Lift Motor Monitoring
It is essential to fix a lift motor monitoring system for every elevator in a building.
There are a few types of maintenance and monitoring available in the market today.
Lift maintenance using remote system
When an elevator facing malfunction and the monitoring system detects a problem, it correctly diagnoses the cause and whereabout, then automatically makes a service call to the elevator maintenance company.
The system also allows predictive maintenance schedules depending on diagnosing data collected from the elevator, to reduce possible downtime and numbers of service call.
The system can be provided by elevator service company without extra charge, depends on the maintenance contract.
However, the building owners still need to pay for the broadband network, to keep the system connected to the elevator service company.
Monitoring System for individual buildings
The lift monitoring system acts as a primary panel usually installed in building’s management office. It is a computer software which allows building owners to monitor elevator and escalator systems in one or several locations.
The system usually equipped with various options for managing the elevator systems, such as :
- Operation mode switching (Parking, independent service etc.)
- Access Control (Change floor locking status)
- Up/down peak mode scheduling
- Traffic history playback
- Fault logging
- Generate reports
Lift motor monitoring system with remote access and alert
An elevator service companies visit their customer for regular maintenance and emergency malfunction repair visit.
For a emergency malfunction visit, a technician may have to find the faulty area and diagnose it.
A maintenance technician needs to travel from a distance to the customers place, needs to communicate with their engineers for more guidance.
So the time and cost that a technician spent will then charged to their customer at a higher rates.
A lift motor can cost a lot if not maintain properly.
A motor monitoring device will be connected to identify a few parameters such as sound, heat, power and etc.
Communication device with mobile broadband enables the motor monitoring device to communicate and sent data to a cloud to a processing software.
Processing server will collect this details and alert the customers the stress level of the motor thus suggest if an immediate attention required.
