Equipment Service Graphical Interface for Elevator Status Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
Managing and overseeing equipment systems across multiple geographic locations with varying maintenance schedules and characteristics is challenging due to the large volume of data and geographical distribution, as seen in existing systems like the elevator maintenance business support system.
Innovation Solution
A graphical user interface that displays equipment locations and status using icons, with varying display characteristics based on operational conditions, and provides health scores, uptime indicators, and activity histories, allowing for interactive map views and detailed component schematics.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If detailed equipment servicing data is transmitted to all monitoring access systems, then comprehensive equipment status information is available, but network traffic increases significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts only the essential equipment status information and summary data from the comprehensive data repository, transmitting only what is necessary to monitoring access systems. This selective extraction reduces network traffic while maintaining the availability of critical equipment status information.
Solution Approach 2:
The data repository is segmented into different data types and access levels. The system provides summarized results for general monitoring while allowing detailed data access only when specifically requested or when viewing from the central location, thereby reducing unnecessary network traffic.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple monitoring access systems access the complete data repository, then all systems have full equipment data, but data transmission and processing overhead increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements local quality by providing different data views to different monitoring access systems based on their specific needs and locations. Each system receives customized summarized results appropriate to its function, rather than all systems receiving identical complete data sets.
Solution Approach 2:
The data repository system dynamically adjusts what data is transmitted to each monitoring access system based on real-time requirements, user permissions, and system priorities. This dynamic adaptation allows flexible data access while optimizing transmission efficiency.
3Loss of information
If comprehensive equipment data is displayed at all locations, then complete information is available everywhere, but display complexity and information overload increases
Solution Approach 1:
The graphical interface extracts and displays only the most relevant equipment status information at each monitoring location, rather than showing all available data. This selective display maintains information completeness for critical parameters while avoiding information overload.
Solution Approach 2:
The system displays summarized results that provide partial information sufficient for most monitoring purposes, with the option to access complete detailed data when specifically needed. This partial display approach improves usability while maintaining access to complete information.
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AI summary
A method 1100 comprises: identifying 1102 an entity and an entity location of a plurality of equipment; accessing 1104 a data repository comprising equipment servicing data associated with the equipment; and outputting 1106 a map image on a graphical user interface comprising one or more icons indicating equipment locations and status based on the equipment servicing data. The method 1100 further comprises selectively displaying 1108 one or more equipment status details responsive to a detected user input; and outputting a unit summary of units of the equipment at one or more equipment locations, wherein each of the units comprises an elevator system; and updating the graphical user interface with a plurality of unit status details based on detecting a unit selection. The method 1100 further comprises replacing the map image with a schematic view of a plurality of components of the elevator system comprising the unit selection.