Automatic Barriers Improve Safety and Optimise Spaces
Garages and car parks with vehicle entry barriers ensure security and privacy. But they also enable better occupancy management and operation using new technologies such as license plate readers and access cards, in addition to other benefits.
Automatic barriers ensure the privacy of garages and car parks, preventing access by external vehicles. “But, also, if we integrate new opening technologies with mobile devices, these barriers can become a control system for optimising car park occupancy management,” explains Boris Escandell, of Nayar Systems’ Projects Department.
Access control systems using mobile devices are becoming increasingly important, for convenience and ease of installation in all types of garage doors and access barriers. “As well as allowing us to know how many vehicles come in and out, with these systems we can monitor a car park’s occupancy level at any time, and optionally know which cars have used it. This is a functionality,” Escandell points out, “that you don’t get with traditional systems, either with keys or remote controls.”
Wide Entrances
Juan Carlos Erauso is Erreka’s Marketing Manager. He also highlights the fact that automatic barriers enable vehicle access control “in environments where the space they control does not require the installation of a door.” Their advantages over automatic doors lie in simplicity, ease of installation, and lower cost in this expert's opinion. “These barriers can cover entrances up to 12 metres wide (for example, by installing two six-metre barriers), and open much faster than any other type of automation system.” The mounting posts can be fitted with LED lights, to allow them to “work like traffic lights.”
Erauso explains that barriers generally work together with other opening devices, “such as toll systems on motorways and public car parks, and access control using devices like remote controls, cards, and proximity keys equipped with anti-passback features.” And he points out that the latter feature means that “the control system won’t allow a vehicle to enter unless it has previously left, preventing fraud.”