Matrix Elevator Access Control
Floor-by-floor access control on Matrix COSEC — restrict who reaches which floors, when, with biometric, card, PIN, or mobile credentials. Scales to 64 floors and one million users, with fire-alarm and CCTV integration built in.
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.
Features
Multi-Credential Support
Fingerprint, RFID card, mobile (BLE / NFC / QR), or PIN — pick what fits the building and the tenant.
64 Floors, One Million Users
One controller scales from a single low-rise to a tower campus without re-architecting.
Centralized Monitoring
Live floor-access status across every lift and building from one console.
Time-Bound Access
Floor privileges switch on and off by schedule — not by a guard remembering.
Emergency Override
Fire-triggered floor release on the evacuation path, automatic.
Snapshot on Exception
Unauthorized floor attempts captured with a CCTV frame for review.
Deployment Options
Related Use Cases
Multi-Tenant Access Control
Facilities Management
Tenant-specific zones in commercial buildings with role-based credentials — each tenant manages their own employees and visitors while building management retains oversight of common areas, lifts, and after-hours access. Reduces FM team interruption for tenant-level access changes.
Back-of-House Access Control
Hospitality
Separate guest and staff zones with role-based credentials — kitchens, housekeeping storage, executive offices, plant rooms. Biometric or card credentials grant access only to the zones the role requires, with audit-grade entry logs for incident review.
Production Zone Access Control
Manufacturing
Restrict entry to high-risk production zones — clean rooms, chemical handling areas, hygiene-critical lines — with role-based credentials, palm-vein readers, and audit trails tied to the operator who entered each zone.
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