System and method for monitoring door usage

A method of monitoring usage of an automated door assembly with a remote device connected to the internet, comprising:

• connecting a sensor to a local area network having a firewall and connected to the internet;
• and
• communicating with the sensor using a handshake protocol;
• wherein the sensor has been coupled to the automated door assembly and has been assigned a unique client name,
• the remote device comprises a manager,
• the communicating comprises
• the manager authenticating the sensor,
• the sensor sending a keep-alive notification and/or a trigger event count to the manager, and
• the manager sending a trigger record response to the sensor, and
• the method further comprises storing a database of keep-alive notifications received from the sensor;
• storing a database of trigger event counts received from the sensor;
• sending a notification to a user;
• displaying automated door assembly usage information to the user;
• and
• performing predictive maintenance on the automated door assembly based on the usage of the automated door assembly.