Patent ID: 9481548
Filing Date: 2016-11-01
CPC Classification: B66B

Claim Text:
1. A smart elevator system including one or more elevator cars, comprising: a plurality of sensors, at least one of the plurality of sensors associated with a floor elevator door of a corresponding elevator car on a floor of a structure or associated with the corresponding elevator car, wherein the sensors detect a number of persons awaiting elevator service at one or more corresponding floors in the structure or receiving elevator service of a corresponding elevator car and transmit data signals of the number of persons detected, the number of persons detected including a number of persons detected within a downward elevator transport zone and a number of persons detected within an upward elevator transport zone of a designated waiting area; one or more receiving processors associated with one or more floor elevator doors or associated with one or more corresponding elevator cars, wherein the one or more receiving processors receive the data signals transmitted from one or more corresponding sensors and determine passenger traffic data corresponding to data signals; and at least one master processor associated with a corresponding one or more elevator cars in the structure, wherein the at least one master processor receives the passenger traffic data from the one or more receiving processors or from one or more corresponding sensors in the smart elevator system and determines at least one transport path to at least one floor location for corresponding one or more elevator cars, based on the received passenger traffic data, the at least one transport path including selective upward or downward movement of the one or more elevator cars dependent upon the transmitted data signals representative of the number of persons detected within the downward elevator transport zone and the number of persons detected within the upward elevator transport zone.