New York spent a cumulative 16.6 years waiting for elevators , compared to 5.9 years actually riding in them .

“ Another problem is that once the elevator has stopped working , you have to wait for facilities management or a client to pick up the phone and say their elevator needs repairs ,” Schierenbeck adds . “ That ’ s one of the reasons for creating MAX , to transfer the data out of the elevator , sending it to the cloud , using the intelligence to process the data .”

MAX is a real-time , cloudbased predictive maintenance platform . Leveraging the power

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