an IC card verification device and an elevator control circuit, wherein the IC cards adopt a real-name and a one-person-one-card system, the steps of card punching verification and door closing are adopted after passengers open an elevator door at the bottom floor, the verification includes the checking on the legal identities of the passengers, the extraction of the floor room number and the verification on the legal passenger number, the elevator is directly lifted to the requested floor and the room with the requested room number, and the passengers punch the cards for a second time for opening the elevator door corresponding to the room number. The invention has the advantages that a passenger number counting device with a topological structure is adopted, the effects of flexibility and convenience can be realized during passenger number counting, the condition of error counting caused by baby carrying by adults is avoided, the personnel safety of the passengers is ensured, and the entering of miscellaneous personnel into buildings is effectively avoided.

An elevator rope sway detection method and a detection device using the same capable of detecting an elevator rope sway, generated by a building shake caused by an earthquake or strong wind, with high accuracy by preventing incorrect detections in detecting the elevator rope sway. A rope detector including a rope sway detector sends detection information detected by the rope detector to a rope determiner. A rope sway determination mechanism includes a detection signal memorization unit, a detection signal calculation unit, and a rope sway determination unit to determine that a rope sway occurs if the detection information sent from the rope detector fulfills a predetermined condition. A result determined by the rope sway determination unit is sent to an elevator controller, which performs an operation corresponding to the determined result.

The invention relates to a method and a system for executing elevator control actions from a remote terminal in a remote control system. The remote control system comprises a remote terminal, one or more monitoring cameras as well as interface and data transfer means for the transmission of camera information, elevator status data and / or control commands between the elevator and the remote control system. The monitoring cameras are so directed that their combined image area substantially covers the operating area of the elevator. The remote terminal comprises a display device for the display of image information and elevator status data and means for starting elevator control functions. In the method, the operating area of the elevator is imaged by a monitoring camera or cameras, whose image information as well as the elevator status information is displayed on the display device of the remote terminal. Based on the image information and / or elevator status data, the control action to be executed is selected and an estimation as to whether the control action involves a risk of injury is performed. If no risk of injury exists, then the execution of the control action is started from the remote terminal.

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a controller of an elevator, allowing the construction of a system which suppresses the wasteful consumption of power of a power storage device in power failure or standby condition.

An elevator installation with at least one shaft having a plurality of shaft doors is provided. At least two cars disposed one above the other travel up and down in the shaft. Each car has at least one car door. A safety device is provided for blocking the travel of the cars when the shaft doors or car doors are open. The safety device has at least two independent safety circuits, each having at least one shaft door and / or car door associated with it. Travel of at least one car can be blocked by means of the safety circuits.

In addition to the construction of a typical elevator control device in which power generated during regenerative operation is dissipated by a resistance chopper (18), an elevator control device is newly provided with: an electric double layer capacitor (21) connected in parallel with the DC capacitor (3) that smoothes the DC ripple of the rectifier circuit (2) that rectifies the AC power of the AC power source (1) and having an electrostatic capacitance that is considerably larger than this DC capacitor; a voltage detection circuit (22) that detects the terminal voltage of this electric double layer capacitor; and a drive control unit (5) that uses a voltage in the vicinity of the rated voltage of the electric double layer capacitor as the operating voltage of resistance chopper and, when the terminal voltage detected by a voltage detection circuit reaches the voltage in the vicinity of the rated voltage of the electric double layer capacitor, operates and controls the resistance chopper.

The invention discloses a method for controlling a robot to go into and out of an elevator. The method comprises the steps that whether the current floor where the robot is located is the target position floor or not is judged, whether the robot receives elevator current state information posted back by the elevator is judged, whether the robot needs to go into the elevator is judged, whether the robot receives arriving information posted back by the elevator is judged, whether a door of the elevator is opened is detected and judged, whether the robot encounters a barrier is detected, whether the robot successfully goes into the elevator is judged, whether the robot receives floor arriving information posted back by the elevator is judged, whether the door of the elevator is opened is detected and judged, and whether the robot receives control finishing information posted back by the elevator is judged; and the robot is controlled to receive the control finishing information posted back by the elevator, and control over robot going into and out of the elevator is completed. According to the method, information interaction is carried out through the robot and the elevator, the effect that the robot is fully automatically controlled to go into and out of the elevator is achieved through logical judgment, and intelligentized management of the robot is greatly facilitated.

