Emerging Technology
With IoT, Data is Available
Monarch product manager addresses the best systems to be integrated for futuristic, safer elevator travel. The Internet of Things (IoT) revolution is coming to all industries, and readers of ELEVATOR...
Technology Promotes Relevance, High Value
Data and innovation are key drivers of digital transformation in India’s real estate industry. The real estate industry, which is perceived to be one of the lowest digitized industries in...
Rising to the Challenge
Your author discusses how advanced elevator systems can improve elevator performance. For a considerably long period in the past, say up to the year 1980, we were decades behind...
Digitalization and the User-Consumer
In this Readers’ Platform, your author outlines the keys to keeping customers happy in a rapidly changing world. Digitalization and connected elevators have been top of mind for many elevator...
Better Buildings, Better Lives
Your author explains the significance of technology for real estate and VT. Since the 1990s, new, innovative construction technologies adopted by the real estate industry have made the construction of...
Advanced Technology in Elevator Engineering
In this Industry Dialogue, Shashi Kant Mishra (SKM), an engineer and lift consultant, shares perspectives with your author (SSP). SSP: Tell me about yourself. Shashi Kant Mishra SKM: I am...
Upgraded MRL
Tokyo-based Mitsubishi Electric has launched the NEXIEZ-MRL Version 2 machine-room-less (MRL) elevator, which comes with a new door operating system and offers optional health, safety and convenience features, the company...
New and Emerging Technology Product Spotlight & Resources
All About Innovation When the pandemic tightened its deadly grip on the world, the vertical-transportation (VT) industry sprang into action. Elevators and escalators are key to continued growth of cities...
VFD Braking Resistor Protection
In this Product Spotlight, your author introduces a new safety feature allowing elevator drives to monitor for braking failures. KEB has introduced a new safety feature that allows the F5...
Remote Monitoring: Risks and Rewards
In this Readers’ Platform, your author addresses industrial safety in light of digital transformation. More and more safety components are supplied with programmable logic controllers (PLCs) that communicate with sensors...