With The PORT Technology by Schindler, the Personal Transit Management system, the travelers’ only requirement is to simply communicate their identity and required destination at a PORT Terminal. The PORT Technology takes care of the rest by planning and executing a seamless journey using an optimal route designed to take the shortest possible time to complete.
Especially suited to large elevator groups or straight line configurations in heavy traffic commercial buildings, PORT can increase handling capacity and reduce travel times.
PORT reduces crowding both in the lobby and inside the car, by allocating passengers to individual floors. PORT offers fully integrated building access, and myPORT – elevator control and security building access from your smartphone.
The PORT Technology ECO monitors the traffic conditions continuously and keeps average waiting times below or at the specified level, while saving the maximum of energy possible.
The PORT Technology offers different ways to travel through buildings without ever touching an elevator or even a door.
was designed to bring a new dimension to the use of barriers in the building entry process. With PORT, not only can each entrant be verified as valid but an elevator for their preferred destination floor can be ordered and its identity communicated, right at the barrier. And, because this is a PORT control, we can guarantee that the elevator will provide the best possible journey in the prevailing traffic conditions.
Each PORT is equipped with a reader which can communicate with any compatible Radio Frequency device ranging from a simple card to a smart phone. This can be used to provide special features during normal elevator operation or, when the PORT is incorporated into a barrier, to provide an access control system which is fully integrated with the elevators.
When the PORT is used in conjunction with a barrier, this feature prevents a user passing their card back across the barrier to facilitate entry of another person by invalidating the second transaction at this barrier or any others nearby.
Parking can be configured such that the system uses real-time statistical data to determine the most likely demand floors during the current time period and parks the elevators accordingly. Alternatively the customer can pre-define parking floors.
This optional feature is to discourage passengers from entering into a cabin, for example with a colleague, without using their badge. If a passenger boards an elevator without using their badge, a sanction is applied when this badge is used again. This may range from a warning message on the PORT screen to a requirement to reset the badge at the security desk in the lobby.
All Schindler elevators are fully enabled for PORT Technology, with all the advantages of reduced travel time in elevators, higher passenger traffic capacity, and the potential for full building security and personalized access.
PORT Access is an access control solution for commercial and residential buildings, providing truly integrated mobility. Tenants and visitors travel securely and conveniently from entrance to destination through a network of PORT Access terminals.
With myPORT, seamless travel throughout the building is quick, secure, and convenient – simply use your mobile phone to unlock doors and call elevators.