Touchless controls for passenger elevator
Sumit Kumar Vaish, Ankita Dwivedi, Deepam Dubey · 2020 International Conference on Power, Instrumentation, Control and Computing (PICC) · 2020
Control panels play important role in providing interaction with machines. Centuries ago, it started with mechanical switches and has now reached to capacitive touchscreens after a long journey. All these require a contact or touch and in case of capacitive touchscreen it requires some specific type of material through which the contact is made at any point on the touchscreen surface. During the pandemic, the rise of new normal created the need of touchless. Example of passenger elevator can explain the need. Passenger elevators have switches installed outside the elevator cabin, are known as Landing operating panel and inside the elevator cabin are known as COP Cabin operating panel which are touched by lot of people and people are using them fearfully during pandemic. We have developed control panels with which elevators can be operated without the need of touching any surface by fingers and it does not require any special kind of material, stylus or device. Our design is based on Infrared light field which is invisible, low cost and light weight. The design is also easy to install.