AADIVANCE
ASCEND evacuation lift tower beside a hospital at night
Offshore oil platform at dusk with the ASCEND lift tower on its leg
ASCEND lift tower on the side of a data centre

The lift that never stops

ASCEND AI is a parallel evacuation lift on its own 48 V solar-battery loop, built for hospitals, offshore platforms and data centres. When the power, the generator and the network all fail, it keeps carrying people out.

Meet the lift →
Aadivance Dynamics Laboratory · BengaluruPatent pending · NBC Part 4 · OISD · NFPA
  • The grid trips the moment a fire starts.
  • Diesel backup takes up to 30 seconds.
  • Lift shafts pull smoke up like a chimney.
  • Cars stop dark between floors.
  • Patients, rig crews and data-hall staff still need to get out.
Hospital · mains failureHospital after the mains supply fails
Data hall · battery fireDark data hall aisle
Platform musterRig crew in life jackets mustering
ICU evacuationFirefighters in an evacuation bridge

Whatever fails,
ASCEND keeps moving.

A parallel lift and evacuation system with its own power, its own controls and its own way out, for hospitals, offshore platforms and data centres.

Installs in parallel.Runs on 1 kW.Moves when it matters.

The lift stands beside the building on its own 48 V DC loop. When the building's AC trips, nothing in the lift is connected to it.

Solar and a LiFePO4 battery feed a direct-drive BLDC motor on an open deck. No machine room, and a 1 kW peak draw.

An edge-AI node on every floor calls the car. Planar motors slide the doors with magnets, no centre motor or belt.

Installs in parallel.

0m²

Machine-room floor area taken from the building.

Separate DC loop

Off the main AC line

ASCEND's low-voltage DC loop is wired separately from the building supply. A trip on the main grid never reaches it.

No machine room

Space returned to the building

No central machine room and no deep pit. Developers get that floor area back as saleable FSI.

Retrofit

Fits existing towers

Capsules are designed to be added beside a building in service, alongside the lifts it already has.

NBC Part 4 · NFPA · OISD

Built to the fire codes

Designed to the National Building Code fire and life safety part, with NFPA, OISD and API norms for energy sites.

Runs on 1 kW.

1kW

Peak draw for an 800 kg payload. Legacy drives pull 7 to 10 kW.

1 kW peak

The draw of a water heater

The whole drive peaks at 1,000 W. Legacy hoists and their ventilation pull 7 to 10 kW from the high-voltage grid.

Time-shifted

Charges slowly, lifts quickly

A steady trickle charge fills a LiFePO4 buffer from the roof solar array. Each trip draws that stored energy back out in short bursts.

48 V LVDC

FluxAscend direct-drive motor

An in-house permanent-magnet motor and drive, about half the size of a conventional lift motor, moving an 800 kg payload.

~60% lower

Smaller power threshold

Low-voltage DC topology and custom magnetic flux distribution cut the power needed by nearly 60% against legacy systems.

Moves when it matters.

1/ floor

Edge-AI node on every floor. No central server to fail.

Edge AI per floor

Dispatch with zero latency

A controller on every floor calls and routes the cabin locally. Nothing waits on a central server.

Smoke control

Clears the shaft

Floor nodes start extraction fans and keep the capsule's path free of smoke while it runs.

Crowd routing

Opens the right doors

Nodes map the hazard, open smart exit doors and send people to the nearest safe landing.

Air-gapped

Works with the internet down

Each floor acts as its own command station if the rest of the building goes dark or offline.

ASCEND lift tower beside a hospital at night
Offshore oil platform at dusk with the ASCEND lift tower on its leg
ASCEND lift tower on the side of a data centre

Where ASCEND works

Hospitals

ICU and surgical floors need a way out that does not wait for the generator to start.

  • Designed to NBC Part 4 fire and life safety
  • Keeps evacuating patients through a full blackout
  • Fits beside an existing tower, with no machine room

Oil rigs & refineries

On a platform, the main supply trips the moment gas is detected. The lift is still the crew's way down.

  • Workforce evacuation and material transit for Class I, Division 1 areas
  • 48 V DC drive, kept off the high-voltage AC network
  • Designed to OISD, API and NFPA norms

Data centres

Battery rooms burn fast. Staff and spares still have to move between halls while UPS strings are isolated.

  • Runs from its own loop while the UPS is isolated
  • Edge nodes report every trip to the NOC
  • Next: FluxMotion cooling modules for AI halls

Built for the worst day

The places ASCEND is designed for. Drag to explore the scenarios we simulate in our digital twin.

Firefighters crossing the evacuation bridgeHealthcare

ICU evacuation by bridge

Patients leave the ward through a covered bridge into the ASCEND tower while the main building is on fire.

Hospital at night with the mains offHealthcare

City blackout

The mains drop and the generator is still cranking. ASCEND is already on its way to the call.

ASCEND fire exit lift on a data centreData centres

Battery-room fire

Staff and spares move between data-hall floors while a UPS string is isolated and the hall keeps running.

Rig crew in life jackets mustering at the liftEnergy

Platform muster

Gas is detected and the platform supply trips. The crew musters at the ASCEND landing and goes down in turns.

K9 patrol robot on a platform deck at duskEnergy

Zone 1 patrol

K9 robots walk the decks at night, map every flange and call the lift for the crew when a leak is found.

Tracked fire-response robotEnergy

Hazardous-area response

Tracked FireScout robots move toward the fire while the crew moves away from it.

