Anigmo Touchless Lift buttons are designed as a direct replacement for mechanical buttons. They look and feel like regular mechanical Lift buttons. Because they implement the same proprietary sensing technology as the rest of Anigmo touchless products, they need no openings or lenses to operate. In addition, the front plate is made from solid stainless steel, making the buttons robust and resistant to wear and tear. This also enables adding clearly visible symbols to the front of the button, either engraved or backlit.

The detection range of Anigmo Touchless Lift Buttons is 5-30mm (adjustable).

Anigmo Touchless Lift buttons use patent-pending capacitive sensing technology and are completely unaffected by ambient light or reflective surfaces, which can falsely trigger optical (IR) sensors. They are also unaffected by the object color, which gives inconsistent triggering with IR (such as black gloves).

All Anigmo touchless sensors, including the one implemented in Anigmo Touchless Lift buttons, are tuned to human body density. This eliminates false triggers by insects, flying debris, or other objects that may land near or on the button.

Mechanical backup/safety

In addition to touchless operation, Anigmo Touchless Lift buttons offer a fallback to mechanical operation if needed. By disabling the electronics inside of the button, it can operate as a regular mechanical button. It is important to emphasize that this is not an emulation of mechanical operation by "mimicking" keypresses via the internal relay. When in mechanical mode, the user actually presses the mechanical push button. The signal wires of the button are directly connected to a mechanical button inside. In this mode, there is no electrical or mechanical difference between an Anigmo Touchless button and a mechanical button; the electronic is completely disabled and inactive.

In the case of multiple Anigmo Touchless Lift buttons with mechanical backups, they can all be deactivated with a single operation. No need for complex wiring. In case of emergency (such as fire or dense smoke), a single switch turns all touchless buttons into standard, mechanical buttons.

In case of a power failure, the button automatically falls back to mechanical operation.

Customization

All Anigmo Touchless Lift buttons feature LED backlighting in various standard colors. Some versions can include backlit or engraved symbols such as numbers, letters, and glyphs to indicate button function. At the moment, we offer several buttons with different dimensions. More button sizes and shapes will be added in the future.

Dual-color option

Anigmo touchless Lift buttons come in a version with a dual-color LED backlight. The primary color is active while the power is applied. The color changes to the secondary color when the button is activated (a finger is detected). The change between the primary and secondary LED colors can also be made via a dedicated LED input, giving the lift control electronics control over the LED color. Both primary and secondary LED backlighting colors can be ordered in various standard LED colors.

Retrofitting

Dimensions of Anigmo Touchless Lift buttons (current and in the future) are chosen to fit into an existing installation. They are intended to replace specific mechanical buttons with touchless alternatives while preserving all advantages of mechanical lift buttons (looks, durability, anti-vandalism, mechanical operation, user familiarity, etc).

Future-proof your Lifts

The recent COVID-19 outbreak highlighted the need for hygiene and exposed commonly touched public surfaces (such as Lift buttons) as a vector for disease spread. Many diseases have been transmitted in the past this way, from the common cold to the flu. While these diseases are not as deadly, they sure are annoying. A simple replacement of lift buttons with touchless models can limit the spread of any disease, now and in the future. Even if some people will continue to touch lift buttons, others will have a simple option not to. The future is touchless.

Advantages over competing technologies

Buttons can be replaced by other motion-sensing technologies, such as infrared (IR) sensors or microwave sensors. The range of IR sensors depends on the producers and ambient light, which makes it hard for the user to determine the range and does not allow consistency in operation. It can be affected by gloves, reflective surfaces, or ambient light. Some lift manufacturers have already implemented proximity sensors based on capacitance technology, but they have an impractically short range or quite long reaction times, compared to Anigmo Touchless Lift buttons. Using mobile apps to operate an lift is slow and impractical. It is impossible to do it when your hands are full. Voice activation controls are suitable for home automation, but not for public spaces.

Another important advantage of sensors, used in Anigmo touchless Lift buttons, is an extremely fast response (typically less than 100ms). Due to this, the button typically triggers before the user touches the surface of the button, indicating to the user that the button is touchless. Even slightly slower detection diminishes this important feature, as most users will touch and press the button before noticing its touchless features.

Other Touchless lift button solutions on the market either use IR detection (with significant disadvantages compared to capacitive sensing) or use capacitive sensing with much longer reaction times (resulting in disadvantages mentioned above). This places the Anigmo Touchless Lift buttons in a unique position, implementing the advantages of both technologies.