Aiphone ACS-ELV - AC Series Elevator Starter Kit

The ACS-ELV kit controls a single elevator cab for up to eight floors as shipped. Each floor uses one of the eight solid state dry contact relays on the onboard AC-IOE board, so eight floors is the limit before you add hardware.

Yes. Adding seven AC-IOE expansion boards takes it to two cabs and up to 64 floors. Expansion goes in blocks of eight floors, one AC-IOE per block, so plan the board count by dividing your floor count by eight. The AC-IOE boards are separate items and are not part of the ACS-ELV kit.

It runs on PoE per IEEE 802.3af, so a single Cat cable from a PoE switch or injector feeds it. It also supplies 12V DC at 500mA for lock power and 12V DC at 300mA for option power, and the dry contact relays are rated 24V DC, 1A. Check that your elevator controller inputs fall inside that 24V DC / 1A contact rating before wiring direct; anything heavier needs an interposing relay.

Reader inputs are Wiegand, and there are two of them, which covers a reader in each of two cabs or an in and out arrangement. Any credential reader with a standard Wiegand output interface will land on those inputs.

Yes, it carries UL 294 and ULC S319-05 listing, which is the access control unit standard specifiers usually call out on institutional and multi-family projects. It is also stated as NDAA and TAA compliant, which matters on government and federally funded work.

No. The Aiphone ACS-ELV is an elevator starter kit that provides elevator access control to a single cab for up to eight floors, expandable to two cabs and up to 64 floors in intervals of eight with seven AC-IOE expansion boards, using eight solid state dry contact relays and inputs per AC-IOE to switch individual floor buttons. The Codelocks A3 is a dual standalone door controller with RFID in a black finish, built to control doors rather than elevator cab floor selection. For a cab call panel, the ACS-ELV is the part that matches the application.

Up to 100,000 user credentials and 50,000 events, with events rolling off first in, first out. For a multi-family or mixed-use tower that is enough headroom to hold every tenant credential locally without depending on a server for a floor call decision.

It is built for elevator cab and floor control, not general door control. For standalone entry doors with RFID credentials, a door controller such as the Codelocks A3 Dual Standalone Door Controller is the different animal you want. Use the ACS-ELV where the relays are driving elevator floor buttons.

Not for that job. The ACS-ELV is powered over PoE (IEEE 802.3af) and runs on IPv4, IPv6, TCP, UDP and HTTPS with Wiegand reader inputs, so it expects a network and separate readers. A standalone door controller with integrated RFID, such as the Codelocks A3 dual standalone door controller, is aimed at openings run without a network head end. Choose the ACS-ELV when you need networked elevator floor control with credential and event storage on board.

The Aiphone ACS-ELV is listed to UL 294/ULC S319-05 and is stated as NDAA and TAA compliant, which is typically what an institutional or federal specification calls for on access control equipment. It stores up to 100,000 user credentials and 50,000 events first in, first out, and measures 3-1/2 inch H x 10 inch W x 2-3/16 inch D for enclosure planning. The Codelocks A3 dual standalone door controller is a door-level product in the A3 Door Controllers series and is selected on a different basis.

Yes. Supported protocols are IPv4, IPv6, TCP, UDP and HTTPS, so it drops onto either addressing scheme and its management traffic runs over HTTPS. That usually satisfies an IT department that wants encrypted management on a building network.