" I am ahead of my time here " ...yep that's the problem.
" the elevator will fall to the bottom floor " ...i certainly hope not.
If by what you mean is that the elevators have emergency battery lowering units then yes , if properly maintained then In a power outage they should lower ( not fall ..big difference ) to the ground floor and open the doors. Do you have someone checking the operation of the lowering units monthly ? Do you understand that elevators can have faults that will cause passengers to be trapped other than power outage .
The reason people " seemed to get angry at you " was nothing to do with you choosing to work with an alarm company and everything to do with you ignoring the advice of experts. There is a reason the alarm companies don't want to get involved with elevator telephones . Its called liability. I have a feeling you may discover this the hard way .
It's because 99.9% of Telguard products are for an alarm system and the elevator phone communicator is probably a modified alarm communicator. So they are not setup to work with the elevator maintenance people.
I know that the newer technology might seem scary to some, however, I assure you it's not evil.
AC power was once considered evil from the safe DC power standard. Edison himself use to travel around killing animals by electrocuting them with the evil "AC power" This is true and most people don't know about it.
Today the power grid is AC.
The wireless elevator phone is just as safe is not safer in my opinion. A car could crash into the telephone pole and no matter how many backup phone lines you have, they all will go out. Someone could accidentally cut a phone line while digging a trench, etc...
The wireless communicator is immune to all those problems.
I know if I was trying to rob a building, I would be must more scared of their alarm system being on a wireless communicator. I could not simply cut the lines but rather had to be a concern with stopping an invisible radio wave. The technology to do this is usually something reserved for a SWAT team or military.
In my company, I was told by the phone guys not to go with a CLEC. I went with a CLEC and save over $100,000 a year. I was told to keep the POTS for the fax lines, I got a phone system that could use the PRI lines to make analog calls with a special upgrade to the phone system. Saved a ton of money there. Keep in mind this was in the late 90's or early 2000. So it was not common( and we used a lot of faxes back then).
There is a product that will save me money on phone lines and appears to be a safer option. Why not give it a try. Probably most of the tech you are using today was considered to be some crazy idea at some point in time.
I am sure many other people have done the same thing hence why they make the product in the first place. People are demanding this types of products.
I will let you guys know how it turns out.
