You would probably have to connect the sensors to a central server which would monitor the status of each sensor. Dependant on how the sensors worked they would either send a signal when there state changed, at fixed time intervals, or the server would have to poll input.
Once a change has been sent/recieved by the server it would update a database of all sensor states.
When your app then makes requests to this server it would respond with a formatted XML response on the availability of each floor.
I'm afraid I can't give exact details on how to connect the sensor array, most likely for this type of project it would be a custom built box, if you search around you should find some suppliers, or if you are just learning you can have a look at http://www.arduino.cc/ - these are programmable microcontrollers so you could build a prototype with them.