Cutaway digital twin of a hospital floorReal estate

Every floor, mapped

The digital twin shows each floor node, each capsule trip and each person still inside the building.

K9 robot in a data hall aisleData centres

Patrol and guide out

K9 patrol robots read every rack light by day and lead people to the capsule during an alarm.

Operators in a network operations centreData centres

Seen from the NOC

Every capsule trip, floor node and door appears on the operations wall alongside power and cooling.

Images are renders from Aadivance's simulation films, not photographs of installed sites.

One drivetrain, three platforms

The same 48 V direct-drive motor and edge-AI controls, sized for hospitals, hazardous sites and the air.

ASCEND Capsule

Parallel, grid-independent lift

Lab-tested prototype

ASCEND Twin

Workforce evacuation & material transit

Pilot · year 1

FluxMotion Hoist

Modular aerial logistics hoist

In development
RoleEvacuation & daily liftEvacuation & transitHeavy-lift hoisting
Payload800 kg800 kgUp to 1,000 kg
Peak draw1 kW1 kWTo be announced
Power bus48 V LVDC48 V LVDC48 V LVDC direct drive
Rated speed0.4 m/sSite specificTo be announced
Energy storeLiFePO4 + solarLiFePO4 + solarHost aircraft
EnvironmentHospitals, high-rise, mallsRigs, refineries, Class I Div 1Heavy-lift drones, VTOLs
Flagship platform
ASCEND Capsule tower at night

ASCEND Capsule

A lift that carries 800 kg on the power of a water heater, keeps its own energy, and makes its own decisions on every floor.

The system, in brief

ASCEND Capsule runs on a 48 V DC loop fed by a roof solar array and a LiFePO4 battery, separate from the building's AC supply. The FluxAscend motor is direct drive, so there is no gearbox and no machine room. Doors run on a planar magnetic drive with no motor at the centre. A trip uses about 17 Wh, so a full charge covers more than 60 trips with the grid off. Edge-AI nodes on each floor dispatch the car, run smoke extraction and route people, with no central server to fail.

Grid-independent

Own DC loop. Keeps running through blackouts and fires.

Efficient

1 kW peak draw. About 17 Wh per trip.

Compact

No machine room. Motor about half the size of a conventional one.

Autonomous

Air-gapped edge-AI node on every floor.

Quiet doors

Planar magnetic door drive with magnets on the panels.

Compliant

Designed to NBC Part 4 fire and life safety.

ASCEND tower beside a hospital Evacuation bridge into the tower Digital twin cutaway Hospital during a blackout

The tower

A glazed steel tower beside the building, with its own solar roof and battery, connected to each floor by a landing door.

Payload
800 kg
Peak draw
1 kW
Power bus
48 V DC
Rated speed
0.4 m/s
Energy / trip
≈17 Wh
Trips per charge
60+
Standard
NBC Pt 4
See the lift anatomy ↗ Plan a pilot →

Two motors, no gearbox

Everything that moves in ASCEND is driven by magnets: a compact BLDC motor turns the sheave, and a planar motor slides the doors. Drag a view to turn it.

FluxAscend BLDC motor

A brushless DC motor built in house. Permanent magnets on the rotor, coils on the stator, switched electronically from the 48 V bus. It drives the traction sheave directly and is about half the size of a conventional lift motor.

Type
BLDC, direct drive
Supply
48 V DC
Size
≈ ½ conventional
Gearbox
None
Peak draw
1 kW
Payload
800 kg

Planar door motor

A stationary array of coils runs above the opening. Each door panel carries a grid of magnets. Only the coils over the magnets switch on, in a travelling wave, so the panels glide open with no motor, belt or linkage in the centre.

Type
Planar linear
Coils
Stationary array
Magnets
On each panel
Centre motor
None
Belts, chains
None
Supply
48 V DC
Digital twin of a hospital floor with ASCEND tower

A command station on every floor

  1. Decentralised controlBuilding management systems fail when the central server or the network does. ASCEND has no single point to lose.
  2. A node per floorEach floor or wing gets its own SoC controller, running in parallel with the building's systems.
  3. Local actionWhen the building goes dark, each node maps hazards, runs ventilation, opens exit doors and calls the capsule on its own.

Leadership

D
Dileep
Founder & CEO, Chief Architect
HK
Hithesh Karanth
JU
Jayaram Udupa
Advisor, aviation & defence electronics

From lab to skyline

Today

Lab-tested prototype

Powertrain built and validated in house. Moves 800 kg on a 1,000 W draw. 15+ patents in the pipeline.

+12 months

First live pilot

Safety and thermal certification for the enclosures, and a high-traffic pilot in a Bengaluru building.

+2 years

Commercial scale

Contracts with multi-specialty hospital networks and PSU partners. ASCEND variants in production.

+5 years

IP licensing

FluxMotion modules for data-centre cooling and heavy-lift hoists for drones and VTOLs.

Join the lab.
Build what keeps running.

We are a small team of power-electronics, magnetics and embedded engineers in Bengaluru. If you want to work on motors, drives and edge AI that ship into real buildings, write to us.

Get in touch →

Plan a pilot with us.

Tell us about the building. We will size a capsule, a solar array and a battery for it.

dileepsetty@aadivancedynamics.com
Phone
+91 98861 81380
Lab
#1133/B, 3rd floor, 30 Feet Service Road, Hampinagar, Vijayanagar, Bengaluru 560040
Status
Lab-tested prototype. Next: a live pilot in a Bengaluru building.