Elevator Favorite Floor List Automation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing elevator systems require manual configuration and maintenance of passenger-specific favorite floors, leading to increased costs and inflexibility, especially when passenger travel habits change or when passengers have multiple preferred floors.
Innovation Solution
An automated method and system that updates passenger-specific favorite floor lists based on travel history and usage patterns, using identification technologies like RFID or mobile codes, to dynamically adapt and highlight preferred floors for easy access.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If manual configuration is used to set up passenger favorite floors, then the system can be initially configured, but maintenance costs increase and flexibility is reduced when passenger travel habits change
Solution Approach 1:
The elevator system automatically learns and updates passenger favorite floors by monitoring elevator calls and travel patterns. The system serves itself by maintaining its own database of passenger preferences without requiring manual configuration or administrator intervention, thereby reducing maintenance complexity while increasing adaptability to changing travel habits
Solution Approach 2:
The system continuously monitors elevator call data and passenger travel patterns, using this feedback to dynamically update favorite floor lists. This closed-loop feedback mechanism enables the system to adapt automatically to changing passenger preferences without manual reconfiguration, resolving the contradiction between flexibility and maintenance complexity
2Adaptability or versatility
If manual configuration is used to maintain passenger information, then the system can be controlled, but maintenance costs increase and the system cannot adapt to changing travel habits
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically maintains passenger favorite floor information by monitoring elevator calls and travel patterns. This self-maintenance capability eliminates the need for manual updates, saving time and enabling the system to adapt continuously to changing travel habits without human intervention
Solution Approach 2:
The system continuously monitors and updates passenger preferences in real-time as elevator calls are made. This continuous automatic updating ensures the system always has current information about passenger travel habits, eliminating the time loss associated with periodic manual updates while maintaining high adaptability
3Adaptability or versatility
If only one default floor is assigned per passenger, then the system is simple, but it cannot accommodate passengers with multiple favorite floors
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically maintains a list of multiple favorite floors for each passenger based on actual elevator call patterns. Instead of a static single default floor, the system continuously adapts the favorite floor list to reflect the passenger's actual travel preferences, supporting multiple floors without requiring overly complex manual configuration mechanisms
Solution Approach 2:
The system automatically builds and maintains multiple favorite floor lists for each passenger by monitoring their elevator calls. This self-organizing capability allows the system to support multiple favorite floors naturally through data collection and pattern recognition, avoiding the need for complex manual setup while providing versatile multi-floor support
4Reliability
If passenger information is manually removed when they cease visiting, then the system can be cleaned up, but it requires manual intervention and increases maintenance workload
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically detects when a passenger has ceased using the elevator by monitoring call patterns over time. When no calls are detected from a passenger identifier within a specified period, the system automatically removes that passenger's information from the favorite floor database, maintaining data accuracy without requiring manual intervention or increasing maintenance workload
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AI summary
The present invention discloses a solution for maintaining passenger-specific favorite floor lists in an elevator system, which comprises at least one elevator, call-giving devices for registering calls given by the passengers, a control system that is responsive to the aforementioned calls and memory means, in which is recorded at least one passenger-specific favorite floor list. A passenger is identified in connection with giving a call on the basis of the ID number of an identifier. The favorite floor list is updated on the basis of calls given by the passenger and/or a given updating criterion.