Patent ID: 7350626

Claim:
A method of providing potentially corrective action to an elevator system in response to elevator operation diagnostics sensing a malfunction, said elevator system having at least one controller, said method comprising: causing a power-on-reset (POR) of one or more controllers in said elevator system by a process, independent of human intervention at the site of the elevator system, of operating, said process comprising one or more of (a) having on-site elevator monitoring equipment cause said POR when said monitoring equipment senses an elevator malfunction for which a POR may cure the elevator malfunction or provide information which may aid in determining the cause of the malfunction, or (b) providing, in program routines of said at least one controller, elevator diagnostics which cause said POR in response to recognition of an elevator malfunction for which a POR may cure the elevator malfunction or provide information which may aid in determining the cause of he malfunction.