March 24, 2003—Elevator display specialist E-Motive, a subsidiary of the Halma Group, supplied custom-designed displays and a lift monitoring system to the new Al Faisaliah building in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, contributing to the installation’s choice as Elevator World magazine’s “Elevator Project of the Year” award in 2002.
Twenty-two of the building’s elevators were fitted with E-Motive’s customized FS1040 full-color LCD position indicators. These feature high-resolution displays showing elevator position, direction, date, and time, as well as floor directories and different company logos for each floor. The units are programmable to display a wide range of messages, from weather forecasts and special greetings to forthcoming events. Real-time messages, such as news flashes or public warnings, can also be relayed from a remote PC through an RS485 serial interface.
E-Motive also supplied a state-of-the-art Lift Monitoring System for all of the 48 elevators, 20 escalators, and 4 dumb waiters in the building. The monitoring system records traffic flow and the current status of all the units, and different options in each elevator can be switched on or off and can be modified from a control terminal. The monitoring system also has the special option of analysis, allowing the performance of each elevator to be obtained in the form of graphic analysis, change in status, landing call response time, and details of landing call.
