Today, the home lift industry in Thailand (Home Lift Thailand) is evolving rapidly and continuously. The term smart lift ( Smart Lift) can be defined in several ways, but broadly it means a lift that uses modern technology and control systems to deliver greater efficiency and greater everyday convenience, along with services that make life easier for the user — internet connectivity, better analysis of lift data, and lower energy consumption than conventional models, for example. It must also be able to be styled to suit the home, and offer a high level of safety.
In this article, we look at what a “smart lift” really needs to have.
1.A Smart Lift Must Be Easy to Install
Choosing a home lift for a house that has already been built means weighing up a number of things, such as altering the existing structure. Cibes Lift lifts are designed for homes that are already built, homes under construction and homes still on the drawing board. That is why we are one of the world’s leading home lift specialists — we never stop developing our designs and our lift systems.
Installs Without Altering the House Structure
Every Cibes Lift lift is manufactured and delivered as a Modular Design , an innovative Swedish concept. Modular design is a design theory and practice that breaks a product down into parts called modules, ensuring fast delivery and smooth installation with no additional costs. The lift comes with its own shaft, needs no pit excavation and no machine room above the lift, and is installed without altering the structure of the house.
A Wide Range of Sizes to Choose From
If you want a home that feels open, airy and uncluttered but space is tight, finding room for a home lift can be difficult. With up to 41 sizes to choose from, our lifts let you pick the corner of the home that suits you — a lift fitted in the middle of the staircase, for example, or a larger lift for a household caring for a patient.
Smallest Home Lift at Just 1 sq.m., Fits Narrow Spaces
Our smallest home lift model has a standing area, or platform, of 600×830 mm (width x depth) and a total lift footprint of 1000×993 mm (including the door and the shaft). That is no bigger than a wardrobe.
Largest Home Lift at 5 sq.m., Carrying Over 1,000 kg
If you need a large lift, our biggest goods lift has a standing area, or platform, of 1405×2480 mm (width x depth) and a total lift footprint of 1895×2610 mm. A lift that size needs almost 5 sq.m. of space — big enough to take a pallet truck loaded with 1000 kg, or around 8-10 people.
On our platform lifts, 70% of the total lift footprint is passenger space, while the machinery and shaft structure account for only 30%.
Fast to Install
Home lifts that do not use a screw drive are far more complicated to install and need on-site supervision almost around the clock. A screw-driven Ready-made Lift, on the other hand, can be installed within 3-7 days with no major structural modifications. That saves you a great deal of time, with no compromise in strength or durability compared with other lift systems.
2.A Smart Lift Must Be Designed to Suit the Home
A Customisable Cabin Interior
Lift design has moved on a long way. The V80 Galaxy comes with RGBW laser lighting effects and Color Lighting Control, advanced technology built into the control panel that lets you set a single colour or cycle through colours as you please. It can even be operated over Wi-Fi, with your choice of colour and brightness.
A Customisable Lift Shaft
Lift shafts come in a range of designs to suit the interior design of your home, so you can enjoy a shaft tailored to your décor. Ours can be personalised with a wide choice of control panel patterns and shaft colours, and there is an aluminium shaft option too — or, if your home already has a shaft, the lift can simply be installed straight into it.
Lift Shaft Styles
We offer several lift shaft styles. If you want a home that feels open, there is a 360-degree Temper Laminate safety glass shaft that opens up the view and lets in bright natural light. We have both glass shafts and aluminium shafts, and for homes with a shaft already prepared, the lift can be installed straight into it. Our new S80 model comes with glass on three sides as standard, so you can take in the view all around the home, while the S85 HIGHBACK model has a beautifully patterned full control panel while still keeping the side views open.
Lift Shaft Colours
Decorating a home calls for real attention to detail, right down to the colour of the lift shaft. There should be plenty of options to suit every style of home, and our lifts offer close to 300 colours, all in Premium Powder Coating with a fine powder finish, including glitter shades that give the lift a truly luxurious look.
A Customisable Lift Floor
The lift floor is an important part of the lift: it has to be hard-wearing, strong and suited to being stood on every day. We offer a range of luxurious anti-slip floors, such as environmentally friendly granite stone and anti-slip materials imported from overseas — or you can customise it and turn your own wood or tile flooring into the lift floor.
