Create value with wisdom, Hitachi Elevator appeared in the 2020 Elevator Exhibition

本站 09-01 15:38

Recently, the 2020 China International Elevator Exhibition was held in Shanghai. As the transportation tool for shuttling in buildings, the elevator is not only an tool that provides people with longitudinal and lateral movement, but also a service device for people movement during work and daily lives, striving to be more comfortable, intelligent and efficient. Hitachi Elevator (China) Co., Ltd., showcased intelligent buildings and smart elevators in the era of 5G IoT, as well as vertical transportation solutions based on elevator big data and cloud services at the exhibition.


"Contactless" makes the elevator safe to ride.


The outbreak of the novel coronavirus epidemic has pushed elevators, a relatively small and confined public space with a large flow of people, to the forefront of public concern about health prevention. The "Notice on Elevator Safety Supervision during Epidemic Prevention and Control" released earlier this year also specifies that focus should be on ventilation, cleaning and disinfection of elevator waiting rooms, cars, buttons, escalator handrails and other areas where passengers gather and parts that are easily accessible. This makes "contactless" a great treasure for safe elevator rides.


In Hitachi Elevator's exhibition area at the elevator exhibition, the reporter experienced its latest contactless elevator solution. “I want to go downstairs”. This is not a dialogue with service personnel controlling the elevator, but an order directly to the elevator in their building to send instructions for that. The staff introduced to this reporter that, due to wide application of WeChat, Hitachi Elevator's contactless elevator ride system, based on cloud platform technology, came into being. Giving orders through WeChat Official Account, users can interact with the elevator and instruct directly on cell phones to select floors. The manager can also customize management of the restricted floors and personnel authority as required.


"Intelligent elevators provide people with a series of contactless elevator ride solutions. The gestures, voice, and facial recognition can be used to order an elevator quickly in a contactless manner. This can effectively avoid virus spread by pressing buttons when people are waiting for the elevator." In addition, it is reported that the method of wakeup-free elevator usage via voice is an initial innovation by Hitachi Elevator. The system also includes a variety of local dialects and international languages for different regions in China, as well as different markets overseas.


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Internet of Things (IoT) and interconnection provide quality assurance for on-demand services


In April this year, the State Administration for Market Regulation issued a document to encourage promotion of elevator installation based on the IoT remote monitoring system, to set up an elevator-IoT standardization coordination mechanism, construct a unified and applicable elevator-IoT standard system to achieve the interconnection between elevator and IoT.


It is also reported that Hitachi Elevator is one of the earliest enterprises involved in elevator IoT. At the exhibition, Hitachi displayed its latest on-demand maintenance solution. Under the on-demand maintenance mode, Hitachi Elevator realizes an interconnection of the customer system, big data system, maintenance station and parts center through ELECLOUD® Cloud Service Center, and provides an exclusive operation status monitoring module for each elevator to ensure safe operation of elevators.


Xu Junjie, General Manager of the Engineering HQ of Hitachi Elevator (China) Co. Ltd., said in an interview with reporters during the exhibition: “During the epidemic, even if maintenance personnel could not go to the site due to safety prevention and control, it will not affect our on-demand maintenance work. Hitachi has been equipped with a wireless remote monitoring function nationwide since 2013. Currently, we are monitoring nearly 230,000 elevators on our cloud. One elevator needs to have 600 pieces of data detected, Therefore, on-demand maintenance of such a huge amount of data can be easily completed based on the support of IoT."


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ELECLOUD® Cloud Service Center


According to the report, for the performance of each component during the operation of an elevator, Hitachi Elevator ELECLOUD® Cloud Service Center has conducted the elevator AI pre-diagnosis for more than 600 items. According to operation frequency, usage environment and component life, the center monitors status information before an occurrence of elevator failure in a timely manner. and arranges engineers to carry out maintenance in advance. This can greatly avoid the occurrence of elevator shutdown, trapped in elevator, and elevator fault. According to the actual test, elevator failure can decrease by 65% after pre-diagnosis. This can reduce the human resource cost of fault monitoring for customers by more than 90%.


At present, Hitachi Elevator has completed joint construction of elevator-IoT maintenance with more than 20 local governments and property groups nationwide, laying the foundation for promotion of on-demand maintenance on a larger scale later.


Intelligent solutions contribute to the Chinese market


Data show that by the end of 2019, the total number of elevators in China has reached more than 7.5 million units, and production of elevators is close to 1 million units, with an annual growth of more than 15%.Despite the impact of COVID-19 epidemic in 2020, in the context of the global economic downturn and rising trade protectionism, elevator production has maintained growth compared with the same period last year. The domestic and international elevator markets remain optimistic.


"In the first half of this year, the global economy was hit by the epidemic, but the growth rate of China's elevators increased by 3% compared to the average of the same period in 2019.Seventy percent of the world's elevators are produced in China. Elevators in China currently account for 40% of the world's elevators. I believe that in the next one to two years, China will have more than 50% of the world's elevators. These figures are a big encouragement for us. "Xu Junjie told reporters that, in addition to a large number of elevators operating in China, the scale of old elevator renewal, elevator installation for old buildings and family elevator markets are also quite large. According to the statistics of Hitachi Elevator Marketing Department, at present in Guangzhou, more than 65% of the elevators are installed by Hitachi." We hope to extend the model in Guangzhou to the whole country."


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Along with the social and economic development, as well as improvement of people's living standards, the requirements for elevator products are getting higher and higher. With the promotion of artificial intelligence, Internet of things, 5G and other new technologies, the traditional elevator industry is further transforming to digital and intelligent.


At the exhibition, Hitachi Elevator also displayed HPES new generation intelligent product platform, to empower passenger elevators, freight elevators, medical elevators, sightseeing elevators and other application scenarios through the platform, and provide a number of elevator intelligent technologies such as global leading intelligent operation control, intelligent safety protection and intelligent elevator riding experience.


All is for better elevator experiences of passengers. Hitachi fully considers various possibilities that passengers and elevators may encounter in the process of riding elevators, and enables passengers to understand the changes of elevators, buildings and the outside environment in real time through text, pictures and sound and color LCD screens, so as to realize necessary and timely information communication and guidance for elevator usage. For escalators, visual management is implemented through application of intelligent devices, cameras and big data. For China's urban rail transportation, because stations are always crowded by a large number of passengers and the flow of people changes rapidly, the visual safety management system built by Hitachi Elevator can intelligently detect and analyze passenger flow, and enable the safe operation mode of the escalator through the control system in case of an emergency.

 

"China is the largest market for Hitachi Elevators in the world and has the greatest performance. Providing more humane and differentiated services for this market is a major goal we pursue." Xu Junjie said that 2020 is the 25th year of Hitachi Elevator's official entry into China. In the past 25 years, the company has witnessed the rapid development of China's economy and gained growth together with the urbanization process in China. "The new infrastructure has brought more opportunities for Hitachi Elevator, and we will continue to make efforts to promote high-quality development of China's economy and fine management of the city, as well as the high-quality and beautiful life people pursue." (reported by Zhu Lin from Economic Daily)


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