Patent attributes
A monitoring system for an escalator including: a local gateway device; an analytic engine in communication with the local gateway device through a cloud computing network; a passenger detection engine in communication with the analytic engine through a cloud computing network, the passenger detection engine being configured to determine passenger data of the escalator; and a sensing apparatus in wireless communication with the local gateway device through a short-range wireless protocol, the sensing apparatus including: an inertial measurement unit sensor configured to detect acceleration data of the escalator, wherein at least one of the sensing apparatus, the local gateway device, and the analytic engine is configured to determine a condition based monitoring (CBM) health Score of the escalator in response to at least the acceleration data, wherein the analytic engine is configured to adjust the CBM health score in response to at least the passenger data.