ELEVATOR WITH REFUGE WEAK PREFERENTIAL RESCUE FUNCTION

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve a problem of being difficult to wholly guide the refuge weak of staying in a building for refuge by refuge operation of an elevator when a fire occurs.SOLUTION: According to one embodiment, an elevator with the refuge weak preferential rescue function is provided including cars 15-18, operation control parts 19-22, two cameras 25 arranged between boarding-alighting ports 23 and 24 of the respective floors and a floor zone B, an image processing part 26 for extracting the refuge weak and detecting their entering-retreating directions with every story floor, a database 27 for holding in-house person number information of the refuge weak detected on an entrance into the floor zone B with every story floor, an in-house person number processing part 28 for adding and reducing the in-house person number information by the entering-retreating directions, a fire detecting part 29 for outputting a fire occurrence floor information, and a refuge operation control part 30 for determining priority of the respective story floors by the in-house person number information and the fire occurrence floor information with every story floor by performing the refuge operation. The refuge operation control part 30 makes operation control parts 19-22 to perform reciprocating operation between a rescue floor and a refuge floor by determining the rescue floor by the priority.