Help Center -> Elevator control systems management -> Floor Settings

## Floor Settings

The Elevator control system is primarily for the management of personnel forbidden and admission. For security, a company will set personnel admission time zones, forbidden time zones and combinations of time zones.

### Permission management

Click [Elevator control] - [Floor configuration], and by default it will elevator [Floor management] interface, showing the list of all control panels. When unfolded, it can show all floors under the control of the control panel. if currently the system has elevator control panels or the query result is not null, by default it will unfold the floors of the first elevator control panel. Click corresponding button for relevant parameter setting.

Floor management operations include: control panel management and floor management.

1．Control panel operation

For communication between the system and the device, data uploading, configuration downloading, device and system parameters shall be set. The user can see elevator control panels within his levels in the current system, and can edit the devices here. If the user needs to add or delete devices, operate in device management.

Control panel management includes: Modify IP address, disable, Enable, Modify communication password, Synchronize time, Upload event record, Upgrade firmware, and Get event entries.

(1)Device profile:

Select device, click [Edit] under “Related operation”. For Related details, see Device Maintenance.

(2) Modify IP address：

Select device, and click [Modify IP address] to show the modification interface. Enter new IP address, gateway, and subnet mask. Click [OK] to save settings and quit. This function is same as [Modify IP address function] in Elevator Control Device. The difference is when searching control panels, the devices have not been added into the system, while the current [Modify device IP address] is regarding added devices.

(3)Disable/Enable :

Select device, click [Disable/ Enable] to stop/ start using the device. When the device’s communication with the system is interrupted or the device fails, the device may automatically appear in disabled status. At this time, after adjusting Internet or device, click [Enable device] to reconnect the device and restore device communication.

Note: If the current device is in enabled status and the connection is not successful, and the user conducts enable operation, the system will immediately reconnect the device.

(4) Modify communication password:

Enter the same new password for twice, and click [OK] to modify the communication password.

(5) Synchronize time:

Synchronize device time with current server time.

(6) Get event entries:

Get event records in the device into the system.

Two options is provided for this operation, Get New Entries and Get All Entries.

Get New Entries: The system only get the new event entries after the last time event entries getting, and record them into the database, the repeated entries will not rewrite again.

Get All Entries: The system will get all of the event entries again, the repeated entries will not rewrite again.

When the network status is normal and the communication status between the system and the device is normal, the system will acquire event records in the device in real-time and save them into system database. However, when the network is interrupted or communication is interrupted for some reasons, and the event records in the device have not been uploaded into the system in real-time, this operation can be used to manually acquire event records in the device. In addition, the system, by default, will automatically acquire event records in the device at 00:00 each day.

Note: The elevator controller can restore up to 100 thansands of event entries, after the entries exceed this number, the device will automatically delete the oldest restored entries (the default delete number is 10 thansands).

(7) Upgrade firmware

To upgrade firmware in the device, tick the device for which you want to upgrade firmware, click [Upgrade firmware], enter edit interface, click [Browse] to select the firmware upgrade file (named emfw.cfg) provided by us, and click [OK] to start upgrading.

Note: The user shall not upgrade firmware without authorization. Contact the distributor before upgrading firmware, or upgrade it when instructed by the distributor. Unauthorized upgrading may bring problems that affect your normal use.

(8) Change the fingerprint identification threshold

The user can change the fingerprint identification threshold in the device, the scale is 35-70, it is 55 by default. In device adding, the system will get the threshold from device. If the operation succeeds, user can view the threshold in all of the devices. The batch operation is permitted; user can change multi devices meanwhile.

(9) Get information of personnel

Renew the current number of personnel and fingerprints in the device. And the final value will be displayed on the device list.

2. Floor management

The device list will show all elevator control devices. Click the “+” button before the device name to show the floor list under a device. When adding device, it will automatically add floors (corresponding device name and floor numbers can not be edited) according to the number of floors. Before using the device (including floors), the user must edit floor information one by one (or apply current settings to other floors). After editing, they will be sent to the device, which can be used after successful setting.

(1)Floor parameter modification:

Select the floor to be modified, and click [Edit] under “Related operation” to show the Edit interface;

The fields are as follows:

Device name: It is not editable (need to be edited in 6.2.1 elevator control device);

Floor number: The system automatically name the numbers of floors according to how many floors of the device . The number will be consistent with the floor number on the device.

Floor name: The default floor name is “device name_floor number”. The field allows the user to modify as required. Up to 30 characters can be entered;

Floor valid time zone, floor normal open time zone: By default either is null. Initialized and added elevator control time zones will be shown for the user to select. Upon floor editing, floor valid time zone is need to input. Only after setting floor valid time zone, the floor can be opened and closely normally. We recommend to set floor normal open time period within the floor valid time zone, only in this situation, the floor normal open time zone is valid;

Lock open duration: Used to control the delay for unlocking after card punching. The unit is second, and the default is 5 seconds. The user can enter a number between 0-254;

Punch interval: The unit is second (range: 0-10 seconds), and the default is 2 seconds;

Floor sensor type: NO (floor sensor not detected), Normal Open, Normal Close. The default is NO. When editing floors, the user can select the floor sensor type to be Normal Open or Normal Close. If Normal Open or Normal Close is selected, it is required to select floor status delay and whether close and reverse-lock is required. By default, once floor sensor type is set as Normal Open or Normal Close, the default floor status delay will be 15s, and by default it will enable close and reverse-lock.

Apply the setting to all floors of the current control panel: Click to apply to all floors of the current control panel;

Apply the setting to all floors of all control panels: Click to apply to all floors of all control panels within the current user’s level;

After parameter editing, click [OK] to save and quit.