Along with the development of 5G, IoT, and AI technologies, the smart elevator industry also enters its prime time featuring high growth. However, even if enterprises have applied thousands of new technologies to smart elevators, they are confined to the elevator spare parts level and single dimensional technological upgrades. No meaningful industrial break-through is achieved.

Haier Hainayun launches Hainayun IoE Ecosystem which employs a unique 1+3+N model and adopts brand new smart elevator concepts. The Hainayun IoE Ecosystem will reinvent the smart elevator industry and reshape the industrial structure.

An innovative 1+3+N model; redefine IoT in smart elevators

As a special public transportation equipment, the elevator industry is undergoing high-speed growth. The installation of elevators in China recorded a 10% growth from 2011 to 2019. By the end of 2019, there are over 7 million elevators in China. The number is expected to reach over 10 million by 2023.

The traditional elevator industry is essentially “an industry that produces elevators”. Issues such as unclear management responsibilities, lack of maintenance system, service capability and life cycle liability system are perpetual in the industry.

With respect to IoT services, the IoT system of the traditional elevator industry including software and hardware is largely divided and fragmented. Most elevator enterprises are fighting their own battles with independently designed motherboards and IoT ports, which do not follow uniform data standards. Also, most of the installed elevators in China are not supported by IoT detection equipment, and the data protocols are also different among elevator brands. These issues have limited the development of the elevator industry.  

The 1+3+N model unique to the Haier Hainayun IoE Ecosystem has changed the traditional understanding of elevators and redefined the IoT concept in smart elevators.

Haier Hainayun IoE 1+3+N model

This model consists of one key foundation – one Hainayun AIOT, three open ecosystems – a safety platform, maintenance platform and community service platform as well as N experience scenarioses including security guard, contact-free entry, smart dispatch, healthy elevator environment, smart service, etc.  

The Haier Hainayun IoE Ecosystem focuses on IoE scenario ecosystems and integrates IoT technologies, elevator control and co-labs, etc. to create more experience scenarioses in three open eco-platforms. Smart elevators have been turned into a live and interconnected organic whole. In the Hainayun IoE mode, every party of the industry including government, R&D, factories, enterprises and users can make a difference in the development of the industry and receive proper feedback.

The IoT in the Haier Hainayun IoE Ecosystem features flexibility in technological development, integrated resources and customized products. In other words, the Hainayun IoE Ecosystem is a live system because of its IoT capability. This kind of new IoT thinking transcends the traditional instrumented smart elevators to a large degree.

User experience first; equip smart elevators with scenario intelligence

The Haier Hainayun IoE Ecosystem creates unlimited experience scenarioses for different users. Users with different needs can also find corresponding customized solutions on the eco-platforms.

“Security Guard and Smart Elevator” are two featured scenarioses of the Haier Hainayun IoE Ecosystem. Security Guard, with the elevator black box technology, provides real-time monitoring of the elevator status and alerts of abnormal operations. By taking preventative measures, Security Guard ensures the safety of passengers and reduces the failure rate. It combines the smart elevator platform and APP to achieve maintenance management, work order distribution, and rescue and tracking of trapped persons. In the meantime, the scenario integrates AI behavior algorithms, fall detection, lost items records, passenger counts, e-bike detection etc. Relevant information will be displayed on the smart screen in the elevator for a better and safer passenger experience.

Hainayun IoE System Plan

The Smart Elevator scenario is an upgrade of traditional elevators, which are managed with an access card. By leveraging the comprehensive product line of Hainayun IoE, smart elevators integrate traditional access control measures such as access card, Bluetooth and fingerprints as well as new authorization methods including QR code and face recognition. Moreover, smart elevators interact with building access control systems, parking barrier gates, entrance gates, building intercom equipment etc. After passengers enter the interactive scenario, smart elevators will standby and wait for them.

The Hainayun IoE Ecosystem also builds an IoT technology platform that utilizes existing technologies, AI algorithms and big data analysis. By taking into consideration elevator service life, brand features, maintenance records, failure analysis etc., this platform makes sure that the elevator is maintained as actually needed. Also, the platform establishes cooperation with well-known insurance providers to provide safe and reliable elevator solutions and achieve a full-life cycle elevator management covering IoT, Insurance and maintenance.

