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Residential Gated Communities | Additional Considerations

by Liz Karson | Feb 13, 2020 | Residential Gated Community

As you must know by now, ECI provides security equipment for many residential gated communities in the greater Chicago area. I have written several times about the equipment which includes barrier gates, guard booths and shelters, access control, automatic vehicle and...

I Was Daydreaming About Residential Gated Communities

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...

New Barrier Gates for Inverness Gated Residential Community

by Liz Karson | Aug 1, 2019 | Residential Gated Community

ECI recently completed an installation that increases both vehicle security access as well as egress for a residential gated community in Inverness, IL. The image below shows two well worn barrier gates adjacent to the guard house at the entrance to Inverness on the...

Telephone Entry System | Access Control for Gated Community

by Liz Karson | Jul 16, 2019 | Residential Gated Community

The entryway is the first impression many see leading to this gated area in a Fox Lake, IL residential community. It was in dire need of upgrading and some tender loving attention and care. Pictured to the left is the ‘after’ look and pictured below and to...

Security Is A Primary Goal In Residential Gated Communities

by Liz Karson | Apr 4, 2019 | Residential Gated Community

Capital Business offered some of its pluses and minuses of living in a residential gated community in an older article titled “The Pros and Cons of Gated Communities #PropertyInsights”. Security was at the top of the positives. The article defines a...

Gated Residential Communities | Secure Communities | US Census

by Liz Karson | Feb 26, 2019 | Residential Gated Community

I recently found the “American Housing Survey: 2009” from the United States by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and U.S. Census Bureau. It is a best guess estimate of residential gated communities statistics since most communities are...
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