embodiments is shown as shown in fig2 an elevator controller 202 1 may be used to control or adjust one or more operations associated with an elevator in some embodiments the controller 202 1 may include one or more components or devices described in connection with the system 100 of fig1 a subset of controls that may be provided by the controller 202 1 are shown in block 204 for example the subset of controls 204 may include one or more of a velocity v for an elevator car 202 2 a direction the elevator car 202 2 is to travel in e g up or down a hoist way 202 3 door controls e g door speed when opening or closing and specification of a landing or floor that the elevator car 202 2 should go to other controls may be included such as elevator car 202 2 acceleration an ambient temperature for the elevator car 202 2 volume of sounds or music played in the elevator car 202 2 etc the controls or commands provided by the controller 202 1 to an elevator or elevator car 202 2 may be a function of one or more inputs in some embodiments the one or more inputs may be based on external data as an example the external data may include data derived from or obtained from one or more utilities 206 1 the utilities 206 1 may include one or more power utilities the data obtained from the utilities 206 1 may.