by Liz Karson | Jun 30, 2022 | Automatic Swing Gates
Last year ECI was called in to motorize four new gates for a residence in a south suburban Chicago location. The image above shows one of the gates (left facing the street) with a Viking Access Systems G-5 Swing Gate Operator installed on the lower edge of this...
by Liz Karson | Jun 23, 2022 | Automatic Barrier Gates
Last week we wrote about our installing two Gibraltar crash-rated wedge barriers for a newly developed Chicago parking lot. ECI also installed three crashed-rated barrier gates as part of the installation. The customer supplied all of the equipment. Shown above are...
by Liz Karson | Jun 16, 2022 | Wedge Vehicle Barriers
Last year ECI was called in to install some heavy-duty vehicle parking access control devices for a parking lot under development on Chicago’s south side. This was an installation only project where the customer supplied all of the equipment. Pictured above are...
by Liz Karson | Jun 8, 2022 | Automatic Barrier Gates
Last week I wrote to you that ECI installed three DKS® DoorKing® Swing Gate operators for an Illinois company in a southwest Chicago suburb. All of the equipment was supplied by the customer. We installed the operators and interface wiring and also tested to ensure...
by Liz Karson | Jun 1, 2022 | Swing Gate Operators
ECI was contracted to install three DKS® DoorKing® Swing Gate operators for an Illinois company located southwest of Chicago last month. The customer supplied all of the equipment which we installed along with the interface wiring and testing of the vehicle detector...
by Liz Karson | May 26, 2022 | Automatic Barrier Gates
I first wrote about work ECI did for Tootsie Roll in Chicago on this blog almost five years ago. The article was titled “Protecting Tootsie Roll Employee Parking Facility in Chicago”. In the article I discussed an initial security project we completed approximately 10...
by Liz Karson | May 19, 2022 | Turnstile Barrier Gate
Earlier this year ECI installed the tandem turnstiles shown above in a near west Chicago suburban location. These are also frequently referred to as turnstile doors since they are full height. Think of turnstiles as revolving doors except access is limited to...
by Liz Karson | May 12, 2022 | Parking Access and Revenue Control Systems
This is one of the dual exit lanes at the Loyola Medical Center parking lot Deck B. (The second lane is to the left.) The lot is off 3rd Avenue in Maywood, IL. Once again, this is just one part of the rather extensive WPS Parking Access and Revenue Control System...
by Liz Karson | May 4, 2022 | Slide Gate Operators
ECI was called to a north Chicago suburban location doing medical research and treatments at the onset of COVID. We were tasked with automating a designated gated entry point to the site. This enabled management to monitor everyone entering the site and ensure they...
by Liz Karson | Apr 28, 2022 | Counter Terrorism
I have shared two blog articles for an installation at a corporate office in Vernon Hills over the past two months. The installation included anti-terrorist vehicle barriers for the dual entry and exit lanes to the office and parking lot as well as the lane leading to...
