Floorsie Branding and Industrial Design Mockup

Developed prototype solution for tackling COVID19 transmission in high foot traffic areas throughout the province including elevators in commercial buildings, residential condominiums and hospitals.

Floorsie is a speech operated robotic arm for equipping traditional elevators for touchless operation.

A visitor, employee or resident would simply walk in an elevator to verbally say a command, like a floor number and the arm would press the appropriate button - simple.

Floorsie is unobtrusive and doesn't physically cover or replace any aspect of the button panel itself - it simply tucks away allowing the elevator to be operating both in 'touch' or 'touchless' mode as needed. There would be no need to reconfigure any panels or rewire any aspects of the elevator electronics, which makes it easy to install or remove across various elevator manufacturers. Floorsie is a two module solution:

Floorsie Control Arm

Voice Operated: Each individual elevator requires an independent control arm to be installed on top of the elevator button panel. This module is operated by speech where voice recognition would turn a vocal command into a button press. The above graphic is a working prototype of a control arm built from 3D printer components.

Floorsie Floor Switch

Wave Operated:  Each floor requires a proximity switch to be installed on top of the floor switch. This module is operated by waving above or below the switch to indicate if going up or down via proximity sensor that presses the appropriate button.

The spirit of Floorsie is a solution that could be quickly deployed to a broad base to combat the COVID pandemic with minimal intervention or obstruction - a true snap-on solution.