THE CATEGORY
Every mobile credential does the same three things: turn an identity into a pass, put the pass in a phone, and let a reader at a door honour it. Knight Watch has built two routes into that. One is running in production today. One is built, hand-validated against the vendor's certification tier, and available on request. Which is which is printed on the board, not in a footnote.
ROUTE ONE · HID
ROUTE TWO · KNIGHTPASS
KnightPass is Knight Watch's own mobile credential platform. It provisions mobile access credentials into Apple Wallet and Google Wallet through the WaveLynx Wallet API, and it runs in production today on Knight Watch's own AWS account. Four ways to issue, all live — confirm the target WaveLynx environment with us before a pilot.
One of the two underlying paths: the credential is provisioned directly to the device.
The console delivers the credential as a WaveLynx provisioning link — displayed as a QR code, or copied and sent by email or text. The holder opens it on their phone and adds the pass to Apple Wallet or Google Wallet. KnightPass itself has no end-user app to install.
Issue a visitor pass with its lifetime set at the moment of issue — days, hours and minutes, from a five-minute minimum up to thirty days. The pass is provisioned into the visitor's phone wallet as an ephemeral guest credential, and the WaveLynx Wallet platform stops honouring it when the time is up. Nobody has to remember to switch it off.
Upload or paste a CSV and issue a credential per row, with per-row results and a downloadable success/failure report.
AFTER ISSUE
A credential you cannot take back is a liability. KnightPass listens to WaveLynx for the whole life of the credential and pushes each change into the customer's access control system through one adapter contract — with a retry ladder that gives up loudly rather than quietly.
| WaveLynx status | Backend action | What happens |
|---|---|---|
| ACTIVE | Provision | The adapter writes the credential into the customer's access control system |
| SUSPENDED | Suspend | The adapter suspends it |
| DELETED | Delete | The adapter deletes it |
| NOT_COMMISSIONED | — none — | Transitional. Deliberately no backend sync |
| PENDING | — none — | Transitional. Deliberately no backend sync |
CONTROL AND AUDIT
A credential platform is a permission machine. It has to prove who issued what, refuse the people it should refuse, and be honest about the events it does not hold.
Operators sign in with Microsoft Entra ID single sign-on, single tenant. Those operators are Knight Watch staff: KnightPass ships today as an internal Knight Watch administration tool, not a customer self-service portal.
Administrative surfaces re-check the admin role against the database and return 403, rather than only hiding a menu item in the browser.
The audit trail is a credential-lifecycle record, not a door-event log. Reader taps stay in the access control platform, where they belong — one system of record per domain.
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