Currently, half of the engineers in Kone’s R&D unit are hardware engineers and half are software engineers. In one development project, an elevator ordered by the power of thought was born.
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Known for elevators and escalators, Kone combined a headband worn around the head with the company’s DX-class elevator in its development project. The end result was an elevator that could be ordered with the power of thought.
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The purpose of the project is to show how elevators can be controlled in different ways. The importance of interfaces is increasing as robots become more common in, for example, hotels, hospitals and industrial plants. The robots can themselves order the elevator through the interface and move to the right floor. In this way, the logistics inside the buildings become more efficient.
Innovations related to data and interfaces are increasingly important for a traditional company.
“In the R&D unit, half of the engineers are hardware engineers and half are software engineers,” says Chief Technology Officer Maciej Kranz.
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