Patent ID: 7669695

Claim:
A fire evacuation operation system for group-controlled elevators, in which floors to be served are divided into multiple service zones, multiple elevators which serve each of the service zones from an entrance floor are provided, the system comprising: an evacuation plan preparation unit configured to cause each of the elevators to stop at a nearest floor thereof when a fire detector installed on each floor of a building detects that a fire had broken out; an evacuation operation propriety judging unit, including a processor, configured to judge, in the event of a fire, an evacuation operation is improper for an elevator which serves a zone including a floor on which the fire broke out and causes the elevator to stop at a nearest floor thereof and then to suspend an operation thereof, and configured to judge that an evacuation operation is possible for an elevator which serves a zone not including the floor on which the fire broke out; a rescue floor setting unit configured to set a rescue floor, according to the floor on which the fire broke out, for the elevator for which the evacuation operation propriety judging unit has judged that an evacuation operation is possible; and an evacuation operation instruction unit configured to cause the elevator to reciprocate between the entrance floor, which becomes the evacuation floor, and the rescue floor.