01 — Sign up
No staff needed
Newcomers scan a code at the entrance, pick a plan and register their face from their own phone — in about a minute.
Solution 001 — Self-running gym
The gym that runs itself.
Members walk in with their face. Payments confirm themselves and land in the right bank account. The owner sees everything from a phone. A complete system — software, face-recognition terminals, door locks and payments — installed and supported by ACTOR.
- Entry
- Face · QR day pass
- Payments
- Bank transfer, auto-confirmed
- Money
- Routed across many bank accounts
- Hours
- 24/7, no one at the desk
0/7
Opening hours, unstaffed
0s
From the console to every door
0
Faces per terminal
0
Manual transfers at month end
01The member journey
From a phone to the gym floor in three steps.
02 — Pay
A transfer that confirms itself
A bank-transfer QR with the exact amount. The moment the money arrives, the membership is active. Expired members are turned away on their own.
03 — Walk in
The face is the key
The terminal recognises the face and opens the door. The decision is made on the device, so an internet outage never locks a member out.
Walk-ins scan a QR at the door, pay for a day pass — and the door opens by itself.
02Multi-bank cash flow
Every payment lands in the right account.
Link as many bank accounts as the business needs — one per branch, per partner, per purpose, at any bank. Rules decide where each payment goes the moment it is created; the bank feed confirms it; every account stays reconciled. Nobody moves money by hand at the end of the month.
- MembershipsMonthly · yearly plans
- Day passesQR at the door
- Personal trainingPer session · packages
- Shop & drinksAt the counter
ACTOR routing rules
- Branch → that branch’s own account
- Training → trainer’s share, paid out automatically
- Every payment → a set share to the tax reserve
- Branch 1Bank A · •••• 0281
- Branch 2Bank B · •••• 7730
- Trainer payoutsBank C · •••• 4410
- Tax reserveBank A · •••• 9902
Illustrative rules and accounts — yours are set in the console and change with the next payment.
01 — Many banks
One ledger for every account
Accounts at different banks sit side by side, with balances and every incoming transfer matched to a member, a plan and a branch.
02 — Routed at the source
No transfers after the fact
Each payment QR is issued for the account the rules choose, so money arrives where it belongs — nothing to move later, no fees for moving it.
03 — Shares
Splits that pay themselves
A trainer’s cut, a partner’s share, a tax reserve — calculated per payment and settled on the schedule you set, with a statement for each person.
04 — Reconciled
Nothing is guessed
Missing, partial and duplicate payments are flagged for a person to decide — never silently accepted or silently lost.
03Built to run unattended
It keeps its rules when the internet, the cloud or the staff are gone.
01 — Autonomous at the door
The cloud may go down
Expiry, the daily visit cap, the home branch — all of it lives on the terminal as a validity window. Offline, the door keeps its rules.
02 — Many locations
One member, every branch
A terminal that meets an unknown face asks its siblings. A confident match that may enter is placed on it at once — the second scan opens the door.
03 — Durable queue
No command gets lost
Enrolments, renewals and door commands wait in a queue with retries. A terminal back after a week offline gets today’s rules, not last week’s.
04 — Nothing to open
Works on any internet line
Terminals call the cloud; nothing ever dials into the gym. No open ports, no VPN, no server on site — a home broadband line is enough.
04The owner’s console
One console for the desk, the doors and the books.
Members, plans, renewals and trainers; terminals and door locks you can open from anywhere; revenue per branch and per account, visit patterns and churn risk. Roles for owner, staff and security, so everyone sees exactly what they need.
- Runtime
- Edge cloud — no server to buy, patch or keep on site
- Identity
- Hashed passwords · rotating sessions · CSRF · deny-wins permissions
- Payments
- Bank-transfer QR per account, confirmed automatically from each bank feed
- Privacy
- Face data encrypted · explicit consent on record · deleted on a fixed schedule after membership ends
- Hardware
- Hikvision face-recognition terminals · linked door locks · QR readers for walk-ins
05Case study — Gym Khánh Vân
A neighbourhood gym brand, no front desk.
Gym Khánh Vân runs several locations in Việt Trì, Vietnam. Paper cards and a desk that always needed someone behind it capped how early it could open and how fast it could grow. The brief: members walk in with their face, newcomers sign up and pay online — over home internet lines that refuse every inbound connection.
- Client
- Gym Khánh Vân · Việt Trì
- Scope
- Product · Engineering · Hardware integration
- Hardware
- Hikvision DS-K1T342MFX
- Year
- 2026
Hikvision · Integration Partner
ACTOR is a Hikvision Integration Partner.
We integrate at the protocol level — ISAPI and the PUSH SDK — so Hikvision terminals plug straight into the products we build. No middleware, no bridge box on site.
The terminal calls the cloud. Nothing ever dials into the gym.
- 01AuthInfo A salt and a one-time challengeonce
- 02Login A signed proof, a session opensonce
- 03CommandRequest Up to 20 commands: people, faces, doorsevery 5 s
- 04CommandResult Results reported, each command settledafter each command
- 05Event Every scan: recorded, de-duplicated, matched to a memberon every scan
06How it’s delivered
From first call to open doors.
01 — Map
We learn how your gym runs
Plans, prices, branches, bank accounts, doors and staff roles — one conversation, one written plan and a fixed quote.
02 — Install
Terminals and locks, fitted
Face-recognition terminals and door locks installed and connected. No server on site and no network changes.
03 — Go live
Members moved over
Existing members, plans and accounts imported; staff shown the console; the first payments routed and checked with you.
04 — Stay on
We keep it running
Monitoring, updates and support after launch — and new branches added whenever you open them.
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runs itself?
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