Restrict access to your location with Brivo Personnel Control

Use Brivo Personnel Control to ensure that employees and contractors can only enter your location once they’ve completed a daily screening process. To add a trigger in MRI OnLocation, you’ll need the Administrator or Trigger Manager user role.

How it works

Brivo Personnel Control is a feature of Brivo Onair that suspends entry access until a user has gone through a screening process each day. Enable this feature in your Brivo OnAir account.

You can use custom questions in your OnLocation sign in/out kiosk to ensure that employees and guests are screened each time they go through the sign in process. If they fail the screening process, they are denied access to the location.

This kiosk screening process connects with Brivo Personnel Control. By creating triggers in OnLocation, you can manage a user’s access status in Brivo. Triggers are available for:

  • Employee sign in and out
  • Contractor sign in and out

When an employee or contractor successfully signs in to an OnLocation kiosk or on OnLocation Mobile, their user access is restored in Brivo. They can access any buildings or entry points that they have access to in Brivo. Later when they sign out, their access status reverts to suspended.

If a user is unsuccessful in signing in to a kiosk, they'll receive a denied entry message, notifications will be sent to the relevant people, and the entry point will remain locked.

To set up the integration:

  1. Configure the settings in your Brivo Onair account
  2. Set up your custom questions for your OnLocation sign in/out kiosk (if you haven’t already)
  3. Add the triggers in OnLocation 

Configure Brivo Personnel Control in Brivo Onair

Before you start:

To enable Brivo Personnel Control:

  1. Log in to your Brivo OnAir account.
  2. Click on your name in the top right corner, then click Account Settings.
  3. Select Personnel Control.
  4. Select the Enable Personnel Control Configuration checkbox.
  5. Next to Checkpoint Devices, click Choose to select a door.
  6. Next to Excluded Groups, click Choose if you’d like a group of users to be excluded.

For more help on enabling this feature, watch Brivo's video on configuring Personnel Control. 

To disable the feature, clear the Enable Personnel Control Configuration checkbox.

Set up triggers in OnLocation

  1. Go to Tools > Locations.
  2. Click View next to your location.
  3. Select Triggers from the left-hand menu.
  4. Click Create a New Trigger.
  5. Enter the trigger name, select Active as the status, then select the Trigger Event. 
  6. Click Next.
  7. In the Trigger Actions tab, click Create a New Action.
  8. Select Brivo - Update Suspended status in Brivo.
  9. Select Not Suspended as the Brivo user status.
  10. Click Save and Close.
  11. Click Create a New Trigger.
  12. Enter the trigger name, select Active as the status, then select the Trigger Event. Click Next.
  13. In the Trigger Actions tab, click Create a New Action.
  14. Select Brivo - Update Suspended status in Brivo.
  15. Select Suspended as the Brivo user status. 
  16. Click Save and Close.

The next time an employee signs in or out using a kiosk or OnLocation Mobile, their user access status in Brivo will be automatically updated.