Patent ID: 7942246

Claim:
Elevator system, which comprises control appliances of the elevator system fitted to communicate between themselves, and which elevator system comprises a control arrangement for placing at least one control appliance of the elevator system into a standby mode or for terminating a standby mode, wherein the aforementioned control arrangement is fitted to set the standby mode on the basis of at least one activation signal, and in that the control arrangement is fitted to send a control signal of the standby mode to at least one control appliance of the elevator system, which control appliance of the elevator system comprises a first and a second power supply circuit, to which second power supply circuit a controllable switch is connected such that power supply from the output of the second power supply circuit can be either allowed or prevented with the control of the switch, and to which first power supply circuit a controller is connected, which controller comprises an input for the control signal of the standby mode, and in that the aforementioned controller is fitted to control the aforementioned switch on the basis of the control signal of the standby mode.