Elevator monitoring system and method

The invention discloses an elevator monitoring system and method. The elevator monitoring system comprises a monitoring system body, an alarming mainframe, a main controller, a remote monitoring terminal and a drive circuit. The monitoring system body is provided with a server, a main monitor, a matrix switching module, the alarming mainframe, a decoder, an intelligent image collector, the main controller, a data collection terminal, a communication module and the remote monitoring terminal. The alarming mainframe is provided with a fault alarming module, an early warning module, an overload alarming circuit and a sound collection module. The main controller is provided with an oscillation clock, a resetting circuit, a driving circuit and a protection circuit. The remote monitoring terminal is provided with GPRS module, an Ethernet interface, an RS232 interface, an RS484 interface, a CAN interface and a parallel input interface. The state of an elevator can be monitored automatically, and when a fault occurs