A pair halves the arc each leaf needs and doubles the hardware. Opening width and setback usually settle it between them.

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.

Can I let a delivery in from work?

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

Keypad & RFID Access Control in Tequesta, FL

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

Permissions · Tequesta, FL

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

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Grey perforated-panel modern gate across a driveway beneath a cantilevered house overhang. — The north county — From the city up to the Loxahatchee — newer construction, wider frontages, more slide gates than swings.

Tequesta · Palm Beach 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.

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 Tequesta is administered locally, so confirm what is expected before fabrication starts.

Access Control — the full breakdown

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

Access Control · Tequesta

04 frames

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

Finished intercom and callbox post beside a gated driveway entrance — Post finished

Before you call

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

Two leaves or one?: A pair halves the arc each leaf needs and doubles the hardware. Opening width and setback usually settle it between them.
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.
Can I let a delivery in from work?: Telephone entry rings your phone wherever you are, and you open the gate from the call.