The invention discloses an elevator control method based on face recognition. The elevator control method includes the steps that face image information is collected, and a matched database is established; the elevator control authority of each elevator user is set; and face information of each person entering an elevator is obtained and is matched with the face information in the matched database, and whether the ban on an elevator panel button control module is lifted or the ban is put on the elevator panel button control module is judged according to whether matching succeeds or not. According to the elevator control method, face recognition of elevator persons can be achieved, authority distribution is conducted on the elevator persons typed in the database, the visitor authority of each floor can be set, and the safety grade of a building is improved; and meanwhile, face recognition is adopted, and face recognition is more convenient and faster compared with traditional card reading and fingerprint recognition.

A controller for a lift, includes a communication module configured to wirelessly transmit data relating to the personnel operating and operating conditions of a lift to a remotely located station. The remote station wirelessly sends satisfaction or non-satisfaction messages to the lift controller in response to received input data or sensed conditions relating to the operation of the lift. The lift controller includes circuitry for obtaining and / or storing the sensed conditions and received input data, where the communication module then transmits this information to a remote station using a wireless network either public or private depending on the desired application. In accordance with one implementation, the sensed conditions can include a lift state, a motion of the lift, a load applied to the lift, a lift temperature, a hydraulic fluid pressure, a wait time for recharging a hydraulic pump, an operator safety condition and a number of cycles of operation of the lift. The operator safety conditions may include, for example, whether the operator is using both hands for inputting a command into the lift controller, whether the vehicle is properly parked, whether the operator is off a deck of the lift, and whether the operator is clear of a projected motion pay of the lift.

The invention discloses a method and system for a robot to take an elevator autonomously. The system comprises an elevator control module for controlling operation of the elevator; an elevator takingcontrol server in communication connection with the elevator control module; the robot in communication connection with the elevator taking control server; and an elevator taking control server used for carrying out information and operation instruction interaction with the robot and the elevator control module. According to the system, the elevator taking control server is arranged; butt joint and information interaction between the elevator control module and the robot system are realized; voice and visual sensors of the robot and the elevator are utilized; through the layout of the sensors,the robot can identify the position of itself; through fusion processing of multiple modes such as sensor sensing and Internet of Things interconnection, information of the robot, the elevator and the server is accurately and reliably obtained; and thus, the robot can still accurately obtain floor information even if the network is not smooth, and takes the elevator autonomously.

An intelligent destination elevator control system streamlines the efficiency and control of destination elevators. The system monitors a building's population and predicts elevator traffic conditions. The system may monitor attributes of the destination elevators. Based on the monitored data, the system may generate a data structure that renders time-tables and target elevator service quality parameters that may control the destination elevators. A time-table and target elevator service quality parameters may be selected to control destination elevators according to one or more customer selectable mode of operation parameters. The data structure may be processed to control UP and / or DOWN transportation capacities of the destination elevators while satisfying the one or more customer selectable mode of operation parameters.Some intelligent destination elevator control systems may control when elevator cars of a group service the floors of a building. Control of the elevator cars may be flexible to allow the system to increase or decrease traffic capacities of the elevator cars in accordance with anticipated traffic conditions.

The invention discloses a method and a device for automatic landing leveling control of a small unmanned aerial vehicle. The landing leveling control device consists of a pitch attitude control circuit and an airspeed control circuit. Aiming at the problem that unmanned air vehicle with a simple sensor can not acquire vertical speed information and vertical acceleration speed information with required precision, the method and the device make full use of an available sensor information and calculate an expected pitch attitude g(t), an expected pitch attitude g'(t) containing correction, an expected airspeed vg(t), an expected airspeed vg'(t) containing correction, elevator control command delta Z(t), an engine chock valve command delta(t) and so on to realize control procedures in the control circuits and achieve the aim of automatic landing leveling control. Meanwhile, remote control operating personnel can operate an operating lever of an elevator and an operating lever of a chock valve in a leveling process according practical situation and carry out correction control of automatic leveling, thereby effectively improves the anti-interference capacity and landing precision of an airplane.

