US 12,269,711 B2
In-building traffic prediction system and elevator boarding place layout generation method and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium for storing program for in-building traffic prediction system
Masayasu Fujiwara, Tokyo (JP); Takamichi Hoshino, Tokyo (JP); Satoru Toriyabe, Tokyo (JP); Takahiro Hatori, Tokyo (JP); and Wataru Toriumi, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 16/760,176
Filed by Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Oct. 11, 2018, PCT No. PCT/JP2018/038003
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Apr. 29, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/087730, PCT Pub. Date May 9, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 2017-209291 (JP), filed on Oct. 30, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2020/0262680 A1, Aug. 20, 2020
Int. Cl. B66B 3/00 (2006.01); B66B 1/24 (2006.01); B66B 5/00 (2006.01)
CPC B66B 3/006 (2013.01) [B66B 1/24 (2013.01); B66B 5/0025 (2013.01); B66B 5/0031 (2013.01)] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An in-building traffic prediction system comprising:
an elevator boarding place layout generation unit that: by using, as input, elevator specification information including sizes of a plurality of elevators, a quantity of the plurality of elevators, and service floors of the plurality of elevators, determines a method for installing the plurality of elevators based on either the quantity of the plurality of elevators or the sizes of the plurality of elevators from arrangements including at least one or more of a planar arrangement where the plurality of elevators are aligned in a row on one side configuring a boarding place of the elevator, or an opposed arrangement where the elevators are divided and located on two opposite sides configuring the elevator boarding place; determines a shape of the elevator boarding place by determining the two opposite sides configuring the elevator boarding place on the basis of the installation method and the sizes and quantity of the plurality of elevators; and further generates an elevator boarding place layout by determining each floor where the elevator boarding place is to be installed according to the service floors; and
a simulation unit that predicts operations of the plurality of elevators and movements of pedestrians in an entire building or at an arbitrary point on the basis of at least the elevator boarding place layout.