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Industry Background

As critical vertical transportation equipment in construction projects, elevators (or lifts) play a vital role in ensuring project progress and quality. With the advancement of IoT technology, applying it to elevator monitoring, operation, and maintenance management has become an industry trend. Through real-time monitoring and data analytics, it is possible to improve elevator safety performance, reduce accident risks, and enhance overall project efficiency.

Industry Pain Points

Frequent Safety Incidents – Improper operation, equipment faults, and other factors lead to recurring safety accidents, posing serious threats to personnel and property.
High Cost of Manual Monitoring – Traditional manual inspection methods require substantial labor, are inefficient, and cannot scale to meet the demands of large-scale projects.
Inaccurate Data – Manual monitoring is prone to errors, and data collection, transmission, and processing also suffer from deviations.
Limited Monitoring Coverage – Conventional methods struggle to achieve comprehensive, real-time, full-process monitoring of elevators.
Delayed Emergency Response – When anomalies occur, traditional monitoring approaches often fail to detect them promptly or take timely action, leading to escalation of incidents.

Solution Overview

By deploying WideIOT industrial smart gateways on-site at elevator installations, the system performs data acquisition and real-time communication, forwarding data to a monitoring platform. This enables centralized visibility and management of equipment location distribution, quantity and types, operating status, key parameters, alarm events, and maintenance work orders—ensuring that faults are promptly managed and controlled to maintain a safe and stable production environment.

System Architecture

Perception Layer – Various sensors—such as height sensors, speed sensors, load sensors, and others—are installed and connected to WideIOT industrial smart gateways to collect real-time data on critical elevator parameters.
Transmission Layer – Leveraging wireless communication technologies such as 4G/5G, the collected data is transmitted to cloud servers, providing a stable data communication network for distributed equipment.
Application Layer – The collected data is analyzed, processed, and visualized. Through real-time monitoring, alerting, and maintenance management, the system strengthens overall management capabilities.

System Functions

Data Acquisition – Continuously collects and monitors key elevator parameters in real time, including height, load capacity, voltage, current, and more.
Intelligent Analytics – Analyzes and processes collected data to generate reports and charts, providing a data-driven basis for production decisions.
Fault Alerting – When monitored data exceeds preset thresholds, the system automatically sends alarm notifications via WeChat, SMS, or email.
Maintenance Management – Records, manages, and schedules elevator maintenance work orders, improving overall maintenance efficiency and responsiveness.