Emerging Technology
Otis Announces Made to Move Communities Competition Theme
On September 10, Otis announced the theme for this year’s Made to Move CommunitiesTM global student competition: applying AI to enable more inclusive and sustainability mobility solutions. More than 250...
Are We Prepared?
What would happen if the more than one million elevators in Spain stopped working? Technological innovation surrounds all areas of our lives, and this should make us think about situations...
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...
