Parking Configurations - MCi iControl User Manual

For each Parking configuration, users may choose to allow iControl to determine the optimal
parking configuration at any given time or to manually define a parking floor (lobby or non-
lobby for each configuration):
• User setting: On a per-configuration basis, the user defines priority (lobby or non-lobby)
and car door behavior at the selected parking floor.
• Dynamic: iControl predicts building hall call demand and parks the car accordingly, deter-
mining optimal parking configuration on an ongoing basis
• Combination: The user programs essential floors only, leaving other floor entries blank.
When acting as the Backup Dispatcher, once user-defined parking floors are served, iCon-
trol will park the remaining idle cars automatically.

Parking Configurations

1. Select a Parking configuration to edit/create (1 — 8). Screen information will automati-
cally update when a configuration is selected.
2. Select a Parking method:
• Per floor parking: Parking is assigned on a per floor basis.
• Sector parking: The building is divided into a number of user-defined sectors (contigu-
ous group of floors) and parking assignments are based on those sectors rather than
upon individual floors. The Parking floors pane will change to indicate floors or sectors
depending on the method selected. The user may also choose to enable Sector dis-
patching, causing the dispatcher to consider parking assignments and through-sector
travel when making call assignments.
Set Parking Delay Timers
These delay timers are used by both user-defined
and dynamic parking behaviors.
• Lobby parking delay: When a car becomes
idle (no call demand), this parameter deter-
mines the minimum time before it may be
moved to a lobby parking floor.
• Lobby Shuffle delay: When a lobby parking
floor becomes available, this parameter
determines the delay before requesting that a
car parked at a non-lobby parking floor be shuffled to a lobby parking floor.
• Non-lobby parking delay: When a car becomes idle, this parameter determines the mini-
mum time before it may be moved to a non-lobby parking floor. If no lobby or non-lobby
parking floors are available, the car will remain idle at the last floor served.
• Non-lobby shuffle delay: When a car is parked at a non-lobby parking floor, this parameter
determines the minimum time it must remain at that floor before it may be shuffled to a
lobby parking floor.
Parking delay timers ensure that the car is not constantly parked and re-parked in response to
momentary system conditions.
System Configuration tab
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