Matrix Access Control Solution

Biometric, card, PIN, and mobile-credential access control on Matrix COSEC — scaling from a single site to 65,000 doors and one million users, with fire-alarm, CCTV, and HRMS integration built in.

Access control is the most audited surface of any building.

Every door, every elevator, every gate becomes evidence — who entered, when, with what authorization, and whether the rules held when nobody was watching. IPTech deploys Matrix COSEC because the platform is built for that audit-by-default reality, not retrofitted to it — and because it scales from a single office to multi-site enterprises without changing the operator experience.

Capabilities

User-, zone-, and time-based access

COSEC enforces access policy along three axes — who the user is, which zone they are trying to enter, and what time they are attempting it. The combination is what catches most operational gaps.

Time-windowed access blocks contractors from entering outside agreed shift hours. Zone-based access restricts maintenance crews to maintenance areas. Route-based access requires users to enter zones in a sanctioned order — useful for clean-room workflows or staged-security buildings where skipping a checkpoint is itself an event.

Built to scale across sites

A single COSEC deployment supports up to 65,000 door controllers and one million users on one platform. Multi-site enterprises run identical policies across every location without per-site administration overhead — change a rule once and it propagates.

The same architecture handles a 12-door head office and a 1,200-door industrial campus. Sites onboard via VYOM (cloud) by URL — no new server, no per-site deployment cost — or via CENTRA (on-premise) when data-residency requirements rule out cloud hosting.

Hardened controls for sensitive areas

For data centres, treasury rooms, lab spaces, and other high-risk zones, the policy engine handles corner cases that catch most operators out:

First-In User — a zone cannot open until an authorized opener is physically present
Anti-Passback — one credential cannot be reused to tailgate a second person through the same door
Man-Trap — two-stage authentication where two adjacent doors cannot be open simultaneously
2-Person Rule — dual-credential authentication required for the highest-security rooms
Occupancy Limits — zone capacity is enforced, not just monitored

Real-time alerts when rules trip

When a policy is violated — an unauthorized door attempt, a sustained door-held-open, an out-of-hours entry — COSEC pushes the event in real time to SMS, email, or WhatsApp. Security operators see the event, the user, the door, and the timestamp without opening a console.

Routine activity stays out of the channel. Notifications fire only when something operationally meaningful happens, which is what keeps the channel useful instead of saturated.

Fire alarm, CCTV, and HRMS integration

Where most projects break is at the integration layer. COSEC integrates with fire-alarm, CCTV, turnstile, boom-barrier, and tripod systems at protocol level — not by emailing each other.

When the fire alarm trips, doors unlock and cameras start recording — automatically. Emergency-mustering headcount becomes a derived fact, not a manual call-around. Door events sync to CCTV streams so security can see who triggered an alert. And the HRMS gets the same user identity the door reader saw, which is how attendance and access stay in agreement.