Reducing elevator energy use: A comparison of posted feedback and reduced elevator convenience

Reducing elevator energy use: A comparison of posted feedback and reduced elevator convenience.

The effects of two different procedures for reducing elevator energy use were assessed using a multiple-baseline design. In the first procedure, feedback about the amount of energy consumed by the elevators each week was posted on each elevator door. Later, signs advocating the use of stairs to save energy and improve health were posted next to the feedback signs. In the second procedure, the t...

Accessible Elevator

This paper describes an proof-of-concept with the goal of providing new interactions for elevators. By connecting the control unit of the elevator to the ISO/IEC 24752 Universal Remote Console (URC) middleware – the Universal Remote Console (UCH) – we show some examples of alternative and accessible User Interfaces. By this, we achieve not only accessible UIs, e.g., spoken language interfaces, ...

The Sourcing Problem - Energy Optimization of a Multisource Elevator

Autonomous Interpretation of Elevator

The objective of the work presented in this paper is develop a method to interpret interior elevator panels for robot navigation. We outline a three-level hierarchical approach applies principles from both supervised and unsupervised machine learning techniques. In particular, we will show the development of an algorithm that accepts an elevator panel image paired with a desired floor location ...

PR2 Rides the Elevator

The goal of this project was to design the vision system onboard a PR2 robot tasked with navigating between floors in the ICICS X-Wing at UBC. The vision task includes the detection and localization of elevator buttons that must be pressed in order to ride the elevator to a desired floor. The system is implemented in ROS, the Robotic Operating System from Willow Garage, and executed on the PR2....