by Liz Karson | Apr 26, 2024 | Automatic Barrier Gates
ECI was called to a near northwest Chicago suburban location. We furnished and installed a replacement Magnetic Automation Parking Pro barrier gate at the access lane adjacent to the guard house. The new gate is shown above. It includes an optional LED lighted arm for...
by Liz Karson | Apr 19, 2024 | Slide Gate Operators
Last year ECI was called to this Naperville, IL location where we installed a Linear® Slide Gate Operator to replace an older operator and also match other slide gate operators installed on site. The operator is shown in the image above to the far-left center. It is...
by Liz Karson | Apr 12, 2024 | Parking Access and Revenue Control Systems
I’ve recently written two articles about an installation we did last year at the Easter Seals Terrence J. Hancock Family Campus in Chicago. At the time we furnished and installed a turnkey vehicle access control system at the site. A Cellgate W410 Telephone Entry...
by Liz Karson | Apr 5, 2024 | Parking Access and Revenue Control Systems
Last year ECI was called to the University of Illinois Chicago Campus for another project, this time at Lot M. The completed turnkey project is shown to the left. The existing concrete island at this parking lot had deteriorated and needed to be replaced. We first...
by Liz Karson | Mar 29, 2024 | Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)
I wrote to you last week about a turnkey vehicle access installation at the Easter Seals Terrence J. Hancock Family Campus in Chicago. That article was entitled: “Elka Automatic Barrier Gates At Easter Seals Facility Exit.” ECI furnished and installed the Infinity...
by Liz Karson | Mar 22, 2024 | Electrical Contractors
Last year ECI provided a turnkey installation for vehicular access control for this Easter Seals location in Chicago, IL. The egress lanes are shown above with two new Elka automatic barrier gates. Pictured below is the same view prior to the installation. Elka...
by Liz Karson | Mar 14, 2024 | Control System Integrators
Last week I wrote about a Wisconsin installation where ECI supplied and installed two HySecurity SlideDriver™ 40 gate operators. The blog was entitled “HySecurity SlideDriver™ 40 Operators Move Two Custom Gates.” I also promised to show you a video; it’s...
by Liz Karson | Mar 8, 2024 | Electrical Contractors
ECI furnished and installed two Nice/HySecurity SlideDriver™ 40 gate operators for these two colorful sliding gates at a southeastern Wisconsin location in 2022. The gate operators are the dark enclosures shown to the far left and far right in the image above. Each is...
by Liz Karson | Mar 1, 2024 | Automatic Barrier Gates
Last year ECI returned to the Oakbrook Club, a residential gated community in Oakbrook, IL. We replaced two obsolete barrier gates with new Magnetic Automation Barrier Gates (pictured above). The left lane is access for visitors who are greeted by a guard. The right...
by Liz Karson | Feb 23, 2024 | ADA Gates
Earlier this month I wrote an article about three Hayward waist-high turnstiles and a handicap access gate we installed at a site in a south suburb of Chicago. It was entitled “Waist High Turnstiles and Handicap Accessible Gate Tandem.” This brief video shows the...