Abstract: An elevator (9) includes remote elevator monitoring equipment (10) connected by a communication linkage (12) to a central elevator monitoring and control station (11). Main, drive, and door controllers (16-18) are interconnected (19-21) with the monitor lines. Power-on-reset (POR) of controllers may be caused internally or by remotely-operable power relays (23-25) which interrupt power to the controllers. Maintenance personnel at the remote station (11) may order a POR through the communication linkage. In another embodiment, the remote elevator monitor (10) determines presence of a malfunction which a POR may cure and causes a POR internally or by a power relay. In another embodiment, the controller (16a) includes, in its program routines, elevator diagnostics (50) which can recognize an elevator malfunction which a POR may cure, and either cause the relay to interrupt power for an interval or cause an internal POR.

Abstract: A remote elevator monitoring system includes a master associated with a building and a local connected to the master. The local includes an electronic processor which executes instructions for determining whether the master has transmitted a signal packet to the local within a time period selectable at will by an operator at the local. The time period is, for example, a period selected within a range of 0-255 days. Optionally, for example, the master is programmed to transmit a signal packet to the local at a selected time on the last day of the selected time period.