Technology
Modern Information Systems for Elevators
Products can help create a more user-friendly experience for owners, operators and users. Members of today’s society use smartphones and tablet PCs everywhere, and expect similar user interfaces from other...
Data-Driven Maintenance
Making use of the Internet of Things, big data and machine learning This article was first presented at the Fifth Symposium on Lift & Escalator Technologies, www.liftsymposium.org. New technologies such...
South Korea’s Escalator Technology Is Climbing
Sinnam Station Subway Line 3 in Daegu City earns national record as longest new escalator. In April 2015, South Korea’s new longest escalator in the country commenced operation. It had...
How Fast Could the Fastest Elevators Be?
Examining what limits passenger-elevator speed and how faster ones will come to be available by Dr. Albert So and Ricky Chan Last year, the first author of this article published...
The Meeting of Elevators and Technology by Richard Taylor
A sea change in how the industry transfers data is taking place. Not too long ago, it was “good enough” for elevators to just shuttle people and goods from one...
Door Technology for High-Rise Applications
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...
A Composite Future?
Newly formed entity Pronus is betting the lift industry will benefit from lightweight, strong, corrosion-resistant technology. Pronus, a Hong Kong-registered company, was formed this year by the owners of Sakura...
BIM Up Your Elevator
Building information modeling will reach all of us in the elevator industry in the near future. Building information modeling (BIM) is a method to optimize the planning, implementation and management...
Streamlined
Quality Elevator has gone paperless, and management, employees and customers couldn’t be happier. It’s no secret that elevator people, independents in particular, love paper – handwritten bills, work orders, etc....
IoT and Elevators
Four considerations for moving forward by Sanjay Kamani and Jonathan Tombes Technology buzzwords come and go. But every now and then, one sticks. Take the Internet of Things (IoT). Fifteen...
