Is it safe around kids and pets?

Photo-eyes and edge sensors stop and reverse the gate. They are commissioned, not just fitted.

Can I still open it by hand?

Every install gets a manual release, and where it goes is part of the job — it has to be findable in the dark.

Will it work with my existing remotes?

Often. Where the frequency matches, what you already carry gets re-programmed rather than replaced.

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.

Smart & Automatic Gates in Hollywood, FL

Sliding gate between rendered pillars with clipped hedges either side

Who opens it · Hollywood, FL

Phone control, keypad and remotes on one operator, set up on site.

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Barrier arm lowered across the entry lane of a gated residential community. — Central Broward — The older inland grid either side of I-95 and the canal network that runs through it.

Hollywood · Broward County

Most households end up wanting three ways in: a remote in the car, a code for the people who visit often, and a phone that works from anywhere. All three run off the same operator, and which one you reach for is a habit you settle in the first week.

A short frontage usually means a slide operator rather than a pair of arms, and the safety loop has to be cut into a driveway that was already short to begin with.

On a short frontage the gate, the operator and the access hardware are all competing for the same few feet.

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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 — Hollywood handles that itself, and starting it early is the cheapest decision on the whole project.

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Automatic Gates · Hollywood

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Lit modern house at dusk with vehicles parked under the entrance canopy

Home before you park

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

Solar panel mounted above a white aluminum gate powering its operator — Solar-powered leaf

Ram-arm operator fitted to the hinge post of a light aluminum swing gate — Ram arm, swing leaf

Technician sealing a finished underground safety loop cut in a driveway — Loop sealed in

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 — Safety loopCut, laid, sealed, gone

Technician sealing the finished underground loop cut in the same restored driveway — Safety loopCut, laid, sealed, gone

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Phone control
Operator sized to weight
Safety sensors
Loop detection
Slide & cantilever options

Is it safe around kids and pets?: Photo-eyes and edge sensors stop and reverse the gate. They are commissioned, not just fitted.
Can I still open it by hand?: Every install gets a manual release, and where it goes is part of the job — it has to be findable in the dark.
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.

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The towns marked Central Broward share the same geography as Hollywood.