4G/5G Industrial Routers Fortifying Smart Elevator Monitoring and Safety

In modern urban building systems, elevators, as a core component, are directly impacting public life, property safety, and the safe operation of transportation. Industrial routers, as core communication hubs, are injecting strong momentum into smart elevator monitoring and safety solutions.

Breakthrough 1: Traditional Monitoring Has Lag

Pain Point

In an elevator entrapment incident in a high-rise residential building, the monitoring screen transmission delay reached 8 minutes. This is a typical dilemma of traditional reliance on wired networks or civil routers: insufficient bandwidth and unstable signals cause data "interruption".

Solution

• The delay of monitoring screens in the car is significantly reduced, with instant recognition of abnormal behaviors (such as prying doors, overloading);

• Operating parameters (traction machine temperature, wire rope tension) are synchronized to the cloud, triggering an alarm immediately when exceeding thresholds;

• Emergency call signals cover all dead angles, with significantly improved voice clarity during entrapment, solving the "incomprehensible" problem of traditional intercoms.

Breakthrough 2: Low Elevator Maintenance Efficiency

Pain Point

Elevator maintenance personnel spend most of their time traveling to and from the site, but only a small amount of time solving problems, which makes elevator maintenance efficiency extremely low.

Solution

• Engineers can read fault codes and adjust door machine parameters in the office, with most minor faults repairable without on-site visits.

• Property managers can remotely access the elevator system through mobile devices to perform troubleshooting and maintenance.

• Industrial routers can send timely alarm information when an elevator malfunctions, ensuring a quick response.

Breakthrough 3: Insufficient System Security

Pain Point

Monitoring data of elevators in a residential community was once illegally accessed, and operating parameters were tampered with. And emergency signal transmission was unencrypted, causing trapped passengers' help messages to be intercepted and delaying rescue. Vulnerabilities in traditional systems regarding data transmission and access control directly amplify security risks.

Solution

• Data encryption protection: Adopting industry-grade encryption algorithms, all data, including elevator monitoring screens and operating parameters, is encrypted throughout transmission. Even if intercepted, they cannot be decrypted, fundamentally eliminating the risk of data leakage or tampering.

• VPN dedicated tunnel: Built-in VPN functionality establishes an independent encrypted channel between elevators and the management platform. Only authorized devices can access through verification, completely blocking access attempts from illegal terminals and ensuring the security of remote operation and maintenance.

• Industrial-grade firewall: Integrating an intelligent firewall module that can automatically identify and filter abnormal traffic (such as malicious probes and illegal login requests). It also presents elevator-specific protection rules to accurately block attack behaviors targeting control systems.

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Application Cases

• Shopping Mall: After deployment on elevators in a shopping mall, monitoring delay was reduced to seconds, with zero delayed responses to entrapment incidents; remote repair rates rose to 75%, significantly cutting maintenance costs and eliminating annual data security incidents.

• Elevator Manufacturer: After pre-installing routers in new models, a manufacturer used anonymous operation data to optimize core component design, reducing failure rates; remote firmware upgrades shortened security patch deployment, significantly boosting customer satisfaction

• Residential Community: Many elevators in an older residential complex were experiencing frequent parameter fluctuations due to aging equipment. After deployment, signal stability was significantly improved, parameter upload success rates increased, and minor faults could be remotely repaired in a short time.

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