Patent ID: 8253548

Claim:
An elevator call system comprising: a hall call switch module including a hall call button, a pressure responsive power generator, and a wireless transmitter powered by the power generator as a result of pressure applied by actuation of the button to transmit a hall call signal; and a hall lantern module mounted on a hoistway wall, the hall lantern module including a display that includes up and down button indicators and up and down hall car arrival indicators; an antenna; an RF transceiver connected to the antenna for wirelessly receiving the hall call signal from the wireless transmitter of the hall call switch, wirelessly transmitting hall call information to an elevator control system, and wirelessly receiving elevator location information from the elevator control system; and a processor for controlling operation of the up and down button indicators of the display based upon the hall call signal and the up and down hall car arrival indicators of the display based upon the elevator location information, wherein the hall lantern module is physically spaced from the hall call switch module and has no wired connection to the hall call switch module.