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ELEVATORS & ESCALATORS
GUEST ARTICLE
Innovation is at the heart of
TK Elevator’s core values, the
company transforms lives
through pioneering mobility
solutions.
MANISH MEHAN, CEO & MD,
TK ELEVATOR (INDIA) PVT. LTD.,
provides his insights on the
latest trends in the elevator
industry.
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Green practice in elevators:
Focus on 2022
Elevators have come a long way from a current availability levels of existing and
wooden box hooked by a pulley in the 300 new elevators. Utilizing the power of
B.C to a human-powered, counter-weighted, Microsoft Azure Internet of Things (IoT)
personal elevator build in 1743, hydraulic technology, MAX predicts maintenance
issues before they occur, and empowers
crane build in the year 1846, to the 1st electric
elevator in the 19th century. The elevator elevator engineers by flagging the need
trends have been improvising unfailingly. But to replace components and systems
what is the future and need of elevators in the before the end of their lifecycle.
upcoming new year? • Machine room-less technology, the MRL
The answer is “Green Elevators”. Green Elevator elevators use a gearless traction machine
is a trend the elevator industry is following for located in the hoistway moving the cab
a few years now. But never less it is sure that through the hoistway.
the trend will be followed for a considerable • Rope-less elevator such as MULTI, the
upcoming span as elevator businesses around world’s first rope-free elevator invented
the planet are putting efforts to build and by TK Elevator has multiple cars moving
develop new technologies and designs that in a single shaft vertically and horizontally
are sustainable and consume less energy. and reduces the required space for
elevator shafts while increasing passenger
Current Innovation trends in the elevator throughput.
Industry • MULTI is set to revolutionize tall building
Digital transformation in elevators has come construction. With MULTI’s rope-free
up with primary inventions and advancements system, architects and developers are
such as the launch of: no longer restricted in their designs by
• Smart elevators such as IoT-based concerns about elevator shaft height and
elevators that can monitor performance, vertical alignment. MULTI opens the door
make real-time maintenance decisions, to design possibilities in all directions.
provide updated status, advance • TK Elevator’s, TWIN elevator system consists
reporting, control, and monitor the elevator of two cabs that operate in the same
remotely. For instance, TK Elevator’s, shaft independent of each other. Both
“MAX”, which is a game-changing cabs operate under the same intelligent
predictive and pre-emptive maintenance group control system and are equipped
solution that extends remote monitoring with an innovative quadruple redundancy
capabilities to dramatically increase safety system. It uses less energy while