A control panel is divided into units in accordance with each control function, units to be controlled by or connected to the divided unit are divided into unit groups in accordance with a place where the unit is to be disposed, and unit groups having a relationship form a control section, the control section being disposed in the vicinity of the unit group so that it is unnecessary to provide a large integral control panel. There is no difficulty in finding an installation place for the control panel, it is unnecessary to prepare a special machine room, it is possible to provide the control panel in an empty space around the respective unit to be controlled, and to effectively use the building while enhancing the layout of the units and it is possible to quickly control a localized situation for the unit to be controlled.

An intelligent elevator controlling method and device based on distributed multi-channel CAN bus is disclosed. Said device is composed of a cluster operating controller, single-elevator controllers communiated with said cluster operating controller via CAN bus, and the cage controllers, floor calling controllers, LCD controllers and speech floor reporting controllers respectively for each of elevators. Its control method is also disclosed.

The invention relates to a method for remotely diagnosing an elevator system (10) comprising at least one elevator car (16) that can be displaced in a shaft (12) by means of a drive device (22, 24), and to an elevator control device (30) having at least one signal processing component (60) and at least one memory element (62), wherein the elevator control device (30) controls the operation of the elevator system (10). In order to further develop the method, such that the method is more cost-effective and less error-prone, the invention proposes that availability, fault, and / or event data of the elevator system (10) are detected, saved in the memory element (62), and analyzed by means of the signal processing component (60), and that the location of the elevator system (10), together with status information depending on the results of the analysis of the saved data is transmitted via the Internet (78) to at least one data receiver (81, 82, 83) and displayed on the monitor (85) thereof on a map that can be updated via the Internet (78), and that the saved data are made accessible to particular target groups via the Internet (78). The invention relates to an elevator system (10) for performing the method.

A device and a system for the modernization of an elevator installation having at least one elevator and at least one elevator control for controlling the elevator by way of at least one call report. The elevator installation is equipped with a destination call control during preparatory operations for modernization which control includes at least one floor terminal for the input of destination call reports or for the recognition of identification codes of users. The destination call control also includes at least one computing unit for evaluating the destination call reports or for association of destination floors with recognized identification codes. The computing unit issues at least one destination signal and controls the elevator installation by way of at least one device. The device reads the destination signal, converts it into at least one call report and controls an existing elevator control by the call report.

A method for the modernization of an elevator installation having at least one elevator and at least one elevator control for controlling the elevator by way of at least one call report. The elevator installation is equipped with a destination call control during preparatory operations for modernization which control includes at least one floor terminal for the input of destination call reports or for the recognition of identification codes of uses. The destination call control also includes at least one computing unit for evaluating the destination call reports or for association of destination floors with recognized identifications codes. The computing unit issues at least one destination signal and controls the elevator installation by way of at least one device. The device reads the destination signal, converts it into at least one call report and controls an existing elevator control by the call report.

An elevator (9) includes remote elevator monitoring equipment (10) connected by a communication linkage (12) to a central elevator monitoring and control station (11). Main, drive, and door controllers (16-18) are interconnected (19-21) with the monitor lines. Power-on-reset (POR) of controllers may be caused internally or by remotely-operable power relays (23-25) which interrupt power to the controllers. Maintenance personnel at the remote station (11) may order a POR through the communication linkage. In another embodiment, the remote elevator monitor (10) determines presence of a malfunction which a POR may cure and causes a POR internally or by a power relay. In another embodiment, the controller (16a) includes, in its program routines, elevator diagnostics (50) which can recognize an elevator malfunction which a POR may cure, and either cause the relay to interrupt power for an interval or cause an internal POR.