I/NET Seven elevator control configuration and setup. (Traditional versus Extended elevator control)

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Issue

I/NET Seven elevator control configuration and setup. (Traditional versus Extended elevator control)

Product Line

TAC INET

Environment

• I/NET Seven
• Extended elevator control: DPU Firmware 3.20 or above. (DPU7920 with 48K MIP or SCU1284)

Cause

There are two types of elevator control that you can implement within TAC I/NET:

Traditional Elevator Control – Tradition elevator control allows each elevator to support up to 62 floors. This type of control has been used for as long as elevators have been supported within TAC I/NET.

Extended Elevator Control – Extended elevator control does away with floor mapping and allows you to assign floors directly to tenants. Using this type of elevator control, each elevator can support up to 79 floors.

Resolution

Elevators

The Elevator control function will work with the access control parameters and personnel schedules to control access to banks of elevators. Activating () the elevator option in the Door Extension editor will cause the DPU to process each reader transaction as though it were an entry into an elevator cab.

Note: An elevator DPU will support only one door reader. Changing a Door from elevator to non-elevator, or vice versa will cause the DPU to purge its database.

In addition to supplying the above parameters at the door (DPU) level, it will also be necessary to supply the DPI/MCI with the information required to associate an elevator cab with the discrete output points that enable the floor relays, and the discrete input points that monitor the button selection.

There will be an elevator extension on each door point in the DPI/MCI that is assigned as an elevator. After adding the extension to the point, you must define the Elevator parameters such as floor selection time, floor designation description, button enable point, and button selection point.

Elevator Control Schemes

There are two types of elevator control that you can implement within I/NET Seven:

Traditional Elevator Control – Tradition elevator control allows each elevator to support up to 62 floors. This type of control has been used for as long as elevators have been supported within I/NET.

Extended Elevator Control – Extended elevator control does away with floor mapping and allows you to assign floors directly to tenants. Using this type of elevator control, each elevator can support up to 79 floors.

You can use either type of control, or a combination of both, to implement elevators within your system. By allowing you to mix both types of control, I/NET gives you the ability to begin using extended elevator control without reconfiguring your traditional elevator control system.

The following sections describe each elevator control type.

Traditional Elevator Control

Traditional elevator control allows each elevator to support up to 62 floors. To implement this type of control, you assign the elevator door point to one or more tenants. You then create floor maps that associate floors with personnel schedules (see “Defining Floor Maps”, below). After performing these tasks, any individual (or group) assigned to the elevator can gain access to the floors that are associated with their personnel schedule

Assigning the Elevator to Tenants

Traditional elevator control requires you to assign the elevator to one or more tenants. Until you perform this task, the Floors button in the Elevator editor will not be available (i.e., it remains grey).

Defining Floor Maps

Floor maps are only necessary when configuring your I/NET system for traditional elevator control. Floor maps determine which floors are enabled during each schedule that a tenant defines for the elevator.

For example:

Tenant 1 has a personnel schedule named “24 Hour” defined for the elevator. This schedule provides 24-hour access, seven days a week. The elevator’s floor map associates the floor enable points for floors 1 and 2 with Tenant 1’s “24 Hour” schedule. This allows Tenant 1 individuals using the “24 Hour” schedule to select floor 1 or floor 2 at any time.

Use the Floors button in the Elevator editor to create floor maps as follows:

1. Choose a tenant.
2. Select a schedule from up to 31 personnel schedules defined for the elevator.
3. Select an entry from up to seven access intervals defined for the schedule.
4. Assign floor enable points to the schedule’s access interval. Floor enable points cause the elevator buttons for those floors to be enabled for selection by the key/card holder.

Up to 62 floor enable points can be assigned to each access interval. Any floor enable points beyond 62 are unavailable when using traditional elevator control. These higher floor enable points are only available for use with extended elevator control, as described below.

Note: Extended elevator control is only available with the 7920 48k DPU.

Repeat these steps as necessary to create floor maps for each of up to 31 personnel schedules assigned to the elevator by a tenant.

Extended Elevator Control

I/NET Seven now offers an alternative to the traditional elevator control just described. Enhancements to the I/NET system support up to 79 floors per elevator. Instead of assigning the elevator door point to the tenant, you can implement extended elevator control by assigning floors to the tenant. The DI/DO pairs that you add to an elevator from the Elevator editor are listed in the Tenant editor, much like normal door points. Select the floors that you wish to assign to the tenant.

Implementing Elevator Control

Note: Extended elevator control is only available with the 7920 48k DPU.

Adding an elevator extension to the door point provides access to elevator-related features and editors within I/NET and allows floors to be assigned. Each floor assigned to an elevator must have an associated DO and DI point. The DO point enables the elevator button for the specific floor. The DI point provides feedback indicating whether the floor button has been selected.

Preliminary Requirements

Before defining an elevator, you must do the following:

1. Define a door point as an elevator in the Door Extensions editor.
2. Use the Resident I/O Points editor to define a floor enable point (DO) and a floor selection point (DI) for each floor that will be assigned to an elevator.
3. Use the Personnel Schedules editor to define up to 31 schedules for the selected elevator door point.

Adding an Elevator Extension

Use the following procedure to add an elevator extension:

1. Select Edit Controller Elevators from the main menu. The system displays the Resident I/O Points Editor. This screen lists the available door (elevator) points.
2. Choose a point that does not have a Y in the EL column and select the Add button. The system displays the Elevators window.
3. Enter a Floor selection time (sec) (1 to 255). This is the amount of time in seconds that the key/card user has to make a selection from the floor buttons in the elevator cab. The default is 5.
4. Select Add. The system displays the Elevators - Floor Parameters window. This window allows you to define the floor index attached to this elevator extension.
   1. Enter the Floor index number (1 to 62). This is the line number in the list.
   2. Enter the Floor designation (up to two characters). This identifies the floor. For example, the first level of a basement could be represented as B1.
   3. For each elevator floor extension assigned to a point in the DPI/MCI, there must be an associated DO and DI point attached to the elevator extension. This association of DO and DI points produces closed-loop feedback allowing the controller to identify an elevator floor selection with each successful key/card reader access.
      In the Button enable field to choose a point from the drop-down list of all possible discrete output points in the controller 
   4. In the Button selection field, choose a point from the list of all possible discrete input points in the controller.
   5. Select OK. The system returns to the Elevators window.
5. How you proceed from this point will depend upon the type of elevator control you are implementing. Use the appropriate steps below: Traditional Elevator Control:
   1. From the Elevators window, select Floors. The system displays the Tenant Selection window.
   2. Choose a tenant from the list and select the Select button. The system displays the Elevators - Floor Schedules window.
   3. Choose a schedule from the list and select the Select button. The system displays the Elevators - Access Intervals window.
   4. Choose an access interval from the list and select the Select button. The system displays the Elevators - Floor Map editor.
   5. Choose the DO points which enable the floor selection buttons for the appropriate floors. Points marked with "[X]" will enable their respective floor selection button in the elevator cab.
   6. When you have finished choosing the appropriate DO points, select OK. The system returns to the Elevators - Access Intervals window.
   7. You may continue assigning floors to access intervals, or you may back out of the elevator functions by selecting Close at each window.

Extended Elevator Control (See also article Extended Elevator control (Step by step instructions) )

1. From the Tenant Editor, assign floors (i.e., door enable points) to the tenant.
2. Assign floors to individuals and/or groups as necessary.