IDENTITY-CENTRIC ACCESS CONTROL
Access control used to be about the door.
Now it is about the person
For thirty years the question was which credential opens which door. Drawbridge asks a better one: who is this person, and where should they be able to go? One identity, carried across every door, every site, the video system and the sign-in — so the answer stays consistent whether someone is badging in, appearing on camera, or logging in to check a report.
THE SHIFT
Two assumptions that stopped being true
Traditional access control was built on two assumptions. The first was that the door is the unit of security — a panel decides whether this credential opens this door, and nothing beyond that matters. The second was that a trained operator sits in a security office watching it all day.
Neither describes the buildings that need access control now. People move between sites, work from their phones, and are on camera as often as they are at a reader. And the person running the system is a facilities director or a one-person IT department with four other jobs.
Identity-centric access control starts from the person instead. Their identity is the record. Where they can go, when, and on what device follows from that — and it stays consistent everywhere that identity shows up.
IN PRACTICE
One identity, four places it shows up
At the door
Card, fob or phone — the credential is a form of the identity, not the identity itself. Change the person's access once and it applies everywhere they go.
On camera
Access identity and video identity are synced. Search footage by person, not by scrubbing a door's timeline, and follow them across cameras through the Qualcomm Insight Platform.
At sign-in
Single sign-on across the connected systems, so the person managing access is one identity too — or run access control on its own if that is all you need.
In the record
One audit trail per person rather than a pile of door logs. What they did, where, and when, in one place.
THE DESIGN
We did not build one screen to do both jobs
Most platforms promise a single pane of glass. In practice that usually means a video system with access control bolted on, or an access system with a weak video tab — and whichever one was the after thought is the one that frustrates you daily.
Drawbridge keeps two purpose-built dashboards: one for access, one for video. Each shows the other's events. The identity is shared between them, so a person is the same person in both. You get a tool built for the job in front of you, and the connection between them where it matters.
THE TECHNICAL VIEW
Identity as the security boundary
In security terms, this is the move the rest of the industry is making too: identity as the primary control plane rather than the network perimeter. Permissions attach to a verified person and follow them across systems, which is the physical-security half of a zero-trust posture. Drawbridge supports that model with a single identity across access, video and sign-in, and a per-person audit trail — without requiring the security operations center that enterprise platforms assume.
THE SOFTWARE
Built to be picked up, not studied
Search that works the way search works
Type a name, a door, a date. No query builder, no report wizard, no field you have to know the name of.
It points you at what needs attention
The system surfaces the people, doors and events that need a decision, without interrupting what you were doing.
At sign-in
The same screens on a desktop, a tablet and a phone. Not a cut-down mobile app with half the functions missing.
Threat levels and instant lockdown
Raise a threat level or lock down a zone, a building or every site — from a phone, a desktop or a wall button.
People, not keyrings
Add a person, give them what they need, let it expire on the date it should. Card, fob or phone.
THE RESULT
The front office can run it
The measure of access control software is not what it does in a demonstration. It is whether the person responsible can do what they need at 7:45 on a Tuesday without calling anyone.
Our customers report up to 90% reductions in learning time and tech support calls.
THE REST
What else is worth knowing
DELIVERY AND COST
Hosted, maintained, backed up and monitored by AMT, with nothing on site to patch.
SECURITY
Hardened, multi-layer, secure by design, with backups an intrusion cannot reach.
HARDWARE
Non-proprietary: standard readers, locks and controllers, including the ones already on your doors.