Can my existing gate be automated?

Often yes. The frame has to carry the operator, so we check hinges, posts and weight first.

What happens in a power cut?

Every install gets a manual release, and battery or solar backup where the site suits it.

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.

Automatic Gate Systems in Plantation, FL

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

Safety and backup · Plantation, FL

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

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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.

Plantation · 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.

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.

Older inland streets mix construction from several decades, so two openings on the same block are not necessarily the same problem.

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

Automatic Gates — the full breakdown

Automatic Gates · Plantation

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

Ram arm, swing leaf · concept scene

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

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

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

Before you call

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

Can my existing gate be automated?: Often yes. The frame has to carry the operator, so we check hinges, posts and weight first.
What happens in a power cut?: Every install gets a manual release, and battery or solar backup where the site suits it.
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.

Also covered

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