The Guard App

Security at the gate,
logged to the second.

The ArcEntry guard app runs your gatehouse. Guards scan every visitor and vehicle, follow the estate's entry procedure at each access point, and take gate calls from residents — while management sees the full picture, live.

Scan, log, release

Two barcodes and a photo — the visitor is in.

The guard app replaces the paper visitor book with the two barcodes already in every car: the driver's licence and the vehicle licence disc. The guard scans, snaps any passengers, confirms the destination, and lifts the boom.

Driver's licence & ID scan

PDF417 barcode scanning of South African driver's licences — the guard holds the licence in the frame and the visitor's identity is captured in a second, no typing.

Vehicle disc scan

The vehicle licence disc barcode is scanned straight off the windscreen — registration, make, colour and expiry captured against the visit in one shot.

Passenger photos

Capture a quick photo of each passenger against the visit — a face for every person in the vehicle, not just the driver on the licence.

Visitor & vehicle log

Every entry and exit is a searchable, timestamped record against the destination unit — audit-ready without a single line of handwriting.

Gate calls to residents

A registered SIP endpoint at the gatehouse — the guard sees the tenant directory for the site and calls the unit directly to confirm a visitor is expected.

Silent kiosk updates

Devices are paired per access point and update themselves in the background — no guard ever has to tap "install", no shift is ever running last week's build.

In the guard's hand

Three screens, one shift.

The guard app runs on the rugged handheld at the gatehouse or on a consumer phone. The guard lives in three places: the visit wizard, the vehicle lookup, and the access-point switch when they hand over.

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Visit — Entry
Scan driver's licence
Hold barcode in the frame
Log a visit The wizard follows the site's entry procedure — scan, capture, confirm the unit, save.
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Vehicle Lookup
Search by registration
ND 123-456
Prior visits, unit, driver
Scan a vehicle Licence disc barcode or manual plate lookup — history, unit, and prior visits in one screen.
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Access Point
Northgate Estate
Main Gate · on shift
Pedestrian Gate
Switch access point One device, many gates. Handovers between shifts are a two-tap switch, not a re-provision.
How it holds up

Built for the gatehouse.

Offline-tolerant

Queues, then syncs

If the gatehouse network drops mid-shift, visits queue on the device and sync the moment it returns. No visitor waits for a spinner, no record is lost.

Rugged & consumer

Any Android device

Runs on the C66 rugged handheld we ship with the estate — and on any consumer Android phone if a stand-in device is needed at short notice.

Per-site procedure

The estate's rules

Management configures the entry procedure per access point in the portal — the guard app follows it. Change the rules once, every guard is on the new script by the next shift.

Roll it out

The guard app is provisioned per estate.

The ArcEntry guard app isn't a public app-store download — it's a managed kiosk app, paired to your site and access points and updated silently in the background. Talk to us to roll it out at your gatehouse.

Talk to us about the guard app
  • Ships with every ArcEntry site — no per-guard licensing
  • Runs on the rugged handheld we supply, or on your own Android device
  • Silent background updates — no guard has to tap "install"

Give your guards the tool the paper book should have been.

The guard app ships with every ArcEntry site — one estate, one portal, one record for every person and vehicle at the gate.

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