3.A Smart Lift Must Be Highly Safe
Stops the Lift When an Obstacle Is Detected
Our Scandinavian design is renowned for its safety, its design and its reliability. Our lifts feature Safety Edges on the V80 platform lift, while our cabin lifts, the V70 and the new V90 , use a Light Curtain with a fast, finely tuned response time. All of these devices meet the highest safety standard, SIL3.
An Emergency Telephone on a Direct Line, with the 2N Dial System
Our lifts use the 2N system, which checks that the telephone inside the lift is active 24 hours a day and comes with a full touch LCD screen. Part of that is making sure you have the best possible emergency telephone: 2N not only connects to all of our hotlines, it also sends a message to our servers every day to confirm that the lift is working properly around the clock.
Backup Power During an Outage (Emergency Lowering)
The most important safety feature of all: even if you are home alone or the power goes out, you can get out of the lift without help. Our lifts have a backup battery system with an emergency lowering function that kicks in during a power cut. Press any button inside the lift and it will descend, lowering itself to the lowest floor so you can step out safely.
Safe for Children with a Child Lock
A home lift is for every member of the family, so keeping children from playing with the buttons matters. The child safety lock is simple to use — just hold the unlock button for 3 seconds. Every one of our home lifts comes with a PIN code as standard: users can still get in and out of the lift, but it will not travel between floors until the correct 4-digit code is entered.
Certified by the Relevant Authorities
Safety is a key factor when looking for the right lift for your home. Cibes installs certified systems so that our passengers feel confident every time they travel. Our safety is world class: the Cibes Lift standard means Cibes lifts are certified to Safety Integrity Level 3 (SIL) , the industrial safety integrity rating, as well as by TÜV SÜD in accordance with MD 2006/42/EC
4.A Smart Home Lift Must Perform on Every Front
Energy Efficient
At Cibes Lift, reducing the impact our products and services have on the planet is one of our top priorities. Our EcoSilent system carries an Energy Label A and uses around 45% less energy than a lift without it. Estimated consumption is around 215 kWh per year, less than a modern washing machine — the answer to the demand for the quietest, most sustainable lift technology available.
A Quiet Drive
With a steeper screw thread and a Silent Box acoustic enclosure, the drive system is housed in an elegant sound-insulating metal casing designed specifically to conceal the drive unit and eliminate high-frequency noise, bringing the lift’s drive noise down to just 40 decibels for a flawless ride. The system also reduces the amount of lubricating oil needed on the lift rail by switching to rollers instead.
Easy to Maintain
Because our drive system has now reached Generation 4, maintenance is easier — just once a year. With the Vibration Proof Extra Silent system and new XL rubber rollers, you can enjoy a ride as smooth as silk and travel noise as low as 40 dB, as quiet as a library.
5.A Smart Home Lift Must Have Intelligent Technology
A lift’s intelligent systems should answer what customers actually need. At Cibes Lift, we are trusted for our ability to build integrated systems that solve lift problems, and we are committed to keeping our manufacturing and component standards high while reducing the need for maintenance through ever more advanced systems.
An IoT System for Remote Diagnostics When the Lift Faults
At Cibes Lift, we are always focused on keeping our lift systems up to date. Cibes lifts connect to the Cibes Control Center so we can monitor them and access the lift system remotely if a lift develops a fault or the user needs help. Inside the lift is cutting-edge technology: customers can buy a SIM or connect to 2.4 GH Wi-Fi so we can monitor and check the status of the lift.
A Battery Degradation Alert (Battery Guard)
Cibes lifts have a battery degradation alert. When the battery drops to 20%, the system automatically locks the lift so that one of our specialist technicians can replace it. The battery alert makes sure no damage occurs and that the lift always has enough power for you to travel in the event of a power cut.
Upgradable Software
Upgrading the lift’s software is valuable because new data and software updates can add new functionality. We can upgrade your lift’s version whenever the Cibes Control Center receives an alert that an update is due, at which point we send a specialist technician to upgrade the lift’s software to the latest release.
A Touchscreen Display and Advanced Functions
As well as looking supremely elegant, the touchscreen includes an About My Lift function that tells the owner the model and the details of their lift — the number of trips taken, the next scheduled maintenance, plus Battery Backup status, Safety Information and more.
The lift market driven by IoT has enormous potential for explosive growth. Home lift users should start looking into it and adapting before they buy, because a lift installation can last as long as 10 – 20 years. Installing a Smart Lift brings real-time data analysis, and with it energy savings, sustainability, time savings, space savings, low maintenance, cost-effectiveness and the highest levels of safety — a clear step ahead of a conventional lift.
