Communication Systems

Messaging Systems for Escalators and Moving Walks

Mass-transit stations, airports and other facilities benefit from audible safety products. Sound View Electronics has been making automated messaging systems and improving escalator safety for more than 15 years. The...

Testing Elevator Phone Lines: An Overview

How to ensure a building’s emergency-communications system is legal and code compliant Property managers and building owners are liable for the elevators in their buildings, and they must understand the...

Usage of Voice Recognition inside an Elevator

This paper was presented at  Paris 2014, the International Congress on Vertical Transportation Technologies, and first published in IAEE book Elevator Technology 20, edited by A. Lustig. It is a...

Advantages of Implementing M2M and Cloud Services in Retrofitted Elevators

This paper was presented at  Paris 2014, the International Congress on Vertical Transportation Technologies, and first published in IAEE book Elevator Technology 20, edited by A. Lustig. It is a...

Sounding the Alarm on Inactive Phone Lines

by Mark Abbott and John Pierce People always ask us, “You put phones in elevators?” We typically answer “Yes,” fully anticipating the next question to be, “Really, doesn’t everyone have...

Optical Fiber in Elevator Traveling Cable

This article outlines the types and uses of fiber optics for elevators and explains financial and technical benefits, as well as the perceived and actual installation challenges. The need for...

Ultrasonic Alarm System for Monitoring Distance between Elevator Counterweight and Buffers in Real Time

by by Ning Li, Yihui Ruan, JieFeng Li and Bin Elevator maintenance personnel often have to climb to the top of an elevator to repair or maintain it. In order...

Unraveling Emergency-Telephone Complexities

The EN 81-28 standard was developed and introduced in 2003 to minimize the hazards and risks associated with passenger entrapment in elevators. According to Adrian Shiner, convener of CEN TC10...

Code Requirements for ASME A17.1b-2010/CSA B44.10

Elevators contain numerous components that function in every possible way and location, and are monitored by various answering services. However, ESRM Communications, LLC realized two years ago that parts of...

The winning team from Linden Lodge School; image courtesy of Otis

South London Students Awarded STEM Grant in Otis Program

STATION IN SOUTH INDIA WITH VT INAUGURATED

Railway Station in South India with VT Inaugurated

STANNAH TO MANAGE RAILWAY STATION ACCESSIBILITY UPGRADE

Stannah to Manage Railway Station Accessibility Upgrade

ASCENT ELEVATORS ACQUIRES SELECT CENTURY ELEVATOR ASSETS

Ascent Elevators Acquires Select Century Elevator Assets

image courtesy of CMRL

Fujitec India Awarded CMRL Escalator Contract