As a global leader in the elevator and escalator industry, our customer provides elevators, escalators and automatic building doors.
The company also offers solutions for maintenance and modernization to add value to buildings throughout their life cycle.
Problem
Solution
To ensure the automated sliding doors reach an operational time of over 98%, the movement of the doors is monitored with vibration sensors. Sensor information is sent to the cloud via a LTE-M Gateway, and in the cloud an algorithm calculates the moment the door will possibly fail. Our customer is now able to schedule maintenance well in advance and prevent unplanned downtime. This helps to guarantee a safe and unobstructed movement of people.
Through real-time monitoring of the performance of their automatic doors, our client was able to
- Detect failures before they occur hence reducing unplanned downtime
- Improve maintenance planning at their customers
- Optimize the maintenance routes to deliver maintenance to their customers
- Serve more customers with the same amount of technical service mechanics
Future potential
With a fully sensorfied door mechanism, not only door failure can be predicted. The sensor data can also be utilized to filter out existing weak parts in the door’s mechanism design.
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