In this note, an approach based on lifting is introduced for the observer based fault detection (FD) of linear discrete-time periodic systems. The main contribution of this note is to give an analytic expression to transform the linear time-invariant (LTI) observer based residual generator designed based on the lifted LTI reformulation of the periodic system into a periodic observer based residual generator to reduce detection delay. The result enables a systematic transfer of the existing observer based FD methods for discrete LTI systems to discrete-time periodic systems.