Managing door access at the College of Engineering used to be a complex and time-consuming endeavor involving both technical and administrative staff. Even without its new annex, the college had 177 doors with electronic access control. The Iowa One Cards of nearly 3,000 students, faculty, and staff had to be manually provisioned to swipe into the appropriate classrooms, labs, conference rooms, and offices.
The card-provisioning process became much smoother and more efficient in the past year thanks to a door-access automation initiative—a sub-project of the OneIT Identity Management Project.