Features

Elevate

Elevate Express
Analysis Data    

Up peak analysis - assumes all people arrive at the ground floor, calculates handling capacity and interval

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Enhanced up peak analysis - like up peak, but you specify the target handling capacity

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General analysis - people can arrive at any floor - calculate up peak, two way, basement service and more!

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General analysis for double deck elevators – all traffic flows, but with double deck elevators

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Simulation - models the whole process of people being transported by the elevators

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Selection of control systems including conventional and destination dispatch

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Use Elevate to implement, test and demonstrate your own dispatcher algorithms with simulation

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Select Metric or U.S. (imperial) units

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Building Data

 

 

Enter floor name and floor level, up to 100 floors served per group

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Express zones

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Elevator Data

 

 

Enter number of elevators, maximum 12 per group

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Enter any capacity or select from standard sizes

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Enter door times, or allow Elevate to choose automatically based on capacity

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Enter any speed or select from standard speeds

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Enter any acceleration and jerk rate or allow Elevate to choose based on speed

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SELECT and SPECIFY features to help you analyse many different configurations in single run

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Report options to automatically reject results that do not meet your criteria

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Option for elevators in a group not to serve the same floors, e.g. basement service by only part of the group

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Option for elevators to be specified individually, e.g. different sizes and speeds in the same group

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Passenger Data

 

 

Enter passenger loading and unloading times

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Enter passenger mass

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Enter capacity factor

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Enter length of simulation run

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Enter stair factor

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Enter floor population

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Passengers may arrive at any floor

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Passengers may arrive at ground (lowest) floor only

 

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Option to mix traffic types, for example passengers, goods, porter with trolley

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Option to change intensity of traffic by time of day

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Tools to assist fast entry of common traffic flows

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Option to provide Elevate with a list of passengers, and define each passenger individually

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Printed Output

 

 

Summary of data entered and results calculated - includes your job titles, company name and logo

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Select toolbar button to transfer the data and results to Excel (if installed on your computer)

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Maintenance and support

 

 

Support - telephone, fax and email support included from date of purchase for:

1 year

90 days

Maintenance - upgrades issued to the software provided at no additional charge, from date of purchase for:

1 year

90 days

Option to renew maintenance and support with Peters Research Ltd at end of free period

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Option to purchase future upgrades from Elevator World

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Available Formats

 

 

Software and manual available for download from internet

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Software provided on CD with printed manual

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Activating Elevate

 

 

When you purchase, we provide a key to unlock the software on your computer (plugs into USB port)

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When you have purchased, we provide an unlocking code which unlocks the software on your computer

 

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* indicates for up peak only