Today’s modern buildings face evolving security challenges, with employees, contractors, visitors, and vendors all requiring appropriate access. Simply letting people in is no longer enough. Physical Identity and Access Management (PIAM) goes beyond traditional access control to ensure the right individuals enter the right places, at the right times — all managed automatically and securely.
With so many different people coming and going, managing identity and access is more important—and more complex—than ever.
Traditional Physical Access Control Systems (PACS) are good at letting people in or keeping them out, but they often miss bigger questions: Who should have access? Why? Under what conditions? For how long? Moreover, these systems rarely automate these decisions, creating more manual work and potential errors.
What is PIAM? A Smarter way to manage identities, credentials and access rules
PIAM links identity management with physical access control. It brings together how organizations handle employees, visitors, and contractors, and uses automation to assign and remove access as needed.
A robust PIAM solution:
- Centralizes identity data from HR, IT, and security systems.
- Automates access decisions using business rules and real-time statuses (e.g., new employee, contracts ending, visitor checkout).
- Seamlessly integrates with your access control system, ensuring access permissions are instantly applied at the door.
By automating these processes, PIAM cuts manual work, improves security, and simplifies compliance—all without interrupting your daily operations.
Introducing Salto IDM: The Future of PIAM
Salto IDM is an advanced PIAM platform that lets you manage physical identity, digital credentials and access rules from one easy-to-use interface. It connects your business systems with your physical security infrastructure, automatically controlling who gets access, when, and for how long.
Key Capabilities of Salto IDM
- Centralized identity management: Bring together data from HR, IT, and security systems into one place for accurate, automated access control.
- Automated access workflows: Set up smart rules based on roles, locations, and time periods. Automatically send approval requests, notifications, and handle provisioning right away.
- Seamless access control system integration: Instantly sync with Salto Space so approved access is updated right away at entry points and removed automatically when it’s no longer valid.
- Mobile credentials: No more physical badges. Give secure digital keys straight to employees, visitors, and contractors on their smartphones.
- Advanced visitor and contractor management: Pre-register guests from your calendar apps like Outlook or Gmail, reuse past visitor profiles for quicker check-ins, and make entry smoother.
- Face check-in: With XS4 Face face recognition technology enhance security and speed up access by verifying identities through advanced face recognition, allowing touchless and fast identity validation at entry points.
- Real-time monitoring and reporting: See who is on-site, when, and why. Easily create detailed audit trails to meet internal and emergency needs, and automate data requirements like GDPR.
Why choose Salto IDM?
Salto IDM turns traditional access control into a smarter, identity-focused process:
- Enhanced security: Automate access assignment and revocation to eliminate manual errors.
- Regulatory compliance: Generate comprehensive audit trails meeting GDPR and other standards.
- Operational efficiency: Automate and streamline workflows across HR, IT, and security teams.
- Scalable and fexible: Supports single and multi-site environments, cloud-hosted or on-premise.
Whether you manage offices, healthcare facilities, or critical infrastructure, Salto IDM provides centralized control without complexity.
Getting started with Salto IDM is easy
- Set up your integration with Salto Space and your existing business systems.
- Customize automated workflows to align with internal policies.
- Define identity groups and set precise access rules.
- Easily train your teams using clear, user-friendly documentation.
Our team is here to support you every step of the way, ensuring everything runs smoothly from setup through daily use.
The future of access is identity-first
Salto IDM shows our commitment to improving access management by making identity the main focus. Today’s smart building ecosystems are complex and evolving rapidly, so manual processes and siloed systems no longer work. With automated workflows and centralized identity management, Salto IDM helps organizations work smarter and stay secure.
With this identity-first approach, each person’s access rights are automatically and accurately managed based on their role, status, and needs. This reduces risk and mistakes. It also means better security, smoother operations, easier compliance, and a better experience for everyone — employees, contractors, and visitors.
Modern buildings now support diverse users, flexible schedules, and varying access needs. Salto IDM gives organizations a flexible and scalable way to manage this. We help you control who is on-site and respond quickly to changes like new hires, departures, or emergencies. With Salto IDM, your organization can stay ahead of new security challenges by making identity-first access management the norm.
ID Management, faster access, safer access — Built in
At Salto, we believe that ID management and access control are more than just security processes. They represent moments of interaction — chances to make access simpler, quicker, and more respectful for everyone.
With Salto IDM, inclusive and seamless access isn’t added on later; it’s an integral part of the smart Access ecosystem from day one.
Want to learn more about how Salto IDM can meet your identity and access management needs? Contact us. We’re ready to help you unlock smarter, people-focused access with built-in security, efficiency, and user experience.