Sector Dispatching - MCi iControl User Manual

Sector parking conditions:
• Overlapping start and/or end floors are allowed.
• Cars without car or hall call demands will be immediately parked. If the idle car is in a sec-
tor that already has a parked car, it will move to the nearest unoccupied sector.
• Only one car may be parked in a sector at any one time.
• If a car-call demand stops a car in an unoccupied sector, and it is assigned to park, it will
park at the floor of the demand (rather than moving to the preferred floor within the sec-
tor).
• If the dispatcher assigns a car to park in an unoccupied sector, but then detects a car-call
registered to that sector for another car, the first car will not be moved (or will be stopped
if already moving).
• If sector parking is selected for a parking configuration but the user does not define sec-
tors, or defines fewer sectors than might be accommodated by the number of cars in the
group or available landings, the dispatcher will make sector parking assignments dynami-
cally using artificial intelligence. Under these conditions:
• The number of landings assigned to a sector will vary according to traffic demands. For
example, during up peak operation, the upper sector will be extended so that any down
demand may be more effectively met by the car assigned to park in the sector, while up
demand is met by other cars in the group.
• The dispatcher will adjust behavior depending upon traffic data collected from previ-
ous experience during the same timer periods. For example, if hall call demand at a
particular floor has been historically heavy during certain times, a car or cars will be
moved to or near those floors in anticipation of the demand.
• If previous experience during a particular time so indicates, the dispatcher will antici-
pate the destination of hall call demand from a particular floor or floors and will reas-
sign parking for idle cars at anticipated destination floors accordingly.

Sector Dispatching

When the parking method is set to Sector, and Sector dispatching is enabled, the dispatcher will
consider user-defined and/or dynamically assigned parking sectors when making dispatching
decisions (refer to sector parking conditions above).
Enable sector dispatching is only suitable for Group dispatching and is not applied on Simplex
operation. For a Simplex car, when Sector dispatching is enabled and used in conjunction with
Sector parking, this option will cause the simplex car to park in the nearest available sector
rather than in the highest priority sector.
System Configuration tab
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