Patent ID: 8800722

Claim:
An elevator controller comprising: an operation mode controller which, upon detection of a disaster by a disaster detection device, switches an operation mode of an elevator from a normal operation mode to an emergency operation mode which involves evacuating a user in a car of the elevator by stopping the car at the nearest emergency landing entrance floor other than service floors of the normal operation mode and, upon reset of the disaster detection device, returns the operation mode to the normal operation mode; a door open/close controller which causes the elevator to open the elevator door at the nearest emergency landing entrance floor for a given time when the operation mode controller has returned the operation mode from the emergency operation mode to the normal operation mode; and an informing controller which causes an informing device, which is provided in a hall of an emergency landing entrance floor for which-the door open/close controller causes the door to be opened for a given time or provided in the car, to provide information to the effect that the elevator can be used when the operation mode controller has returned the operation mode from the emergency operation mode to the normal operation mode.