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KONE TEAMING WITH STARTUP FOR INTERCONNECTIVITY
KONE is partnering with Estonian startup Indoor Ninja, a developer of cloud-based visitor-management services, to improve and automate check-in for office building visitors. When entering a lobby, a visitor is prompted to look at a tablet that lists all the companies and employees in the building. The visitor selects the desired host, who receives a video call on his or her smartphone, which allows the host to identify the visitor. Then, the host can send an elevator to pick the guest up from the lobby. Office occupants can also use the associated app to call elevators in advance for themselves. Retrofitting the system to older buildings with KONE elevators is also possible. The solution is still being tested in Finland, the Baltics, the U.K. and Israel.
NEW PRESIDENT FOR EMR AS IT CELEBRATES 90 YEARS
Caroline Kauffman-Kirschnick has been appointed president of Electric Motor Repair Co. (EMR), which performs emergency service and planned maintenance in several industries, including the elevator sector. Kauffman-Kirschnick will replace her father, Roger Kauffman. She began her career at EMR working summers during her junior high and high school years. Her full-time career at EMR began in October 2003, when she began in accounts receivable before moving into human resources. Five years later, she moved to a role in operations, followed by sales. Then, she transferred to EMR’s Delaware branch, where she served as assistant branch manager before being promoted to operations manager. Three years later, she returned to Baltimore as the operations manager at EMR’s headquarters. Her most recent promotion was in June 2015, to general manager overseeing all branches and service areas.
BOY’S FINGERS REATTACHED AFTER DUBAI ELEVATOR MISHAP
The fingers of a boy's right hand were reattached at a local hospital after being severed in an elevator mishap in Dubai, the Khaleej Times reported on November 6. The boy, a resident of a Gulf Cooperation Council country, was rescued by the Dubai Police within minutes of the incident, said to have happened as a result of his playing. A Dubai Police official said personnel are available 24/7 to respond to such incidents, and that the police rescued 157 women and children trapped in cars, elevators and restrooms from January to mid September.
NORTHAMPTON SYMPOSIUM: FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
The ninth edition of the Symposium on Lift and Escalator Technologies has been announced for September 19-20, 2018, in Northampton, U.K. The first call for abstracts of peer-reviewed papers to be presented at the event was recently issued. Speakers will include industry experts, academics and postgraduate students. The deadline for abstract submission for the May 15, 2018, eighth Symposium on Lift and Escalator Technologies in Hong Kong is November 30, with notifications of acceptance to be sent by the end of the year.
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https://www.khaleejtimes.com/nation/dubai/dubai-police-rescue-boy-whose-fingers-got-severed-in-lift-
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