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Deferred Lift Maintenance (+lift maintenance checklist)

Lift maintenance is a major unfunded liability for building owners. It is imperative to recognize the challenge, identify the need and provide an ongoing funding mechanism to address it.

Upgrade Your Elevator’s Reliability with Industry-Leading Emergency Communications

Avire is a trusted name around the world to help keep vertical transportation systems operating efficiently every day.

How Panachrome Plus keeps your lifts safe, compliant, and protects them from expensive damage

When it comes to lift doors, building managers have two concerns: that they open and close, and that they don’t injure anyone. Basic lift light curtains are designed to help with the latter, and there is clear safety legislation that regulates how they should protect users from injury.

How to convince your manager to modernise your lift system

If your lift is starting to show its age, a full replacement will seem like an expensive proposition. But you can renew and extend the life-span of your lift by modernising it instead. How do you get buy-in on lift modernisation?

Six benefits of smart lifts

When people think of a ‘smart building’, they often think of technology that helps you monitor and control things like heating, lights, even occupancy levels. But many people don’t realise that smart technology is available for lifts too.

The slow death of DTMF signalling

As telecoms networks evolve to meet the latest demands of consumers and businesses the level of support for DTMF signalling (in fact all analogue signalling) is changing and sadly not for the better.

Offices of the future

The shift in working over the last few months has been unprecedented. The Covid-19 pandemic forced businesses to take a totally new approach to conventional working, across all industries. With employers having to change working practices almost overnight, leaving Facility Managers under increased pressure to make sure facilities are compliant.

How to reduce the impact of COVID-19 for lift passengers

Social distancing has potentially become the most used term of 2020 so far, and with the re-opening of buildings and the need to re-adjust to a ‘new normal’ it is a vital behaviour that will be a part of daily life for quite a while to come

EN81-70:2018 For Touch Screens and Destination Control Systems

A few decades ago, touchscreen technology was only prevalent in science fiction. Nowadays daily life regularly features touchscreens, whether it be homes, cars, planes, stores, restaurants – they are ingrained into our daily lives.

Why use connected devices?

An overview of the trends in the industry outlining the benefits of gathering data on and around elevators - what information is being gathered and how it is of use to different parties.

What is a smart building?

Smart buildings are sometimes referred to as 'automated buildings', 'intelligent buildings' or buildings that incorporate smart technology. A smart building is any structure that uses automated processes to automatically control the building’s operations including heating, ventilation, air conditioning, lighting, vertical transportation and other systems.

Maintenance and Modernisation market about to grow in China

Recently, the elevator maintenance and modernisation market has become a hot topic in China. This article will address the current status of China's elevator maintenance and modernisation market from the perspective of market information, laws and regulations.

Top Tips for Autodialler Installations

Most autodiallers (also known as emergency telephones) will be installed without issue but if you do run into trouble here are some helpful tips that our technical team have compiled to assist you in resolving any problems.

Child safety in lifts

Lifts are one of the safest forms of transportation provided that they are correctly installed, and regularly and thoroughly maintained. Every year, however, many children are harmed or killed in lifts. Young children, especially those younger than 5 years of age, often lack the strength, coordination, balance, and protective reflexes to avoid injury.

What is CANBus?

CANBus (Controller Area Network) is a vehicle bus standard designed to allow smart devices to communicate with each other through a robust, low-cost message-based protocol.

Understanding Cellular Networks

As the elevator industry advances towards connectivity and the Internet of Things (IoT), it is important to understand the cellular network types used.

The History of Lifts: Where did it all begin?

Interesting lift fact: as a group, they carry the equivalent of the world’s population in three days. They have played an important role in shaping our world and our lives.

Elevator Safety, Door Edges & EN81 Lift Standards

As of September 2017 all new lifts in Europe must comply with EN81-20 and EN81-50 Elevator Standards. These standards were approved in 2014 to replace EN81-1 and EN81-2, and after a grace period for the elevator maintenance and installation industry to prepare, these elevator standards are now mandatory for all new lifts.

EN81-71: Lift standards for Vandal Resistant Lift Components

Vandalism is a major concern for lift owners; damage through misuse and abuse impacts both the availability of lifts, and passenger safety. EN81-71:2018 is a harmonised European Standard which outlines additional protective measures to improve the vandal resistance of lift installations.

The Most Effective Elevator Door-Edge Safety Systems with LED and 3D Technologies

Light curtains for elevator door edges have been the established technology for protecting passengers from door impacts for many years. Their usage is described in the relevant codes in many regions and some basic light curtains can meet the standards.

Advertising on elevator LCD displays

LCD display installations are becoming much more popular when replacing traditional dot matrix displays. With the growth of LCD displays there is clearly an improved visual benefit as you can display richer graphical content but there is also the opportunity for advertising on screens. This can be specifically targeted at demographics based on the installation space.

Smart Elevators Use Cloud Computing

Cloud computing is the delivery of computing services – servers, storage, databases, networking, software, analytics and more – over the Internet (“the cloud”).

Lift Connectivity

Connectivity within the lift industry using the latest elevator technology provides many benefits to providers, owners, and passengers, leading to a broader understanding of lift use and maintenance.

When will 2G networks be turned off?

The implementation of faster and more efficient 3G and 4G networks have reduced the demand for 2G. Providers have reassessed the need to provide 2G and are gradually decommissioning the 2G network.

EN81-28:2018 – What You Need to Know

Since 2003, Part 28 has been the industry’s reference for installing, testing, and designing emergency telephones. Now in 2018 we are seeing a major revision. How will the revision affect you?

Light Immunity Explained

How do Avire’s light curtains achieve enhanced light immunity?

Lift door safety

When selecting a suitable light curtain for your lift door safety application it is important to consider several factors before making your decision. Diode count, number of beams and response time all play a part in determining the relative performance of a particular detector, and no feature should be judged in isolation.

EN81-72 Fire-Fighting Lift Regulations

In 2015, the European Committee for Standardisation released an update to the standard for the installation of Firefighter Lifts, EN81-72:2015. This replaced the 2003 version of the same standard.

EN81-20 Detectors

In August 2014 two new standards covering lift design (EN 81-20:2014) and installation requirements (EN 81-50:2014) were released in Europe. These replace EN 81-1:1998+A3:2009 and EN 81-2:1998+A3:2009, which were 15 years old and needed upgrading to comply with modern safety requirements. It is expected that the new standards will also be adopted in China, South America and Australia.

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