Passenger-transporting system with a device for determining the operating state

A method for measuring speed and sensing the direction of travel or sensing the direction of rotation for a passenger-transporting system, the method comprising:

• providing a passenger-transporting system comprising
• an arrangement of auxiliary elements, and
• at least one sensing device,
• wherein the arrangement of the auxiliary elements rotates about an axis of rotation in accordance with a movement of at least one transporting element of the passenger-transporting system,
• wherein the arrangement of the auxiliary elements and the at least one sensing device are positioned such that all the auxiliary elements are sensed by a same sensing device of the at least one sensing device and are identified in a same signal curve of the same sensing device of the at least one sensing device, and wherein the at least one sensing device senses whether or not one of the auxiliary elements is currently located at a sensing location,
• wherein at least one auxiliary element is configured in a manner corresponding to a first configuration type and at least one second auxiliary element is configured in a manner corresponding to a second configuration type,
• wherein the at least one sensing device senses, at least when the arrangement of the auxiliary elements is rotated, whether one of the auxiliary elements located at the sensing location is of the first configuration type or the second configuration type, and wherein, when the arrangement of the auxiliary elements is rotated, the at least one sensing device assigns at least one auxiliary element of the first configuration type and at least one auxiliary element of the second configuration type to one another such that the direction of rotation of the arrangement is determined by sensing an order of the auxiliary elements of the first configuration type and of the second configuration type;
• sensing whether or not one of the auxiliary elements is currently located at the sensing location,
• sensing whether one of the auxiliary elements currently located at the sensing location is of a first configuration type or of a second configuration type,
• assigning at least one auxiliary element of the first configuration type and at least one auxiliary element of the second configuration type to one another when the arrangement of the auxiliary elements is rotated, and
• determining the direction of rotation of the arrangement of the auxiliary elements from the sequence in which the auxiliary element of the first configuration type and the auxiliary element of the second configuration type, which elements are assigned to one another, are sensed.