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.

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.

Smart & Automatic Gates in Miami Lakes, FL

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

Concept · illustrative

Who opens it · Miami Lakes, FL

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

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Black automatic swing gate standing open across a residential driveway, palms and a low stucco house behind it. — North Dade — The band between the county line and the airport — mid-century driveways, newer builds behind them.

Miami Lakes · Miami-Dade 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 shared entry runs far more cycles a day than a private driveway, so the operator is sized on traffic as well as on the gate's weight.

Master-planned streets tend to have their utilities in known places, which makes power and control runs more predictable than on older lots.

Inside the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone

Miami-Dade sits inside the Florida Building Code's High-Velocity Hurricane Zone, the strictest wind-load regime in the state, so the rating on posts, panels and hardware is not a nice-to-have here. Permits on top of that are issued locally — by the municipality or by the county — so what Miami Lakes wants to see on paper is worth confirming before anything is cut.

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Automatic Gates · Miami Lakes

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Sliding gate between rendered pillars with clipped hedges either side

Slide between hedges

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

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

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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Loop detection
Phone control
Operator sized to weight
Safety sensors
Shared-entry duty cycle

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.
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.

Same county

The towns marked North Dade share the same geography as Miami Lakes.