Elevate & Elevate Express

About Elevate

Elevate™ is software used by designers world-wide to select the number, size and speed of elevators for all types of new buildings. Elevate™ can also be used to demonstrate that modernizing an existing elevator installation will improve service for passengers.

Elevate’s features include

Analysis of elevator performance in offices, hotels, hospitals, shopping centres, residential buildings, car parks, mixed use buildings, airports, public buildings, sports and leisure complexes, schools and colleges.
This is achieved by techniques ranging from up peak round trip time calculations through to full dynamic simulation.
Dynamic simulation incorporating a graphical display of elevators responding to passenger calls. For your clients, this provides a convincing visual demonstration of your proposals.
An easy to use Windows interface. Enter basic information for a quick analysis or comprehensive data for a detailed model.
In addition to standard reports, transfer input data and results to Microsoft Excel at the click of a button. Excel reports also include extensive additional analysis results.
Supplied with a fully comprehensive help system and user support.

Elevate™ is also an excellent tool for developing, testing, and demonstrating your own control systems.

About Elevate Express

Not everyone needs the full features of Elevate™. Elevate™ Express is the basic version of Elevate, but is still more advanced than most other elevator traffic analysis software!

Elevate Express’ features include

Analyze up peak traffic using both round trip time calculations and full dynamic simulation.
Intended mainly for analysis of office buildings, but may be used for benchmark calculations for other types of building.
Calculates result for a range of sizes and speeds in a single run so you can find the optimum solution quickly.
Easy to use Windows interface.
For high rise building, elevator groups with express zones may be analyzed.
Provides comprehensive printable reports with your company name in the title for presentation of your design to clients.
Option to upgrade to the full version of Elevate.

Summary of Features

Features	Elevate	Elevate Express
Analysis Data
Up peak analysis - assumes all people arrive at the ground floor, calculates handling capacity and interval	ü	ü
Enhanced up peak analysis - like up peak, but you specify the target handling capacity	ü
General analysis - people can arrive at any floor - calculate up peak, two way, basement service and more!	ü
General analysis for double deck elevators - all traffic flows, but with double deck elevators	ü
Simulation - models the whole process of people being transported by the elevators	ü	ü*
Selection of control systems including conventional and destination dispatch	ü	ü*
Use Elevate to implement, test and demonstrate your own dispatcher algorithms with simulation	ü
Select Metric or U.S. (imperial) units	ü	ü
Building Data
Enter floor name and floor level, up to 100 floors served per group	ü	ü
Express zones	ü	ü
Unlimited entrance floors at any level	ü
Single entrance floor at the lowest level in the building		ü
Elevator Data
Enter number of elevators, maximum 12 per group	ü	ü
Enter any capacity or select from standard sizes	ü	ü
Enter door times, or allow Elevate to choose automatically based on capacity	ü	ü
Enter any speed or select from standard speeds	ü	ü
Enter any acceleration and jerk rate or allow Elevate to choose based on speed	ü	ü
SELECT and SPECIFY features to help you analyse many different configurations in single run	ü	ü
Report options to automatically reject results that do not meet your criteria	ü	ü
Option for elevators in a group not to serve the same floors, e.g. basement service by only part of the group	ü
Option for elevators to be specified individually, e.g. different sizes and speeds in the same group	ü
Passenger Data
Enter passenger loading and unloading times	ü	ü
Enter passenger mass	ü	ü
Enter capacity factor	ü	ü
Enter length of simulation run	ü	ü
Enter stair factor	ü	ü
Enter floor population	ü	ü
Passengers may arrive at any floor	ü
Passengers may arrive at ground (lowest) floor only		ü
Option to mix traffic types, for example passengers, goods, porter with trolley	ü
Option to change intensity of traffic by time of day	ü
Tools to assist fast entry of common traffic flows	ü
Option to provide Elevate with a list of pasengers, and define each passenger individually	ü
Printed Output
Summary of data entered and results calculated - includes your job titles, company name and logo	ü	ü
Select toolbar button to transfer the data and results to Excel (if installed on your computer)	ü
Maintenance and support
Support - email (preferred) and telephone support included from date of purchase for:	1 year	1 year
Maintenance - upgrades issued to the software provided at no additional charge, from date of purchase for:	1 year	1 year
Option to renew maintenance and support with Peters Research Ltd at end of free period	ü	ü
Option to purchase future upgrades from Elevator World	ü	ü
Available Formats
Software and manual available for download from internet	ü	ü
Software available via Internet download with printed manual	ü
Activating Elevate
When you purchase, we provide a key to unlock the software on our computer (plugs into USB port)	ü
When you have purchased, we provide an unlocking code which unlocks the software on your computer		ü

* indicates for up peak only