A conveyor arrangement, a conveyor system and a method for determining a load estimate in a people conveyor arrangement, such as an escalator arrangement or horizontal or inclined autowalk arrangement include using a power model of the people conveyor arrangement, which power model includes e.g. motor model components and/or people conveyor model components, having at least a friction monitoring mode, and determining in the friction monitoring mode a friction estimate of the conveyor arrangement based at least in part on the measured or determined motor power, the power model of the people conveyor arrangement, and a speed of the step or pallet chain and/or a speed of the handrail.

A method for controlling a passenger conveyor, which passenger conveyor includes an endless band of conveying elements, the endless band including an inclined conveying section; a drive shaft arranged to drive the endless band of conveying elements when rotated; a motor for rotating the drive shaft; a first sensing arrangement for sensing a rotation speed of the motor; a brake activatable to act directly on the drive shaft or an element fixedly connected to it for stopping rotation of the drive shaft; and a control system. The method includes rotating the drive shaft with the motor; and sensing rotation speed of the motor with the first sensing arrangement. The passenger conveyor includes a second sensing arrangement for sensing rotation speed of the drive shaft, and the method includes sensing rotation speed of the drive shaft with the second sensing arrangement; detecting deviation between the rotation speed of the motor and the rotation speed of the drive shaft or a multifold thereof; and activating the brake for stopping rotation of the drive shaft if deviation, in particular deviation meeting predefined criteria, is detected between the rotation speed of the motor and the rotation speed of the drive shaft or a multifold thereof, wherein said multifold equals to the rotation speed of the drive shaft multiplied with a preset factor n, wherein n preferably equals to transmission ratio between the drive shaft and the motor. A passenger conveyor implementing the method is also disclosed.

A conveyor arrangement, a conveyor system and a method for determining a load estimate in a people conveyor arrangement, such as an escalator arrangement or horizontal or inclined autowalk arrangement include using a power model of the people conveyor arrangement, which power model includes e.g. motor model components and/or people conveyor model components, having at least a friction monitoring mode, and determining in the friction monitoring mode a friction estimate of the conveyor arrangement based at least in part on the measured or determined motor power, the power model of the people conveyor arrangement, and a speed of the step or pallet chain and/or a speed of the handrail.

Disclosed is an escalator system that has: an escalator step; and load sensors secured to the escalator step, wherein the load sensors are configured to: sense an escalator loading; and transfer, to an escalator controller, sensor data indicative of the escalator loading.

A people conveyor (2), which is configured for conveying passengers by at least one conveyance band (8) travelling along a closed loop, comprises at least one handrail element (6) which is configured for moving parallel to the at least one conveyance band (8) along a travel path forming a closed loop; and at least one force sensor (18a, 18b), which is configured for detecting a force (F.sub.S1, F.sub.S2) exerted by the at least one handrail element (6) in a direction transverse to the direction of movement of the at least one handrail element (6) and for providing a corresponding force signal.

Provided is a man conveyor apparatus (1), including: steps (17) connected in an endless manner; two or more drive motors (4a and 4b), each being configured to circulate the steps (17); a load detection device (10) configured to detect a load of the drive motors (4a and 4b); and a controller (11) configured to control an operation and stop of each of the drive motors (4a and 4b), wherein the controller (11) increases or decreases the number of the drive motors to be driven in accordance with a value of the load detected by the load detection device (10) and changes a drive motor to be driven as a main motor each time the number of drive motors to be driven is decreased.

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.

A computer-implemented method includes executing a people transit system associated user application, the people transit associated user application enabling a use of multiple operation modes; obtaining a trigger event associated with the people transit system; obtaining profile information associated with a user using the people transit system associated user application; and allowing the use of a specific application mode among multiple application modes based on the trigger event and the profile information.

Commissioning of a transportation infrastructure peripheral device in a transportation infrastructure control network is disclosed. In the arrangement a peripheral device is attached to a transportation infrastructure control network through a network element or directly to a controller. When the connection has been made, a process for identifying and granting appropriate access rights is initiated. As a result, common network technologies can be used for transmitting information that is critical for elevator operation.

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 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 an operating mode of the escalator in response to at least the acceleration data; and an application for a computing device, the application being configured to display weather data simultaneously with the operating mode of the escalator on a display device of the computing device.