Introduction
Student, faculty, and staff gain entry to buildings and rooms across all electronically controlled Miami campus doors using their Miami ID card or a mobile app.
Capabilities, Benefits, and Key Features
General campus
- Access to some locations granted automatically based on major, campus, housing assignment, office location, or classification
- Tap access
- MobileID access from a smartphone using Miami credentials
Authorized visitors
- Granted access by the department contracting their services
- Tap access
- MobileID access from a smartphone using Miami credentials
Building Point of Contacts (My Door Managers)
- Add and remove individuals to locations under their purview
- Request changes to the access schedule
- Request addition or removal of doors to the access group
- Request new access groups
What can I expect?
- Electronic door opened within 10 seconds of tap or mobile ID
- Adheres to schedule as determined by patron group
- Door stays unlocked for under 20 seconds
- Unauthorized access denied with audible beep and red indicator
- Exterior doors propped open for longer than 40 seconds, may trigger an audible alarm
- Double tapping a reader with your ID card behaves as unauthorized access
- All residence halls are equipped with electronic doors to individual student rooms and specified exterior building doors
- Other buildings and rooms, such as offices, classrooms, etc, are equipped as approved
Limitations / Technology Requirements
- Chip embedded in Miami ID cards must be undamaged:
- Punching a hole in the ID card needs to be done by the Campus Services Center
- Wireless phone charging with card between phone and charger may damage the chip
- MobileID requires IOS or Android smartphone compatible version from Apple Store or Google Play
Who may use it?
- Students, faculty, and staff
- Authorized visitors
Is there a charge to me or my department?
- No separate charge exists for current students, faculty, staff, and authorized visitors to obtain initial card to operate the electronic doors
- Replacement ID cards available from Campus Services Center for a replacement fee
- Ongoing operation of approved readers paid for as part of operational budget for Finance and Business Services
- Physical repairs and initial installation of readers on doors are typically funded using departmental funds