A staircase with a net and a double bottom

摘要

Climbing steps is good for your health. But it's frustrating when you have to do it. After a hard day's work, for example, it's hard to find anything good about a broken escalator. You really only have one thing on your mind: Getting home as quickly and comfortably as possible. ThyssenKrupp, one of the leading manufacturers of escalators, also dislikes standing still. Literally: The new generation of "moving staircases," an invention created over 100 years ago, is intelligent and communicative. When a system is equipped with ThyssenKrupp's patented e-escalator system, it sends messages via the Internet, Intranet or SMS to the appropriate monitoring center or service team. And the system not only delivers a message to indicate if the escalator is not working, but also exactly where the problem lies: For instance that something isn't working on the top left of the handrail, the declining steps are having problems in the middle or the so-called comb plate on the bottom left needs to be repaired.