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Schindler Miconic 10 plaque in Jakarta, Indonesia.
Schindler Miconic 10 was an elevator dispatching system product of Schindler. It was invented in 1992 by Schindler's engineer, Dr. Paul Friedli[1] as the world's first practical destination control system to enchance traffic efficiency.
In 2000, Schindler introduced their second generation destination control system called Schindler ID, which was based on the Miconic 10 but incorporates an RFID card reader to check passenger's access rights. The success of Miconic 10 led to the creation of Schindler's third generation of destination dispatch; The PORT Technology in 2009.
Both Miconic 10 and Schindler ID were discontinued in 2012 and succeeded by Schindler PORT. However, it is still made for Hungary[2], Romania[3], Slovenia[4], Brazil[5] and Turkey[6]. Also, many Schindler PORT installations can still use Miconic 10-design keypad (Z-Line fixtures) instead of its normally available touchpads.
Description
Schindler Miconic 10 uses a revolutionary traffic management system that brings people to their destinations faster than a conventional elevator control. The system works by grouping passengers grouping people traveling to the same floor and allocate them to individual elevator cars. The individual elevators are then routed in the group so that they serve only certain floors, thus reduces the number of intermediate stops and thereby improves the elevator system efficiency.
Application
Miconic 10 is usually used in high rise office buildings, but it could also be used in hotels and even commercial buildings. The minimum amount of elevator cars used with this system is two.
The system normally works on Schindler 700, 7000 and Miconic TX elevators. However, it has been known to worked on Schindler 5400, Schindler NeoLift (only in Brazil), Schindler 300 P, Schindler 500, Miconic V and few other traction models as well.
Usage
Instead of "calling a car by push buttons", the destination floor is entered via a telephone-style keypad. Passengers enter their desired destination floor using the keypad and the display will show them the elevator car that they must take to get to their destinations. When entering, they will see that their destinations are shown on the indicators found in the car door jambs. Once they are inside the elevator, the doors will close and the elevator will go straight to their desired floors. They don't need to select floors inside as there are no visible floor buttons[7] on the car station other than door open, door close and alarm buttons. Upon arriving at a floor, the floor number on the destination indicators will flashes and disappears once the door opens.
Benefits
- Advance knowledge of every passenger’s destination before they even reach the elevator.
- Reduced passenger journey times.
- Elimination of crowding during heavy traffic.
- Assurance of a dedicated service for people with special needs.
- Greater design flexibility for building core configuration.
Notable installations
Main article: List of notable Schindler Miconic 10 elevator installations
Trivia
- The system's destination keypad terminal (known as Z-Line) received the iF Design Award in 1997[8].
Video
Schindler Miconic 10 destination dispatch elevators - CentralPlaza Grand Rama IX Bangkok Thailand
Schindler Miconic 10 elevators, found in CentralPlaza Grand Rama 9, Bangkok, Thailand (Video: Snorkitty)
See also
Notes and references
- ↑ Jardine Schindler Group Magazine - Vertical World (December 2014)
- ↑ Miconic 10 - Schindler Hungária (Hungarian)
- ↑ Miconic 10 - Schindler Romania (Romanian)
- ↑ Miconic 10® - Schindler Slovenija (Slovenian)
- ↑ Miconic 10 - Atlas Schindler (Portuguese)
- ↑ Miconic 10-Bina içi trafik işletim sistemi - Schindler Türkeli Asansör (Turkish)
- ↑ Instead, floor buttons are hidden behind a cabinet and only used for firefighting purpose.
- ↑ Miconic 10 Stockwerksterminal - iF WORLD DESIGN GUIDE
External links
- Schindler Miconic 10 brochure (2007 edition) (Archived)
- Schindler Miconic 10 brochure (1999 edition, United States) (Archived)
- Schindler 7000 Traffic Management System Operating Instructions - includes access management related instructions for Schindler ID (Archived)
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| Main article | Destination dispatch |
| Systems by manufacturers | AGILE (TK Elevator, formerly DSC) • Compass / CompassPlus / Compass 360 (Otis) • Destination / Polaris (Kone) • Destination Oriented Allocation System (DOAS) (Mitsubishi Electric) • Destination Selection Control (DSC) (thyssenkrupp) • Destination Selecting System (Hyundai) • EZShuttle (Fujitec) • FIBEE (Hitachi) • FLOORNAVI (Toshiba) • Miconic 10 (Schindler) • The PORT Technology (Schindler) • SchindlerID (Schindler) |