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Intercom entry station mounted on a brick pillar beside a gated entrance

On the gate you have · Boca Raton, FL

Access control talks to the operator, so it usually suits an existing installation.

Black double swing gate open onto a paver driveway lined with clipped hedging.
The south county citiesThe densest run of gated communities anywhere in the three counties.

Boca Raton · Palm Beach County

Access control and the operator are separate machines that agree on one signal. That is why a keypad, a callbox or a reader can usually be added to a gate that is already working, without replacing anything that is not broken.

A shared entry has to carry resident throughput, guest access and vendor access on one lane, and somebody has to be able to add and remove people without booking a service call.

Master-planned streets tend to have their utilities in known places, which makes power and control runs more predictable than on older lots.

Outside the HVHZ — a different set of paperwork

Palm Beach County sits outside the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone that governs Miami-Dade and Broward. Wind still decides the frame here; the product-approval paperwork is simply a different set. Permitting in Boca Raton is administered locally, so confirm what is expected before fabrication starts.

Access Control · Boca Raton

05 frames
Weatherproof steel keypad fixed to a concrete entry wall

Flush to the wall

Callbox on a gooseneck post standing on the verge beside a driveway and fence
Callbox on a gooseneck
Keypad with an integrated card reader mounted on a blue entry pedestal
Keypad plus reader
Finished intercom and callbox post beside a gated driveway entrance
Post finished
RFID reader mounted on a post between bollards at a vehicle entrance
RFID at the lane

Before / after

Drag it backto how we found it.

Same job, same angle. Nothing staged between the two frames.

RFID reader post part-installed between bollards with the wiring still open
The finished RFID reader mounted and closed up on the same post
RFIDReader in at the lane
Bare entry post set in the ground with materials on the driveway around it
The finished intercom and callbox post beside the gated driveway
Telephone entryBare post to callbox

No sales script

  • RFID tags
  • Permissions you control
  • Keypad & code
  • Callbox to your phone
  • Shared-entry duty cycle
Where should the pedestal go?
Far enough back that a car is clear of the road, and at a height a driver can reach without opening the door.
Ours is a shared entry, not a driveway.
Different machine. It gets specified on cycles a day and on who needs to get through it, not on the gate's weight alone.
Who is responsible for the entry?
Usually the association rather than any one resident, which changes who we talk to and who signs the work off.
Is the paperwork the same as Miami?
No. Palm Beach is outside the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone, so it is a different product-approval set, and permitting is administered locally on top of that.

Next step

The difficult entrances are the interesting ones. Tell us what makes yours in Boca Raton difficult and you will get a straight answer about what is possible.

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