The invention provides automatic detection equipment for automatically detecting the state in the shaftway. The automatic detection equipment comprises a monitoring device and a processing device; themonitoring device is configured to move together with an elevator lift car and used for monitoring the state in the shaftway; and the processing device is used for processing information from the monitoring device and judges whether the state in the shaftway is normal or not by comparing the information with pre-stored information. The invention further provides a method for automatically detecting the state in the shaftway, and manual checking with long time consumption and low efficiency is replaced.