It is certainly embarrassing standing by a locked door waiting for one of your fellow co-workers to walk by, but it always seems to happen at the most inopportune times.  The Rändivoo Mobile is an app that solves this problem.

Though this app could ease the minds of employees in an office, it could also provide visitors who arrive for a meeting with a more seamless experience.  For example if a sales person wanted to set up a meeting with a potential new client at his head office.  The client would receive an email with an attached button that would allow him access to the relevant doors within the  building.  The system also allows for the flexibility to grant them access for the duration of the meeting or even for the whole day. By logging in with either a Salesforce or Google+ account, an administrator of an office or building is able to provide access to a certain set of doors and for a particular length of time.

The administrator using the app is able to choose the Estimote beacon, which is shown on a radar, and proceed to associate it to any of the doors on the account.  They will also have the option to name the beacon, enter the distance at which the door should be pulsed,  and determine whether the user will need to push a button to open the door or have the door open just by walking up to it with the “Push To Pulse" option.

As a user, there are simply two options, to run the service or turn it off.  The users may also view the sites and doors that they have access to at that time.

According to Brivo, there are already features on the roadmap that will be added, such as integration with Brivo's visitor management system, Rändivoo.  This would allow a visitor the ability to walk through the locked front entrance of a building and trigger an alert to be sent to the person who invited them to advise that they have arrived.  The visitor would have bypassed the whole check in process by simply walking through a secured door.

Taking it further, Rändivoo Mobile will also have the potential to interact with elevators.  Instead of having to scroll through emails to find the office number and then figure out which floor is required the user will need only to walk into the elevator and it would be smart enough to know where to stop.

There certainly seems to be numerous possibilities for this technology and Brivo tells us that they intend to explore them all.