In modern corporate towers, access control should not stop at the lobby turnstile. Employees, tenants, contractors, and visitors must also reach the correct floor securely and efficiently—without creating long queues or relying on manual verification.
Sensor Access Technology’s GuardPoint 10 integration with Mitsubishi Electric SmartLift connects access permissions directly to the Destination Oriented Allocation System (DOAS) through the ELSGW Elevator Secure Gateway. The result is an intelligent elevator experience in which identity, floor authorization, and lift assignment work as one coordinated system.
For property managers and building engineers, this Mitsubishi DOAS integration in the Philippines offers a practical foundation for secure, connected, and future-ready vertical transportation.
How GuardPoint 10 Integrates with Mitsubishi SmartLift
Mitsubishi Electric DOAS groups passengers according to their selected destinations and assigns them to suitable elevator cars. This can reduce congestion and improve passenger flow compared with conventional systems where users enter the first available lift and select floors inside the car.
GuardPoint 10 adds identity-based authorization to this process. Through the ELSGW, the access-control platform communicates with the Mitsubishi lift system over an IP connection. Administrators can define:
- Floors accessible to each cardholder or access group
- Front-door and rear-door opening permissions
- Access schedules based on time, day, or user classification
- Pre-assigned destinations for selected cardholders
- Visitor or contractor access limited to approved areas
Unlike traditional relay-based elevator access control, the integration does not require a separate physical relay for every controlled floor. The ELSGW IP connection allows GuardPoint 10 to exchange authorized destination information directly with the lift system. Sensor Access Technology explains the integration architecture and user workflows here.
A More Seamless Cardholder Experience
The GuardPoint 10 elevator access solution supports several passenger journeys, depending on the building’s operational requirements.
Automatic assignment at the turnstile
An employee presents an authorized credential at the lobby turnstile. The system verifies the person’s access rights, submits the permitted or pre-assigned destination, and displays the elevator to use. The employee does not need to select a floor manually.
Authorized selection at the hall panel
A cardholder presents a credential at a reader near the destination-selection panel. Only floors permitted under that person’s access profile become available.
Pre-assigned destination
A tenant or employee may have a default destination linked to their access profile. After authentication, the system automatically requests the destination and provides the assigned elevator.
These workflows create secure elevator dispatch while keeping the experience straightforward for regular users and visitors.
Features and Business Benefits
| Feature | Operational benefit |
| IP communication through ELSGW | Reduces dependence on extensive floor-by-floor relay wiring |
| Cardholder-based floor permissions | Prevents users from requesting unauthorized destinations |
| DOAS destination grouping | Supports shorter queues and more organized passenger movement |
| Turnstile and elevator integration | Creates a continuous journey from lobby entry to lift assignment |
| Time schedules and access groups | Accommodates employees, tenants, visitors, contractors, and service personnel |
| Front/rear door permissions | Supports buildings with multiple lift entrances or zoned circulation |
| Centralized administration | Simplifies permission updates and access revocation |
| Event and access records | Supports security reviews, investigations, and internal audits |
Security, Efficiency, Compliance, and Sustainability
Stronger floor-level security
Traditional lobby access confirms that a person may enter the building, but it does not always control where that person can travel afterward. GuardPoint 10 extends authorization to elevator destinations, helping protect executive floors, data centers, laboratories, plant rooms, and tenant-only areas.
Improved traffic management
By grouping passengers travelling to similar destinations, Mitsubishi DOAS can improve lift allocation and reduce unnecessary intermediate stops. This is especially valuable during morning arrivals, lunch periods, shift changes, and major events.
Compliance-ready access management
Credential and movement records may contain personal information. Philippine organizations should therefore configure retention, administrator privileges, security safeguards, and audit procedures in line with the Data Privacy Act of 2012 and its implementing rules. The National Privacy Commission calls for reasonable organizational, physical, and technical measures, including controlled access to personal information.
The completed system must also preserve all applicable elevator-safety, fire-service, emergency-operation, and accessibility functions. Project designs should be reviewed against the National Building Code of the Philippines, the Fire Code, and B.P. 344 accessibility requirements. Smart access control supports compliance management, but it does not replace approval by the elevator manufacturer, licensed professionals, building officials, or other authorities having jurisdiction.
Support for sustainability goals
Efficient destination grouping may reduce avoidable lift stops and improve utilization across a multi-car elevator group. IP integration can also require less field wiring and fewer interface components than large relay-based installations. Actual energy savings, however, depend on building traffic, lift configuration, control strategy, and measured operating data.
This makes the platform a useful component of a broader smart building IoT access control strategy rather than a stand-alone guarantee of reduced energy consumption.
Important Procurement and Integration Considerations
Before specifying the solution, procurement and engineering teams should address the following:
- Vendor certification: Confirm compatibility with the exact Mitsubishi DOAS and ELSGW versions. Installation and commissioning should be coordinated with Mitsubishi-authorized elevator personnel and a qualified Sensor Access integrator.
- Network and cybersecurity design: Define IP addressing, segmentation, firewall rules, credential security, administrator roles, monitoring, backup, and recovery procedures.
- API and software development: The ELSGW connection is supported by GuardPoint 10, but integrations with visitor management, mobile credentials, HR databases, tenant applications, or a building management system may require additional API work – select from over 50 available integrations or customize your internal application’s integration with Guardpoint 10 via API.
- Emergency operation: Access restrictions must never interfere with fire recall, evacuation procedures, emergency overrides, accessibility, or other mandated lift functions.
- Procurement strategy: Include software licenses, gateway availability, readers, credentials, turnstile interfaces, testing, training, documentation, warranties, and ongoing technical support in the total project cost.
- Acceptance testing: Test ordinary users, visitors, expired credentials, restricted floors, front/rear doors, network failure, power interruption, emergency modes before handover.
Building Smarter Vertical Access in Metro Manila
For offices and mixed-use developments in Makati, BGC, Ortigas, Quezon City, and other Philippine business districts, integrated destination control can provide a more secure and professional arrival experience. It also gives property teams a scalable way to manage changing tenant populations without redesigning extensive relay interfaces whenever access requirements change.
Planning a new tower or upgrading an existing Mitsubishi SmartLift installation? Contact Infinite Systems Technology Corporation for supplier inquiries, compatibility assessment, system design, and integration support for GuardPoint 10, Mitsubishi DOAS, turnstiles, credentials, and connected building-security platforms.