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Work Zones: Possible Uses in Device Manager

Let's dig 👷 a bit more into how you can organise your devices' activities and accesses using the Work Zones.

Serena Santamaria avatar
Written by Serena Santamaria
Updated over a month ago

Introduction

Work Zones can ideally refer to: a department (e.g. administration), a specific room (e.g Boardroom), area of a building (e.g. Main Entrance; Kitchen), a location (e.g. Restaurant 'X') etc.
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When a work zone is created, you can then assign people to it. This will allow you to specify accesses for that specific work zone.
Now you are ready to assign a device to the newly created work zone.
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🤔 Remember:
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1 Work Zone can be linked to multiple Devices.
1 Device can only be linked to a single Work Zone.

Examples

You can use Work Zones in different ways to restrict ⛔ or allow 👍 access to your facilities or areas. Below a couple of examples which can help you empathise with the process 😉


Scenario 1 (one work zone for multiple devices)

  • You are the owner of 3 restaurants
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    • Restaurant A

    • Restaurant B

    • Restaurant C
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  • Each Restaurant has 2 devices
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    • One for the Staff Entrance door

    • The other for the Kitchen door
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    This means that you will have a total of 6 devices among your restaurants named as follow:
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    1. 'Staff Entrance door for Restaurant A'
    2. 'Kitchen door for Restaurant A'


    3. 'Staff Entrance door for Restaurant B'
    4. 'Kitchen door for Restaurant B'


    5. 'Staff Entrance door for Restaurant C'
    6. 'Kitchen door for Restaurant C'

Your chefs can be called to work in whichever of the 3 restaurants you own so what you will do is:
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  • Create 2 Work Zones
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    WORK ZONE 1: 'Staff Entrance'
    WORK ZONE 2: 'Kitchen Door'
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  • Assign the devices as follow:
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    • WORK ZONE 1: 'Staff Entrance':
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      'Staff Entrance door for Restaurant A'
      'Staff Entrance door for Restaurant B'
      'Staff Entrance door for Restaurant C'


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  • WORK ZONE 2: 'Kitchen Door'
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    'Kitchen door for Restaurant A'
    'Kitchen door for Restaurant B
    'Kitchen door for Restaurant C'
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  • Assign the created Work Zones ('Staff Entrance'; 'Kitchen Entrance) to your chefs as they have to access both the Staff doors and the Kitchen doors. If you click on the Work Zone and select the Linked Device Users tab, the imported users will look like in the image below.
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🧠 Tip: On the other hand, if there are waiters who need to access all the Staff Entrance doors but not the Kitchen doors, you will only assign the 'Staff Entrance' work zone to your waiters.

Scenario 2 (one device for a single work zone)

  • The Company Y has 3 departments in its building
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    • Department 1

    • Department 2

    • Department 3
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  • The departments are accessible through 3 separate doors and their assigned devices
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    • Door 1

    • Door 2

    • Door 3
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  • This means that each department's door will have its own device. In this case you will proceed as follow:
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    • Create 3 Work Zones
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      • WORK ZONE 1: 'Department 1'

      • WORK ZONE 2: 'Department 2'

      • WORK ZONE 3: 'Department 3'
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    • Create 3 Devices
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      • 'Door 1 for Department 1'

      • 'Door 2 for Department 2'

      • 'Door 3 for Department 3'


Your employees need to access a specific door according to the department(s) they belong to or cooperate with.
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This means that, if the employee 'Celine' works for 'Department 1' she will need access for the device 'Door 1 for Department 1'. See the final result below.
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Related Records:
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​Work Zones in Device Manager
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