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Automated swing gate with its operator arm mounted at the base of a stone pillar

Safety and backup · Davie, FL

Photo-eyes, edge sensors and a manual release on every install.

Low sun raking through the vertical slats of a dark timber gate at the end of the day.
The western tierAcreage and horse property against the Everglades boundary — long drives, gates far from the house.

Davie · Broward County

Two things separate a commissioned gate from a fitted one. The detection actually stops and reverses the leaf, tested rather than assumed. And there is a manual release you can find in the dark, with battery or solar backup where the site suits it.

Mains power at the road is not a given out here. That single question decides between a trenched run, a solar operator and a battery-backed unit, and it gets asked first.

Ground that carries trucks, trailers and equipment moves under load, and anything set into it has to tolerate that.

Ask before the steel is ordered

Broward is inside the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone, so the wind rating is settled by code rather than by preference. What is not settled by code is the local review — Davie handles that itself, and starting it early is the cheapest decision on the whole project.

Automatic Gates · Davie

05 frames
Solar panel mounted above a white aluminum gate powering its operator

Solar-powered leaf

Sliding gate between rendered pillars with clipped hedges either side
Slide between hedges
Ram-arm operator fitted to the hinge post of a light aluminum swing gateConcept
Ram arm, swing leaf
Technician sealing a finished underground safety loop cut in a driveway
Loop sealed in
Lit modern house at dusk with vehicles parked under the entrance canopy
Home before you park

Before / after

Drag it backto how we found it.

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

Technician marking a driveway beside a concrete saw before the safety loop is cut
Technician sealing the finished underground loop cut in the same restored driveway
Safety loopCut, laid, sealed, gone

Before you call

  • Phone control
  • Operator sized to weight
  • Safety sensors
  • Loop detection
  • Solar & battery options
Will it work with my existing remotes?
Often. Where the frequency matches, what you already carry gets re-programmed rather than replaced.
How loud is it?
The operator type decides most of that. Hydraulic, screw-drive and rack-and-pinion units do not sound alike, which is worth knowing before one is fitted.
The gate is nowhere near a power supply.
That is a normal starting point. Solar, battery and trenched runs are all real options, and the site decides between them.
How far can the control run?
Further than most people expect, but the run length is what decides the cable, the voltage drop, and whether wireless is the better answer.

Next step

Describe the gate and where it is in Davie, and you will get an answer from someone who works on them rather than a call-centre script.

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