Saturday, September 17, 2011

Good ideas #1

I am going to start posting some of my ideas either for a new product or how to improve one.
This one is how to improve elevators. This might exist somewhere but I haven't seen it yet.
People love and hate elevators. There great for getting to floors without expending much energy. We also hate waiting for them and stopping at floors with no one at them, because someone presses the call button then decided to take the stairs.
Here are my two ideas to help with these problems.
There should b a cancel button. So if I go to take the elevator and decided not to for what ever reason I can hit this button and cancel the call request. So that way it doesn't stop at the floor for no reason. This would also be useful for when you it the wrong button like up instead of down or even in the elevator when you hit 1 instead of ground.

The next piece is have the elevator learn floor patterns. For example if at 3 -3:15 pm the 3rd floor calls the elevator the most have the elevator reset to that floor when idle instead of staying at whatever the last floor was. Yes this might take a little more energy but ultimately it would be worth it. 

I think this would improve everyone's experience on elevators 10 fold. Well at least it would for me. 

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