A method for controlling access to a restricted physical space comprising: assigning a plurality of electronic locks to a lock group, transmitting authentication credentials to a plurality of electronic locks, authenticating the lock control device, by each of the plurality of electronic locks, in response to a successful authentication of the authentication credentials, receiving, by the lock control device, an input gesture on an input unit, determining, by the lock control device, that the input gesture corresponds to an enrolled input gesture associated with the lock group and transmitting a control signal to each of the plurality of locks associated to the lock group in response to a successful match of the input gesture with the enrolled input gesture associated with the lock group so as to cause each of the plurality of locks associated with the lock group to be in the activated state simultaneously.