I have an elevator in my 11 story building that I would like to track the patterns of, and monitor/display the current floor of. I would like to do this with a single distance sensor in the shaft powered by POE, sending its info to be displayed or pulled from a website. Time between elevator movemen…

Elevator Monitor - Best Distance Measurement (~30m)

johnwasser September 9, 2012, 6:02pm 2

Is there a counterweight? If so you might be able to track the motion of the counterweight pulley.

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