by Liz Karson | Jan 24, 2022 | Slide Gate Operators
ECI supplied and installed this Doorking slide gate operator at the dock gate of the University of Chicago’s Rubenstein Building. The gate operator is shown in the center of the image above on a concrete pad. A Vehicle detection loop senses a vehicle as it...
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 | Jun 7, 2018 | Automated Slide Gates
Last month I discussed “Protection Against Entrapment In A Sliding Gate Installation”. There are three possible areas (or zones) where people can be trapped on the interior, or owner, side of the sliding gate during the gate operation. (Read the article...
by Liz Karson | May 29, 2018 | Perimeter Security Vehicle Protection
Previously I have written about gate security applications and protecting the entrapment zones three times. The most recent article focused on perimeter barrier gates. Before that I wrote on double swing gate systems and the first blog article centered on single swing...
by Liz Karson | May 3, 2018 | Automatic Barrier Gates
I previously wrote two articles about entrapment zones for gate security applications. The most recent focused on double swing gate systems and the first one centered on single swing gates. In this article I want to discuss the single entrapment area that requires...
