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.

Why is the spec different up here?

Palm Beach County sits outside the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone that governs Miami-Dade and Broward, so the approval route the counties south of it use is the wrong one.

Telephone Entry & Intercom in Delray Beach, FL

Callbox on a gooseneck post standing on the verge beside a driveway and fence

Letting people in · Delray Beach, FL

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

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

Delray Beach · Palm Beach County

The everyday case is not a burglar, it is a delivery driver at four in the afternoon while you are somewhere else. Telephone entry turns that into a phone call you can answer, and the gate opens from the call.

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.

A shared entrance belongs to everybody, which makes downtime a governance problem as much as a mechanical one.

The coastal towns add a layer

Palm Beach County sits outside the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone, so the product approvals differ from the two counties to the south. On top of that, several towns and associations in this county run design guidelines of their own — so what Delray Beach expects is worth reading before a finish is chosen, not after.

Access Control — the full breakdown

Before / after

Drag it backto how we found it.

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

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

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

Access Control · Delray Beach

04 frames

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

Weatherproof steel keypad fixed to a concrete entry wall — Flush to the wall

Keypad with an integrated card reader mounted on a blue entry pedestal — Keypad plus reader

Straight answers

Callbox to your phone
RFID tags
Permissions you control
Keypad & code
Shared-entry duty cycle

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.
Why is the spec different up here?: Palm Beach County sits outside the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone that governs Miami-Dade and Broward, so the approval route the counties south of it use is the wrong one.