Workforce + Workplace Solutions

Single-Location Access Control

Access control for offices, clinics, and branches — biometric, card, PIN, and mobile credentials, web-based setup with no server PC, scaling to 255 controllers and 25,000 users on one PoE+ network.

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Most access-control pitches assume a server room and an IT team to run it.

A single office, clinic, or branch has neither, so it either over-buys enterprise kit it can't administer, or settles for a standalone keypad that logs nothing. IPTech deploys Matrix COSEC's single-location tier to close that gap: the same biometric, card, and mobile credentials, the same audit trail and sensitive-area controls the large sites get, but configured from a browser with no server PC, powered over the existing network with PoE+, and scaled to a single site's reality: up to 255 controllers and 25,000 users.

Capabilities

Enterprise control without a server room

COSEC is configured from a browser — no server PC, no extra software to license or maintain. Controllers are plug-and-play: connect them to the network and they come up ready to enroll users.

PoE+ carries both power and data on one cable to panels, controllers, readers, and locks, so there are no separate power runs and no electrician needed at every door. A centralized supply with a UPS means a quick install and one thing to back up, not a wiring project.

Enterprise control without a server room

Hardened controls for the rooms that matter

Even a single site has rooms that need more than a card swipe — a server closet, a cash room, a pharmacy, a records store. The policy engine handles the 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 adjacent doors cannot be open at the same time, forcing single-person passage
2-Person Rule — dual-credential authentication for the highest-security rooms
Dead-man Zone — a monitored area that flags if someone stays past a safe limit

Real-time alerts to the people on site

Entry and exit events, access violations, exceptions, and device failures are pushed in real time by email and SMS. A small site does not need a security operations center watching a wall of screens — the alert reaches whoever is responsible, the moment it matters.

Notifications are programmable, so routine traffic stays quiet and only operationally meaningful events break through. That is what keeps the channel useful instead of ignored.

A complete event record, backed up

COSEC stores up to 500,000 entry and exit events, viewable and downloadable on demand for auditing or review. For a single site, that is years of history without an external log server.

Automatic and manual backup, backup-and-restore, and backup over FTP mean the record survives a hardware failure without an IT team babysitting it — the evidence is still there when someone asks who entered and when.

Reuse the readers you already have

The industry-standard Wiegand interface accepts third-party readers, so an existing card system migrates to COSEC without re-wiring every door or re-enrolling every user. The initial reader investment is protected, not thrown away.

Matrix and third-party readers coexist during the switch, and credentials — card, fingerprint, or mobile — carry across. The migration happens at the pace the site can absorb, not in one disruptive cutover.