Don’t Redesign Your Small Elevators For Homes

Posted by otsedtalex on April 9th, 2019

Elevator controls
Do you have a website redesign planned? If so, there might be a lesson in my first experience with a Schindler ID System elevator control installation.
When passenger elevators first came into use, they were complicated and a bit dangerous. They were often operated by employees of the building owner lest passengers get caught in the door or stuck between floors. Eventually, automation took over, and today we all know how To get from one floor to another without devoting any thought to the process. I've been in countless elevators in many countries, and despite great differences in cultures and language, elevators function in a transparent and identical way. That is, until I encountered a hotel featured the Schindler system that offers a very different elevator experience.
The elevators are arranged in a circle around a little lobby – very attractive and ultra-modern. To get inside the elevator lobby from a guest floor, though, I have to get through a heavy glass Door. It's locked. Maybe to prevent a cat burglar who rappelled to the 28th floor, broke in through a window, and now planned to make a quick exit via the elevator? I wave my RFID room key at various objects to no effect. I notice on the wall opposite the door handle there's a button that says "unlock door." I push it, and quickly open the door. (I guess the cat burglar could have pushed the button too. Hmmm. Maybe its purpose is to Keep really short people away from the Small Elevators For Homes ?)
The elevator lobby has none of the traditional "up" or "down" buttons. Rather, there's a little kiosk with a keypad and a display. To use the keypad, though, you have to swipe your room key next to a sensor. But There's the sensor? There's no label, nothing to indicate which spot you have to get close to – I figured it out by watching a bellhop do it. There's no beep or other feedback when you identify yourself to the elevator brain – you know it worked Only if you can use the keypad.
Once the elevator brain decides you have authorization to request an elevator, you key in the number of your destination floor. The display gives you a letter code for your assigned elevator. When you enter the car, you find no floor buttons at all. Your Don't even think about, say, stopping at the reception floor once you've boarded – you made your decision at the kiosk, and any itinerary changes will have to wait Until arrive at your programmed destination.
Oddly, even exiting the elevator lobby requires a key card. Since activating the kiosk requires one too, if you somehow got into the lobby without a card (say, if you went in someone was disabled), you’d apparently be trapped.