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As anyone who's been asked to write an elevator emulator, it hard to optimize even when just going up and down. The extra mechanicals to go building to buildin

As anyone who's been asked to write an elevator emulator, it hard to optimize even when just going up and down. The extra mechanicals to go building to building would be non-trivial. You'd have to use destination dispatch, which you tell the elevator console outside which floor, and it tells you which elevator to get on. You can't control the elevator destination from inside the elevator. I encountered one of these systems on my last trip to NY. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destination_dispatch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destination_dispatch

wil421 8y ago
Recently I worked at a company that used the destination dispatch concept. It was terrible and during peak times huge groups of people would be waiting for their elevator. Not to mention you would easily miss your elevator in certain situations. Elevators would also become overpacked if only one person in a group selected a floor but this is more user error than anything. I much prefer the approach where certain elevators go to certain floors. My building was only 20 stories but I’d imagine it would be even more of a headache in NYC. Cross building destination dispatch would be terrible IMHO.
- RandallBrown 8y ago
  I stayed in a hotel using destination dispatch and it was pretty comical to watch. They actually had someone standing outside of the elevator part of the day explaining to guests how it worked. A lot of people also seemed to think you could only make one floor request at a time. A large group of people was waiting at the elevator and after the elevator came for one of their floors, only one person came up to enter their floor. The look of surprise on their face when I walked over and pressed my floor and almost immediately got an elevator was pretty great. I think the real problem with destination dispatch is that people just don't know how to use it yet.
noer 8y ago
There's one in the New York Times building and the first time I used it, I found it to be confusing & unsettling (since most people are conditioned to walking into the first open car they see)
- acomjean 8y ago
  I can see that in an office environment. Especially with access control. I was curious how it would work, so I went off to google for some product info. some features that give me pause (what could possibly go wrong?): "In addition, you can connect your elevators to tenant databases for increased building security." "Grant private and priority elevator service for select tenants" "Upload and display personalized images and messages" this was just weird: "AGILE augmented reality application" https://www.thyssenkruppelevator.com/elevator-products/agile https://www.thyssenkruppelevator.com/elevator-products/agile

wil421 8y ago

Recently I worked at a company that used the destination dispatch concept. It was terrible and during peak times huge groups of people would be waiting for their elevator. Not to mention you would easily miss your elevator in certain situations. Elevators would also become overpacked if only one person in a group selected a floor but this is more user error than anything. I much prefer the approach where certain elevators go to certain floors. My building was only 20 stories but I’d imagine it would be even more of a headache in NYC. Cross building destination dispatch would be terrible IMHO.

RandallBrown 8y ago
I stayed in a hotel using destination dispatch and it was pretty comical to watch. They actually had someone standing outside of the elevator part of the day explaining to guests how it worked. A lot of people also seemed to think you could only make one floor request at a time. A large group of people was waiting at the elevator and after the elevator came for one of their floors, only one person came up to enter their floor. The look of surprise on their face when I walked over and pressed my floor and almost immediately got an elevator was pretty great. I think the real problem with destination dispatch is that people just don't know how to use it yet.

noer 8y ago

There's one in the New York Times building and the first time I used it, I found it to be confusing & unsettling (since most people are conditioned to walking into the first open car they see)

acomjean 8y ago
I can see that in an office environment. Especially with access control. I was curious how it would work, so I went off to google for some product info. some features that give me pause (what could possibly go wrong?): "In addition, you can connect your elevators to tenant databases for increased building security." "Grant private and priority elevator service for select tenants" "Upload and display personalized images and messages" this was just weird: "AGILE augmented reality application" https://www.thyssenkruppelevator.com/elevator-products/agile https://www.thyssenkruppelevator.com/elevator-products/agile