Gatehouse

Access and security for smart buildings.

Sector
Real Estate · Security
Our role
Product strategy, UX & UI, front-end
Platform
Web, iOS, Android
Focus
Access control, smart buildings

The imagery on this page is conceptual. Product interfaces are added as each case study is enriched.

Context

A building's security is a system of small permissions — who may enter, when, which door, on whose authority. Gatehouse is the surface that keeps that system in order without turning a lobby into a checkpoint.

Challenge

Access-control software is usually built for the installer, not the person who runs the building day to day. The task was to make a serious security system legible to the people who actually operate it.

Approach

We designed around the operator's real questions — who is in the building, what just happened at that door, how do I grant or revoke access now — and made the answers reachable in a tap, with the audit trail kept honest underneath.

Key decisions

The live state of the building leads; configuration sits behind it. Every grant and revocation is logged and attributable. Alerts are ranked so the one that matters is not lost in the ones that do not.

The interface

A calm control surface: the building's doors and zones at a glance, a clear record of what happened where, and access changes made without a manual open on the desk.

Outcome

A security system the building's own people can run — precise where it must be, quiet the rest of the time.

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