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Identity and SSO integration

Let one governed identity control locker access.

When somebody joins, changes role or leaves, the same agreed identity policy can determine whether they may use workplace storage or collect shared equipment—without a second locker credential list.

  • Lifecycle-led access
  • Policy-based entitlement
  • Timely access removal
Okta identity governance visual showing access assigned to people and groups
Lifecycle starts the decision

A joiner, role change, transfer or leaving date prompts an access check.

Policy decides eligibility

Agreed identity, group, role and site information determines permitted locker use.

Access ends when it should

The offboarding process removes the entitlement and separate credential clean-up.

What Okta provides

Extend enterprise identity decisions into the physical workplace.

Okta currently positions its platform around workforce identity and access management, including single sign-on, authentication, Universal Directory, Lifecycle Management and Identity Governance. Okta’s official Identity Governance documentation describes lifecycle, groups, access requests, entitlements, reviews and System Log events.

A proposed connection could use agreed Okta identity or policy information to govern employee workplace storage and controlled equipment collection and return. The exact supported interface, authentication route, data direction and events must be confirmed.

The design should fit the wider workplace journey across buildings and hybrid teams. For operational context, Vpod’s global FMCG case study shows IT asset lockers operating at estate scale; it is not evidence of an Okta integration.

Make policy useful at the locker

Turn “approved employee” into a clear physical outcome.

The useful result is simple: the employee signs in or presents the agreed credential, the locker checks the permitted workflow, and the right door opens—or access is safely refused and sent to the right team.

One recognised person

Match locker access to an approved enterprise identity instead of another local account.

One current decision

Use the agreed policy and lifecycle status at the point the employee needs access.

The identity-led locker journey

From access policy to Locker C-12.

This example shows a new London employee becoming eligible for a workplace locker. It illustrates a design pattern, not deployed or native functionality.

OKTA · ILLUSTRATIVE IDENTITY POLICY
USER ACTIVEJordan Lee · London employeeGroup: Workplace Access · policy current
VPOD SMART LOCKER
STORAGE AVAILABLELocker C-12 entitledFloor 2 East · use agreed credential
  1. 01 · LIFECYCLE

    Receive the identity change

    A person joins, changes role, moves site, is suspended or leaves.

  2. 02 · POLICY

    Apply the access rule

    The agreed policy checks the person’s current status, group, role or location.

  3. 03 · ENTITLE

    Allow the right locker use

    Approved workplace storage or equipment access becomes available under defined limits.

  4. 04 · AUTHENTICATE

    Confirm the employee

    The person uses the agreed sign-in, badge, phone or PIN route at the point of use.

  5. 05 · USE

    Open, collect or return

    Only the door and action allowed by the current entitlement are available.

  6. 06 · RECORD

    Log the agreed event

    Access, denial, collection, return or timeout can inform the chosen operational record.

When access cannot be confirmed

If identity cannot be matched, the policy denies access, no locker is available or the credential fails, keep the door secure and route the case to the named IT, security or facilities owner.

Governing several sites

Keep core identity, review and removal rules consistent while each building documents its locker zones, equipment permissions, time windows and support contacts.

Illustrative workflow only. Names, groups, locations and locker details are examples. Supported Okta triggers, authentication methods, entitlements and returned events must be confirmed during solution design.

What each team must decide

Clear ownership from identity policy to locker door.

Remove avoidable identity work

Stop managing locker access as a separate employee list.

Compare the control model

Separate locker credentials versus governed enterprise identity.

Control point
Separate locker credentials
Okta-governed identity design
Joiner
A locker administrator creates another account
Eligibility can follow the agreed identity and policy
Role or site change
Old access may remain until manually reviewed
A lifecycle change can prompt a fresh entitlement decision
Leaver
Locker access sits on a separate offboarding list
Removal can follow the agreed deprovisioning process
Authentication
The employee remembers another credential
Use the agreed enterprise authentication or mapped physical credential
Audit
Identity and locker records require manual matching
Agreed events can carry a stable identity reference

See the physical workflow

Connect the employee, the locker and the operational record.

The Smart Estate Logistics Platform video shows people using storage while the organisation retains visibility of availability and activity.

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Decisions to make before implementation

Agree the policy, hand-offs and failure behaviour.

Lifecycle trigger

Confirm the authoritative joiner, change, suspension and leaver events.

Locker entitlement

Define which groups, roles, sites and approvals permit each physical workflow.

Authentication

Choose the supported sign-in or mapped badge, phone or PIN route and fallback.

Events returned

Decide which access, denial, collection, return and timeout events go where.

Access removal

Set timing, retries and emergency revocation for leavers and suspended identities.

Data and ownership

Document identifiers, data direction, retention, monitoring, support and site exceptions.

Integration availability, supported triggers, data direction and delivery scope must be confirmed during solution design. Exact behaviour depends on the agreed Okta, Vpod and smart-locker configuration. This page does not claim a native connector, certification, commercial relationship, customer deployment or functionality beyond the confirmed project scope.

Start with one access decision

Show us how a real employee gains or loses locker access today.

Bring the identity source, sample policies and groups, current credential process, removal timing, event requirements and exception owners.

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