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New Infrastructure of Elevator Remote Monitoring System and Expansion of Services

Hitachi innovations improve response to problems and offer customers offsite access to displays and other functions. This paper was presented at Madrid 2016, the International Congress on Vertical Transportation Technologies,...

KEB Systems Show Promise of Remote Monitoring

Company’s remote monitoring, IoT solutions enter the vertical-transportation industry. Many manufacturers offer a remote-monitoring option, which includes real-time system information such as car position, status, fault logs and more. This...

Evolution of Monitoring Design

Integrated monitoring in the modern building-management industry by Luc Hebert and Stéphane Dufour The world of elevators has evolved significantly over time, from hydraulic elevators to the first traction machines,...

Efficiency of Lift Maintenance Enhanced by Digitalizing Data

Liftinstituut sees how customers want to gain an overview of their customer data via remote monitoring. By Koos van Lindenberg and Joey Tienhooven Various parties in the lift industry collect...

Optimum Uptime

Texas-based Kings III describes the evolution of its ORM service. David Bryant (DB), vice president at Kings III Emergency Communications, took the time to talk with ELEVATOR WORLD (EW) about...

Transitioning to New Maintenance Strategies With Remote Monitoring

Leveraging IoT in elevator maintenance by Dan Bryant, Johannes Guntsch, Kyle Hendren and Christopher Pearce Elevator downtime slows people and operations. Additionally, we find there is not enough information coming...

Emergency Communications Are Often Overlooked

Readers Platform outlines cost-effective ways to improve vital safety system. Over the summer, we were all shocked by the headline, “Elderly man found dead in elevator after he called for...

Emergency Power Operation with Regenerative Drives

Line regenerative systems, like the KEB R6 regenerative drive (Figure 1), have become popular options in elevator applications over recent years. The increased use of efficient permanent-magnet gearless motors in...

Evaluation of the Escalator Truss Subjected to Forced Displacement for Seismic Design

An accurate method of analysis for seismic design is detailed. by Kentaro Sekiguchi, Noritaka Horie and Hirobumi Utsunomiya This paper was presented at  Madrid 2016, the International Congress on Vertical...

Stairwells Are Not for Wheelchairs

In this Industry Dialogue, Garaventa’s Trevor de Jaray discusses Evacu-Trac products and how they fit in to a “kinder and gentler” world. With the U.S. federal government and companies such...