Observe
Reads the signals the elevator already produces: floor, direction, doors, service state. It listens. It does not intervene.
Energy intelligence for elevators that already exist.
A retrofit device that learns your building’s rhythm and puts idle elevator systems to sleep between passengers, then wakes them before anyone arrives. It never touches certified safety control.
US provisional patent 64/126,224
Energy model follows ISO 25745-2
Edge-only, no cloud
An elevator spends far more time waiting than moving.
Cabin lighting, ventilation, displays and drive electronics keep drawing power through every quiet hour of the night.
Replacing the elevator is a capital project. Newer controllers idle efficiently, but the elevators already installed mostly cannot, and nothing retrofits the behaviour without reaching into the certified system that keeps passengers safe.
Four steps, and a hard boundary.
Forecast
Learns this building’s own rhythm, on the device. No cameras, no identities, no cloud.
Stand down
Puts idle subsystems into progressively deeper standby, then wakes them ahead of the next passenger, so the lift is ready before they are.
Shield
A deterministic safety shield filters every action to a pre-vetted set. The same code runs in simulation and on the installed device.
One edge module. One passive interface board. Removed, the elevator is exactly as it was.
Built for a machine that must never fail.
An elevator is a certified life-safety system. That constraint came first, and it decided the architecture rather than the other way around.
Never the safety chain. Not the brakes, the doors, or motion control.
Speed, acceleration, braking and energy recovery stay entirely under certified control.
Human override always wins. There is no mode in which that is not true.
ElevAI requests. The certified controller decides.
Fully reversible. Non-invasive, and removable without leaving the elevator degraded.
On the device, not in a cloud. Operation does not depend on a network link.
Anonymous by design. Where a sensor is used to see how busy a floor is,
it counts people and nothing more. Images stay on the device, are never stored, and are
never turned into a record of anyone. ElevAI models a building’s rhythm, never a
person’s routine.
The elevators of 2040 are already installed.
Most of the elevators that will run in Gulf buildings in 2040 are already in their shafts, commissioned before idle-energy behaviour was something anyone specified.
Regulation has already named the behaviour. Abu Dhabi’s Estidama Pearl Rating System asks that lifts:
offer idle/downtime features allowing the lift to operate in a stand-by mode during off-peak periods.Estidama Pearl Building Rating System, credit RE-4 (Vertical Transportation)
For a building yet to be built, the right controller answers that. For the buildings that already exist, there has been no equivalent answer.
Measured, or not claimed.
The system is built and tested end to end: forecasting, decision policy, safety shield, on-device services, and the measurement pipeline.
What it has not yet done is run in an occupied building. That is the next step, and it is structured deliberately: an independent supply-side meter, a baseline period before anything changes, then verification under IPMVP Option B and ASHRAE Guideline 14.
We publish no savings figure we have not measured.
Get in touch.
For pilot enquiries, technical questions, or partnership conversations:
elevai.lebanon@gmail.com