Elevator Lobby Guidance Beams for Unobstructed User Navigation
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Solution Overview
Problem
In elevator environments with restricted access, projector-based guidance solutions for user navigation are challenged by crowding, as beams are often obstructed by other users, necessitating improved methods for generating unobstructed guidance information.
Innovation Solution
A system that utilizes a control system to select and control beam-based indication devices with unobstructed views based on user and environmental data, adjusting guidance beams dynamically to ensure clear navigation, and switches to alternative devices or display systems when obstructions are detected.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If a projector-based guidance solution is used to provide user guidance information, then the guidance information can be displayed in the elevator lobby area, but the beam is blocked by other users in crowded environments
Solution Approach 1:
The guidance system is divided into multiple independent indication devices distributed throughout the elevator lobby area. Each device can independently generate and project guidance beams, ensuring that if one beam is blocked, other devices can still provide guidance information to users.
Solution Approach 2:
The control system acts as an intermediary that receives user location data and environmental information, processes this data, and selectively activates appropriate indication devices. This intermediary coordination ensures optimal beam placement to avoid obstructions while maintaining continuous guidance information delivery.
2Area of stationary object
If the gate devices are made smaller to reduce footprint, then the access control function is maintained with reduced space occupation, but the display devices become harder to arrange due to lack of room
Solution Approach 1:
The guidance information display is transitioned from a two-dimensional surface constraint to three-dimensional spatial utilization. By deploying multiple beam-based indication devices at different locations and orientations throughout the lobby area, the system overcomes the limited surface area around compact gate devices, providing comprehensive guidance coverage without requiring additional space at the gate device location.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
Enhances user guidance in congested elevator lobbies by maintaining clear visual cues, improving navigation efficiency and user experience.
Implementation Method 1
The at least two beam-based indication devices may be arranged within the elevator lobby area and configured to generate visual elevator related guidance information
Implementation Method 2
a projector-based guidance solution for providing the user guidance information. In the projector-based guidance solution, the projector generates a beam
Data Source
AI summary
A method guides users within an elevator lobby area and includes: obtaining elevator information related to a user entering the elevator lobby area via a gate device, obtaining location data of the user, obtaining continuously from a sensor system variable environment data of the elevator lobby area, selecting an indication device having an unobstructed guidance beam view from among at least two beam-based indication devices of an indication system based on the obtained location data of the user and the obtained variable environment data, and controlling the selected indication device to generate a guidance beam indicating elevator related guidance information for guiding the user. The elevator related guidance information includes the obtained elevator information. Also disclosed is a control system, an elevator lobby area guiding system, an elevator system, a computer program, and a computer-readable medium for guiding users within an elevator lobby area.