The Haier Hainayun IoE Ecosystem offers solutions that will benefit users such as government, enterprises, communities, hospitals, schools, commercial buildings, hotels, elevator manufacturer, maintenance companies, insurance companies and community services and ensure safety, highly-efficient IoT, comfort, health, smart environmental protection, energy conservation, cost control and efficiency.

Absolute competitiveness with cutting-edge technologies

The Hainayun IoE Ecosystem enjoys absolute advantages in multiple facets.

First, the Hainayun IoE Ecosystem differs greatly from traditional elevator IoT products, which focus mostly on how to notify maintenance workers and property management teams as soon as possible after an elevator failure occur. This one-response-fits  -all method is low in efficiency and high in false alarm rate.

The Hainayun IoE Ecosystem adopts Heinrich's law as its guiding principle. The law concludes that major accidents are caused by minor incidents which can be predicted by many early signs. Therefore, any accidents are preventable by minimizing the number of minor incidents. The Hainayun IoE Ecosystem adheres to the law and takes necessary preventative measures to avoid any possible problems in elevators.  

Taking the built-in monitoring system of elevators as an example, traditional elevators lack continuous monitoring, historical data review and in-depth analysis. The built-in system cannot detect its own problems and bugs and interact with other elevator brands in terms of big data analysis. As an independent attached system, Hainayun IoE Ecosystem can offer scientific detections without itself being subject to the elevator system failures.  

Other third-party IoEs in the market are mostly an imitation of built-in elevator detection systems. These IoEs simply install similar sensors to detect the motions of the elevator. The Hainayun IoE Ecosystem has forsaken this model, because the added sensors will interfere with the built-in sensors of the elevator and incur more maintenance costs. The brand new Hainayun IoE Ecosystem features more accurate, stable and reliable monitoring, straightforward installation, easy upgrade and maintenance.  

The elevator failure prediction technology in the Security Guard scenario is unique to the Hainayun IoE Ecosystem. With the support of the technology, the system monitors the operation curve of the elevator, detects and adapts parameters according to the actual status by digital modelling and self-adaptation. Security Guard also conducts data analysis, security analysis and needs analysis before producing an evalsuation report of elevator safety. In the final step, according to other monitoring data, the system will provide a feasibility report that may integrate smart analysis and maintenance data in the future and create a technical solution for onsite maintenance staff to refer to.  

Currently, the Hainayun IoE Ecosystem is building a distinctive and all-win platform. By upholding the Haier Spirit of “A Trusted Ecosystem, A Win-win Evolution”, theHainayun IoE Ecosystem connects every party in the industry including government, scientific research institutions, enterprises, communities and users. Every party will become a beneficiary of the ecosystem and contribute to the growth of the ecosystem with their own development.

Take advantage of the reform and reshape the industry

On 10th April 2020, the State Administration for Market Regulation issued the Guidanceon Further Improving Elevator Maintenance Modes and Adjusting Elevator Inspection and Testing Pilot – Special Equipment [2020] No. 56to commence the reform of the elevator industry. This official guidance offers great opportunities for the Hainayun IoE Ecosystem.

The Haier Hainayun IoE Ecosystem is now on the fast track of development. Its Security Guard scenario has been deployed in over 10 projects including Cloud Park, Dingshihuafu Estate, Qingdao Time Square Estate and Shanhaiwan Estate etc. In these projects, the elevator management has been made easier and more convenient, and the failure rate has been reduced by over 30%.

The Haier Hainayun IoE Ecosystem commits itself to a comprehensive coverage in 30 cities, 200 communities, 1.5 million population, 40,000 elevators and 500,000 APP interactions by 2022.

The Haier Hainayun IoE Ecosystem, with its scenario capability, is bringing the benefits of smart technology to every city. In the future, as the first ecosystem brand of IoE, a leader in smart elevator scenario and a pioneer in the industrial standards, the Haier Hainayun IoE Ecosystem is committed to being a solution provider in government social governance, community service and better user experience. In the era of smart +, the Haier Hainayun IoE Ecosystem will generate more possibilities in the elevator industry.