Elevator systems and methods for building evacuation

摘要

In a method, an evacuation state is activated, and the number of people awaiting evacuation on specific floors is determined. At least one of a number of elevator cars and of evacuation times needed for the evacuation of specific floors is calculated based on the capacity of the aforementioned one or more elevator cars and of the number of people awaiting evacuation, and floor-specific evacuation is controlled to one or more exit floors.

主权项

1. A method for evacuating at least a portion of a building using an elevator system, the method comprising:
activating an evacuation state, the evacuation state defining at least one floor to be evacuated and at least one exit floor; determining a number of elevators safely usable for evacuating at least the portion of the building; determining a number of people awaiting evacuation on the at least one floor; calculating at least one of a number of elevator cars and evacuation times needed to evacuate the at least one floor based on a capacity of the elevator cars and the number of people awaiting evacuation; and controlling floor-specific evacuation to the at least one exit floor based on the at least one of the number of elevator cars and the evacuation times.