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elevator UI the Miconic 10, a smart elevator system that allows users to enter their floor onto a keypad. "The first U.S. installation of Miconic 10 was at th

elevator UI the Miconic 10, a smart elevator system that allows users to enter their floor onto a keypad. "The first U.S. installation of Miconic 10 was at the Ameritech building in Indianapolis in 1993. The next generation added a radio frequency identification, or RFID, reader to the keypad to identify passengers, so tenants could swipe their ID badge or card to call an elevator. In 2009, Schindler launched the third generation, called PORT (it stands for “Personal Occupant Requirement Terminal”), a software-driven system that uses a touch-screen and learns movement patterns, enabling it to personalize its offerings to each passenger. I was just at a hotel where I had to: 1. press the up button 2. swipe a room (key) card on the elevator 3. often swipe again because the card needs to swipe a certain way, swipe for other people who were equally confused 4. press the floor number(s) versus 1. press the up button 2. press the floor number I would imagine that guests would have a room (key) card with RFID, and that by default the lobby elevators would read the card and by default offer to go to the floor that the room is on, and from the room floor elevators it would by default offer to go to the lobby. The "keypad" or touchscreen would only need to be used if you wanted to go to another floor: pool, restaurant, conference room, etc... The elevators need to clearly indicate where they are going.

darklajid 14y ago
At work:Six elevators, two (?) panels per floor. If you come near one of these panels it lights up and offers a touchscreen with all possible floors. By default the lobby and the parking deck. If you swipe your access card in front of that panel, the selection is expanded to include the floors you're cleared for. Select a floor and you'll be told which elevator door is going to open. So: For leaving the building: One press. For your way up to work. Swipe, press. Up and down buttons are idiotic if you specify the floor anywhere..
dudeanon842 14y ago
Yeah, smells like over-engineering to me. At most they need to put the "which floor" button on the outside where you wait. They don't need RFID cards that track history and use heuristics to predict where you are likely to go.

darklajid 14y ago

At work:Six elevators, two (?) panels per floor. If you come near one of these panels it lights up and offers a touchscreen with all possible floors. By default the lobby and the parking deck. If you swipe your access card in front of that panel, the selection is expanded to include the floors you're cleared for. Select a floor and you'll be told which elevator door is going to open. So: For leaving the building: One press. For your way up to work. Swipe, press. Up and down buttons are idiotic if you specify the floor anywhere..

dudeanon842 14y ago

Yeah, smells like over-engineering to me. At most they need to put the "which floor" button on the outside where you wait. They don't need RFID cards that track history and use heuristics to predict where you are likely to go.