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Elevator Access Control

Floor-by-floor access control — restrict who reaches which floors, when, with biometric, card, PIN, or mobile credentials. Scales to 64 floors and enterprise-scale user bases, with fire-alarm and CCTV integration built in.

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In a multi-tenant tower or a mixed-use building, the lobby door is the easy part — the real exposure is the elevator.

Anyone in the lobby can ride to any floor unless the lift itself enforces access. IPTech deploys Matrix COSEC elevator control so the credential that opens the door also decides which floor buttons light up: a contractor reaches the site office and nowhere else, a guest reaches their booked floor and the gym, staff reach their department. Access is governed by user classification, time zone, and group — not just the individual — so a whole department or tenant inherits the right floors at once. And the same controller reaches beyond the lift to entry/exit doors and data racks, so one system governs floor, door, and rack access together. Every floor request is logged, so an emergency muster or a security review has a record, not a guess.

Capabilities

Floor access by person, group, and time

COSEC maps each credential to the floors that person — or their whole group — is allowed to reach, within the hours they're allowed to reach them. A cleaning crew badge opens floors 3 to 8 between 6 PM and 10 PM; an executive card reaches the boardroom floor any time; a tenant's staff inherit their leased floors as a group, so onboarding one new hire doesn't mean re-mapping floors by hand.

Press a floor button without authorization and the lift simply doesn't respond — no override, no exception left to the operator at the panel. The same controller extends past the lift to entry/exit doors and data racks, so floor, door, and rack access run on one policy engine.

Fire alarm, CCTV, and emergency release

When the fire panel trips, COSEC releases floor locks on the evacuation path and triggers hooters, so people aren't trapped behind a credential reader during an evacuation.

Unauthorized floor attempts capture a CCTV snapshot tied to the time and the credential used — the security team reviews what actually happened, not just that something happened.

Floor-level audit trail

Every floor request is logged: user ID, name, date, time, which elevator, which floor. Reports run elevator-wise (what happened in lift B today) or user-wise (everywhere this contractor went this week).

For buildings under tenancy or compliance review, the log is the evidence — who reached which floor, when, and whether the rules held when nobody was watching.