Lift Monitoring

The vast majority of lift faults could have been avoided by early maintenance intervention, as prior to any lift going out of service, a sequence of events would have occurred in the preceding days and weeks, such as variations to lock and door movements, travel time between floors and safety circuit issues. Although these changes in infrastructure are minimal and often not obvious or visible, the impacts can be substantial.

Constant monitoring of a lift in real-time allows DBR to define individual lift running signatures. Minor variations are detected in the normal running signature, and alerts and alarms are raised requesting containment/corrective action before the lift fails. All monitoring data is available on any web device, allowing asset service partners visibility of any defects prior to attending the site.

Through the Transport Research and Innovation Grants (TRIG), dbr have been awarded funding to develop our innovative lift monitoring technology.

The programme helps to fund innovative research projects and develop new technologies to improve the UK’s transport systems.

This project provides the opportunity to demonstrate how a different monitoring approach can be more effective, less disruptive and provide a quicker route to maintain asset availability. Our innovation moves from individual asset data collection mechanisms to a unified monitoring system capable of detecting minor changes. Then analysing running signature plus real time visualisation whilst performing maintenance activities onsite, delivers innovation for a proactive maintenance methodology.

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@Connected Places Catapult @Department for Transport