Door Control
A planned Mirox-Agent application that turns an mrxnode and its relay outputs into managed access control for the entry points of a renewable energy plant — gates, doors, and barriers — so physical access is governed and recorded alongside the rest of your plant.
Planned Capability
Door control is on the roadmap and not yet available. The relay hardware it runs on (the mrxnode and its switching outputs) exists today, but the access-control application — gate actuation, credential management, and access schedules — has no user-facing controls in the Mirox platform yet. This page describes the intended scope. For the access governance that is shipping today, see Access Audit Log.
Concept
The Mirox-Agent already runs on-site to collect data from your plant and reach its network devices. Door control extends that same on-site presence to the physical perimeter: instead of only reading meters and loggers, the agent would also drive a relay output to release a door strike, open a gate, or raise a barrier, and read a contact input to know whether that entry point is currently open or closed.
Because it builds on the existing relay hardware and the agent's secure link to the platform, an authorized operator could grant or revoke access from the same place they manage the rest of the plant — no separate access-control system to install and maintain.
Planned Features
The following are intended capabilities, not current behavior:
- Gate and door actuation — drive a relay output to momentarily release a door or open a gate, with a configurable hold time.
- Open/closed state — read a contact input so the platform can show whether an entry point is open or closed in real time.
- Access schedules — permit access only during defined windows (for example, daytime maintenance hours).
- Credential-based entry — tie an access event to a known person or vehicle so that "who entered when" is attributable.
- Audit trail — every actuation and entry recorded in the unified access log alongside remote-access activity, for compliance evidence.
How It Would Fit
Door control would be one application running on the same hardware as the Generic Relay outputs, deployed through the mrxnode on-site. Access would be governed by the same role model as the rest of the plant — only operators with the appropriate job role on that plant could open an entry point — and every action would land in the platform's audit record.
Available Today
Mirox already records who reached your plant's devices over remote access. The Access Audit Log gives you a tamper-evident, KRITIS/NIS2-aligned feed of VPN and browser-proxy access, with long-term retention. Physical door control is the planned next layer on top of that same governance model.
Related Features
- Generic Relay — the switching outputs door control would drive
- mrxnode — the on-site hardware that hosts the agent and its relays
- Access Audit Log — the access governance and audit record shipping today
- Permission System — the role model that would gate who can open an entry point