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Cantilever slide gate spanning a commercial yard entrance without a ground track
Concept · illustrative

Commercial systems · Parkland, FL

High-cycle gates, barrier arms and shared entries spec'd for uptime.

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

Parkland · Broward County

Commercial hardware is not residential hardware in a bigger box. The difference is the duty cycle: how many times the thing moves in a day, and whether the motor, the chain and the board were rated for that number or for a tenth of it.

A shared entry is a different machine from a private driveway — duty cycle, callbox, resident directory and contractor access all wanted on the same lane.

Planned communities repeat — the same frontage width, the same setback, and often the same entry problem several hundred times over.

One code, many counters

The wind-load requirement in Parkland is the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone standard that governs the whole of Broward. The review that sits on top of it is local, and in a county this dense with planned communities an association's architectural approval is frequently the longer of the two.

Before / after

Drag it backto how we found it.

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

Bare wall and verge before the barrier arm and cabinet were installed
The installed barrier arm and cabinet controlling the same entrance
Barrier armEmpty lane to controlled

Commercial · Parkland

04 frames
Installed barrier arm and cabinet controlling a covered parking entrance

Cabinet and arm in

Landscaped community entrance island with an access pedestal at duskConcept
Community entry
Barrier arm and gate controlling the exit road of a residential plazaConcept
In and out lanes
Barrier arm lowered across a residential community vehicle entrance
Barrier at the lane

Worth knowing

  • Cantilever & barrier
  • Loop detection
  • Serviceable in place
  • High-cycle operators
  • Shared-entry duty cycle
Who manages the residents' access?
Cloud-managed permissions let your manager add and remove people without a service call.
Can you service what we already have?
Yes, and on a shared entry that is often the right first step before anything gets replaced.
Who holds the access list?
Your manager. Cloud-managed systems exist precisely so adding and removing residents is not a service call.
What about emergency access?
Fire and emergency access is part of the specification from the start, not something bolted on at the end.

Next step

Nothing is quoted off a photograph alone. The opening gets measured first, and the drawing follows from the measurements.

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