Patent ID: 8839914

Claim:
An elevator system controlling an elevator so as to perform an evacuation operation for evacuating a user in case of a fire, said elevator system comprising: an evacuation-call response-order setting section for: setting, based on fire occurrence information including a site of occurrence of the fire, a priority order of a response to an evacuation special call that is a special hall call for the evacuation operation registered by the user; and selecting, based on said priority order, a call responding floor to be responded to from registration floors in which said evacuation special call is registered; and an evacuation operation running section for controlling an operation of the elevator so as to direct the elevator to said call responding floor selected by said evacuation-call response-order setting section, wherein in a case that said evacuation special call given a higher priority than said evacuation special call registered in said selected call responding floor is newly registered before said elevator arrives at said call responding floor, said evacuation-call response-order setting section changes said call responding floor to a floor in which said evacuation special call is newly registered.