CORRELATING ELEVATORS DESTINATION FLOORS WITH ELEVATORS SERVING THOSE FLOORS BY MEANS OF COLOR

摘要

Near or at each elevator lobby related to a group of floors serving a building, a floor identifier (39, 42, 52, 60) identifies with color, and optionally a symbol such as letter, each floor which is served by the group of elevators related to that lobby. At each elevator (26-29; 46-49) there is an elevator indicator (32-35; 32a-35a) which displays the same color, and optionally the same symbol, as displayed for any floor which the respective elevator is currently assigned to serve. With permanent sector assignments, colors are permanently assigned to each sector, so tenants seek out an elevator of the same color each morning to see which elevator is assigned to their floor at that particular point in time. During dynamic channeling, floors that are reassigned by a group dispatcher (58) into different sectors bear the colors of the new sector, making it easy for passengers to locate the correct car for their destination floors.