V38 · Buildings & Facilities

Physical Security Integration

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Physical security data exists in silos — access control in one platform, CCTV in another, intrusion detection in a third, personnel tracking in a fourth. When an incident occurs, correlating these streams is manual and slow. Unifying them through M8n's ACE engine creates a security posture that is predictive rather than reactive, and can correlate subtle multi-system patterns that no human analyst would catch in real time.
Sensor Ingest Interpret Decide Act Outcome Learn
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Data In — Sensors
  • Access control panels: card reader events, door contact state, REX (Request-to-Exit),

forced/held door alarm

  • CCTV / IP cameras: raw streams fed through video analytics (V07 integration)
  • Passive infrared (PIR) detectors
  • Microwave and dual-tech motion detectors
  • Acoustic glass-break sensors
  • Vibration/shock sensors on doors and windows
  • Outdoor perimeter: IR beam curtains, microwave barriers, buried cable systems,

fence vibration fiber

  • Personnel RTLS: BLE/UWB active badge tracking (location to ±0.5m in complex facilities)
  • Vehicle LPR: License Plate Recognition at entry gates and perimeter roads
  • Visitor management system: pre-registered visitor expected location vs actual
  • Environmental context: gas (V01), fire (V16) — security-relevant environmental threats
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Interpret — What the AI does with it
  • Access + video correlation: badge swipe event → verify person in video frame

matches credential holder (anti-passback, identity verification)

  • Tailgating detection: door open event + occupancy count mismatch beyond threshold
  • After-hours anomaly: access event at unusual time for that credential +

motion in sensitive area = elevated risk score

  • Perimeter breach geometry: which sensors triggered in which sequence → predicted

path and destination

  • Insider threat pattern: unusual access sequence, timing, zone combination, or

frequency relative to historical baseline (ACE pattern analysis)

  • Aggressor dwell: person stationary in restricted area beyond behavioral norm
  • Multi-site credential abuse: same badge used at two facilities within

impossible travel time

Decide & Act — The decision rules
  • Tailgating detected → Alert security desk with camera feed link, log event,

flag for review

  • After-hours high-risk anomaly → Alert duty officer, increase camera polling

rate in zone, request verbal verification

  • Perimeter breach confirmed → Lockdown affected zone access, alert response team

with location and direction of travel, activate all cameras in predicted path

  • Credential abuse (impossible multi-site) → Suspend credential immediately,

alert both facilities, alert credential owner

  • Environmental + access correlation (fire alarm + access event) → Unlock

emergency egress, alert fire responders with occupant count and location

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Outcome & Learn — Closing the loop
  • False alarm rate reduction (each confirmed event vs alert sent)
  • Mean time to detect (MTTD) for real incidents
  • Tailgating rate trend (culture and compliance metric)
  • Insider threat risk score calibration vs actual incidents (ACE learning)
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Industries Served
  • Corporate campuses and headquarters
  • Financial institutions (branch, data center, trading floor)
  • Critical infrastructure: utilities, water treatment, power generation
  • Government and federal facilities
  • Military installations (works with V35 but civilian security context)
  • Healthcare: hospital security, pharmacy, drug storage
  • Retail: loss prevention integration with CCTV and POS
  • Transportation hubs: airports, transit stations
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Regulatory Frameworks

PACS standards (FICAM — Federal Identity, Credential, and Access Management), ISO 27001 Annex A physical controls, CPNI (Centre for Protection of National Infrastructure — UK), NERC CIP physical security requirements (utility), CFATS (Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards), HIPAA physical safeguards (healthcare), PCI DSS physical access controls (payment card environments)

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Transport

Wiegand / OSDP (access control panels to readers), ONVIF (IP camera interoperability), TCP/IP LAN (primary backbone), BLE for RTLS badges, MQTT for event stream aggregation to M8n, direct integration with VMS (Video Management System) via SDK

Deploy Physical Security Integration today

Start free with Scout — 5 edge agents, 10K events/month. Scale when you need to.

All tiers available for this vertical. Scout is free forever (5 agents, 10K events/mo). Hive is $299/mo. Swarm is $999/mo. Colony is custom. Bundle discount: 20% off when paired with an active midmen.ai or augmen.app subscription.
Scout
Free
5 edge agents · 10K events/mo
MQTT + HTTP transport
Community support
Swarm
$999/mo
500 agents · 10M events/mo
All + fleet consensus
Priority support
Colony
Custom
Unlimited agents & events
Dedicated infrastructure
SLA + on-site