Intelligent building system for implementing actions based on user device detection

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10683190-B2
Application number	US-201515533619-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 15, 2015
Priority date	Dec 15, 2014
Publication date	Jun 16, 2020
Grant date	Jun 16, 2020

Abstract

A system and/or method that establishes a proximity environment with respect to an elevator and detecting a position of a user device within the proximity environment is provided. Further the system and method determines a source floor and a destination floor respective to the user device and generating an elevator call to the elevator in accordance with the source floor and the destination floor.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method, comprising:
establishing a proximity environment with respect to an elevator;
detecting a position of a user device within the proximity environment;
determining, by a processor, a source floor and a destination floor respective to the user device by accessing user preferences that correspond to the user device, the user preferences indicating the destination floor; and
generating, by the processor, an elevator call to the elevator in accordance with the source floor and the destination floor upon a detection by the proximity system of the user device within a predetermined distance to the elevator, the elevator call being generated without the need for an elevator user to interact with the user device.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the determining of the source floor and the destination floor, further comprises:
processing a pre-request received in advance of the user device penetrating the proximity environment.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the proximity environment is a plurality of virtual perimeters.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein each virtual perimeter is dynamically generated around a predefined set of boundaries with respect to the elevator.

5. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
communicating the elevator call to the user device.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the generating of the elevator call to the elevator, further comprises:
determining an arrival time for the user device at the elevator in response to motion of the mobile device.

7. A system, comprising a processor and a memory, the processor configured to:
establish a proximity environment with respect to an elevator;
detect a position of a user device within the proximity environment;
determine a source floor and a destination floor respective to the user device by accessing user preferences that correspond to the user device, the user preferences indicating the destination floor; and
generate an elevator call to the elevator in accordance with the source floor and the destination floor upon a detection by the proximity system of the user device within a predetermined distance to the elevator, the elevator call being generated without the need for an elevator user to interact with the user device.

8. The system of claim 7 , with respect to the determination of the source floor and the destination floor, the processor is further configured to:
process a pre-request received in advance of the user device penetrating proximity environment.

9. The system of claim 7 , wherein the proximity environment is a plurality of virtual perimeters.

10. The system of claim 9 , wherein each virtual perimeter is dynamically generated around a predefined set of boundaries with respect to the elevator.

11. The system of claim 7 , with respect to the generation of the elevator call to the elevator, the processor is further configured to:
determine an arrival time for the user device at the elevator in response to motion of the mobile device.

12. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
cancelling the elevator call if the user device leaves the proximity environment of an elevator landing before the elevator arrives.

13. A method, comprising:
establishing a proximity environment with respect to an elevator;
detecting a position of a user device within the proximity environment;
determining, by a processor, a source floor and a destination floor respective to the user device; and
generating, by the processor, an elevator call to the elevator in accordance with the source floor and the destination floor upon a detection by the proximity system of the user device within a predetermined distance to the elevator;
wherein the proximity environment comprises a first virtual perimeter and a second virtual perimeter, the second virtual perimeter contained entirely within the first virtual perimeter.

Assignees

• Otis Elevator Co

Inventors

• Chapman Ashley
• Scoville Bradley Armand
• Simcik Paul A
• Peterson Eric C
• Cominelli Donald F
• Spielbauer Hans-Kilian

Classifications

• B66B1/3492

  Position or motion detectors or driving means for the detector (B66B1/40, B66B1/50 take precedence; length measuring G01B; speed measuring G01P) · CPC title

• H04W4/021

  Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences · CPC title

• B66B2201/4638

  Wherein the call is registered without making physical contact with the elevator system · CPC title

• G06Q10/02

  Reservations, e.g. for tickets, services or events · CPC title

• B66B1/468 Primary

  Call registering systems · CPC title