Elevator operation management system and elevator operation management method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11560288-B2
Application number	US-201716755995-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 30, 2017
Priority date	Oct 30, 2017
Publication date	Jan 24, 2023
Grant date	Jan 24, 2023

Abstract

To make it possible to comprehensively predict the movement of people by associating an elevator control system in a facility such as a building and an external system other than this system with each other and thereby provide a new service that has not existed before. There is provided an elevator operation management system for controlling and managing multiple elevator devices in a facility, the system including: a reception unit that acquires information on the number of users to use the elevator devices and elevator car destination information; a learning unit that stores and learns, as past experience data, the information on the number of users and the elevator car destination information acquired from the reception unit; a per-floor number-of-people estimation unit that estimates the number of users getting off at each elevator hall floor using storage information of the learning unit; and a request information output unit that outputs the number of people getting off thus estimated in the facility to a system other than the elevator operation management system.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An elevator operation management system for controlling and managing a plurality of elevator devices in a facility, comprising:
a reception unit that acquires information on the number of users to use the elevator devices and elevator car destination information;
a learning unit that stores and learns, as past experience data, the information on the number of users and the elevator car destination information acquired from the reception unit;
a per-floor number-of-people estimation unit that estimates the number of users getting off for each time slot as a total in each elevator hall floor using storage information of the learning unit; and
a request information output unit that outputs the number of people getting off thus estimated in the facility to a system other than the elevator operation management system.

2. The elevator operation management system according to claim 1 , wherein the elevator operation management system acquires information on an activity schedule in the facility, and estimates the number of users getting off at each elevator hall floor based on the activity schedule information and the past experience data.

3. The elevator operation management system according to claim 1 , wherein the elevator operation management system acquires operation information of a public facility, and estimates the number of users getting off at each elevator hall floor based on the operation information and the past experience data.

4. The elevator operation management system according to claim 1 , wherein the elevator operation management system outputs the number of people getting off estimated in the facility to the system other than the elevator operation management system while adding thereto information on the actual number of people getting off and prediction accuracy information.

5. The elevator operation management system according to claim 1 , wherein the number of people getting off estimated in the facility that is output to the system other than the elevator operation management system is the number of people in a preset time slot, and is provided as time-series information.

6. The elevator operation management system according to claim 1 , wherein the elevator car destination information is any of information on a direction in which an elevator car goes, a destination floor of an elevator car, and a location of an elevator car.

7. An elevator operation management method performed by an elevator operation management system for controlling and managing a plurality of elevator devices in a facility, comprising:
storing, as past experience data, information on the number of users to use the elevator devices and elevator car destination information;
estimating the number of users getting off for each time slot as a total in each elevator hall floor using the past experience data thus stored; and
outputting the number of people getting off thus estimated in the facility to a system other than the elevator operation management system.

8. The elevator operation management method according to claim 7 , wherein the elevator operation management system acquires information on an activity schedule in the facility, and estimates the number of users getting off at each elevator hall floor based on the activity schedule information and the past experience data.

9. The elevator operation management method according to claim 7 , wherein the elevator operation management system acquires operation information of a public facility, and estimates the number of users getting off at each elevator hall floor based on the operation information and the past experience data.

10. The elevator operation management method according to claim 7 , wherein the elevator operation management system outputs the number of people getting off estimated in the facility to the system other than the elevator operation management system while adding thereto information on the actual number of people getting off and prediction accuracy information.

11. The elevator operation management method according to claim 7 , wherein the number of people getting off estimated in the facility that is output to the system other than the elevator operation management system is the number of people in a preset time slot, and is provided as time-series information.

12. The elevator operation management method according to claim 7 , wherein the elevator car destination information is any of information on a direction in which an elevator car goes, a destination floor of an elevator car, and a location of an elevator car.

Assignees

• Hitachi Ltd

Inventors

• HATORI Takahiro
• Fujiwara Masayasu
• Omachi Akira
• Hoshino Takamichi
• Toriyabe Satoru
• Kato Manabu
• Fujino Atsuya
• Toriumi Wataru

Classifications

• B66B2201/223

  Taking into account the separation of passengers or groups · CPC title

• B66B1/20 Primary

  and for varying the manner of operation to suit particular traffic conditions, e.g. "one-way rush-hour traffic" {(B66B1/2466 takes precedence)} · CPC title

• B66B2201/402

  by historical, statistical or predicted traffic data, e.g. by learning · CPC title

• B66B3/00

  Applications of devices for indicating or signalling operating conditions of elevators · CPC title

• B66B2201/214

  Total time, i.e. arrival time · CPC title