by Liz Karson | Sep 13, 2019 | Slide Gate Operators
ECI was called to a storage facility on Chicago’s near west side. The customer wanted to motorize an existing sliding gate. The image above shows the long slide gate which had been manually operated prior. We installed HySecurity’s SlideSmart DC® HD (heavy...
by Liz Karson | Sep 11, 2019 | Crash and Grab
New Zealand City Limited reported just yesterday “Christchurch police are investigating a number of ram raids in the city over the weekend”. A Cash Convertors store in Christchurch apparently was the target of a ram raid by a pair of perpetrators in a...
by Liz Karson | Sep 5, 2019 | Automated Slide Gates
We first discussed sally ports over two years ago when I wrote “Award to ECI For High Security Vehicle Access Sally Port’. Our company was named installation of the month by HySecurity for our work at Chicago’s Midway Airport. There we installed gate...
by Liz Karson | Sep 3, 2019 | Security Bollards
Minister FM News reported late last month about yet another city in England, this time York, possibly installing permanent perimeter security bollards to protect its citizens and tourists on central city streets. The article was entitled “Bollard plan to protect York...
by Liz Karson | Aug 29, 2019 | Automatic Barrier Gates
We were recently called out to Solomon Schechter Day School (of Metropolitan Chicago) in nearby Northbrook, Il. They were having problems with two obsolete automatic barrier gates (see image below) to their underground parking facility. The image above shows the...
by Liz Karson | Aug 27, 2019 | Crash and Grab
I read a news report from the New Zealand Media and Entertainment website just yesterday about two crash and grab raids at stores on the island. The piece was entitled: “Apparent ram raids hit Rebel Sport Whakatāne and Kopuriki General Store”. Cars or...
by Liz Karson | Aug 22, 2019 | Residential Gated Community
As you know, ECI installs, services and maintains access control and related equipment for many residential gated communities in the greater Chicago and southern Wisconsin area. See our Gated Residential Communities page for a listing of locations and equipment...
by Liz Karson | Aug 20, 2019 | Counter Terrorism
Early last month we reported the cancellation of a parade in Australia’s Murwillumbah where festival sponsors could not justify spending an additional $10,000 to plan traffic control measures and install anti-terrorist barriers along the parade’s...
by Liz Karson | Aug 15, 2019 | Security Bollards
In order to protect visitors to the country’s gambling mecca, Las Vegas is installing thousands of perimeter security bollards to sidewalks along the Strip. This to protect pedestrians from cars and trucks that may veer off the roadway. It is also meant to...
by Liz Karson | Aug 13, 2019 | Automated Slide Gates
Last summer ECI completed an extensive project in a Vernon Hills, IL location. ECI furnished and installed a slide gate operator (green box pictured above) as well as the vehicle detector loops (see foreground of image below for greater detail) and the concrete saw...
