KONE Elevators
Here’s another practical use for procgen: as a more accessible interface to complex data.
KONE, a Finnish elevator company, monitors their elevator data across the globe. To advertise this service, they’ve also created an interface that translates these messages into human-readable conversations, which you can watch and listen to live on their website.
The life of an elevator turns out to involve a lot of waiting around, with occasional bursts of excitement.
Translating a complex data stream into something more comprehensible to humans is useful, particularly if it can also highlight important information and thus avoid the over-exposure that is a common cause of human error.