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 Parkland, FL

Black automated sliding gate with an entry post standing open at a residential driveway

Who opens it · Parkland, FL

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

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Automatic Gates · Parkland

06 frames

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 gate — 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

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

Timber-and-steel entry gate framed by dense climbing greenery. — The north-west communities — Master-planned since the seventies, which means shared entries far more often than private ones.

Parkland · 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 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.

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

Automatic Gates — the full breakdown

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

No sales script

Operator sized to weight
Safety sensors
Loop detection
Phone control
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.