The High-Velocity Hurricane Zone — the Florida Building Code's strictest wind-load region. It covers all of Miami-Dade, which is why the hardware spec here is not the spec further north.

Can I let a delivery in from work?

Telephone entry rings your phone wherever you are, and you open the gate from the call.

What about guests who visit constantly?

They get their own code or tag, and you can pull it later without changing anyone else's.

Does it work with the gate I already have?

Access control talks to the operator, so in most cases it bolts onto what is already there.

Keypad & RFID Access Control in Coral Gables, FL

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

Permissions · Coral Gables, FL

Per-person codes and tags, revoked individually without changing anyone else's.

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Technician working at the control post of a tall ornamental iron gate in front of a palm-lined house. — The estate belt — Deeper setbacks and mature canopy south-west of the city — the openings with room for a two-leaf gate.

Coral Gables · Miami-Dade County

One shared code is one code that eventually everybody knows. Per-person codes and tags mean the cleaner, the pool service and your brother-in-law each have their own, and pulling one does not inconvenience the other two.

A callbox at the road and a keypad at the gate are two different jobs — one is for people you have never met, the other is for the people who live there.

Wider frontages tend to favour a slide or a long swing pair, and both want the ground under them prepared properly.

Two approvals, not one

Anything structural at the property line in Miami-Dade answers to the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone standard, and that is what sets the frame and the fixings. Separately, Coral Gables runs a local review, and where a homeowners' association governs the street it generally runs one of its own. Neither is a thing to discover after fabrication.

Access Control — the full breakdown

Access Control · Coral Gables

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RFID reader mounted on a post between bollards at a vehicle entrance

RFID at the lane

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

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 — RFIDReader in at the lane

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 — Telephone entryBare post to callbox

The finished intercom and callbox post beside the gated driveway — Telephone entryBare post to callbox

Before you call

Keypad & code
Callbox to your phone
RFID tags
Permissions you control
Two-leaf openings

What is the HVHZ?: The High-Velocity Hurricane Zone — the Florida Building Code's strictest wind-load region. It covers all of Miami-Dade, which is why the hardware spec here is not the spec further north.
Can I let a delivery in from work?: Telephone entry rings your phone wherever you are, and you open the gate from the call.
What about guests who visit constantly?: They get their own code or tag, and you can pull it later without changing anyone else's.
Does it work with the gate I already have?: Access control talks to the operator, so in most cases it bolts onto what is already there.

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The towns marked The estate belt share the same geography as Coral Gables.