Enforced single passage
Tripod, flap and full height units allow one authorised movement at a time rather than only signalling that a rule was broken.
Access Control & Vehicle Barriers
One authorised movement at a time, on foot and on wheels.
- Categories
- 2
- Products
- 6
- Configurations
- 14
01Introduction
About access control & vehicle barriers
Access control is a layered problem. Vehicles are metered at the gate line, pedestrians at the door line, and each layer tolerates a different amount of delay and fails in a different way.
Pedestrian products are graded by physical resistance: flap barriers detect and deter at speed, tripod turnstiles enforce single passage mechanically, and full height turnstiles make an unsupervised line genuinely unclimbable. On the vehicle side, a boom barrier is a control device rather than a security barrier — it meters traffic and records movements, and it will not stop a determined vehicle. Bollards will.
Typical applications
- Factory and plant gate houses
- Corporate lobbies and IT campuses
- Transit, stadium and venue entries
- Data centres and restricted zones
- Car park entries and exits
- Public buildings and institutions
02Why
Why access control & vehicle barriers?
Graded resistance
The right layer for the risk: lane detection in a lobby, a mechanical rotor at a gate house, a fixed bollard at the vehicle line.
Integrates with your access system
Standard dry-contact and reader interfaces for cards, biometrics, QR and visitor management.
Defined fail state
Free-exit and emergency release behaviour is specified up front, so egress never depends on power.
03Categories
Grouped by how they actually work
A category here is a construction or operating principle — the level at which two products genuinely behave differently, rather than just being finished differently.
Pedestrian Access Control
Graded by physical resistance: detect and deter at lane speed, then enforce single passage mechanically, then make the line unclimbable.
Access Control
Tripod Turnstiles
Tripod turnstiles for controlled pedestrian entry at gate houses, staff entrances and transit points, with drop-arm emergency release.
2 configurations
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Access Control
Flap Barriers
Flap barrier lanes with retracting acrylic or glass wings for corporate lobbies and high-footfall entrances, including wide accessible lanes.
2 configurations
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Access Control
Full Height Turnstiles
Full height turnstiles in single and twin rotor configurations, for unsupervised perimeter entry points where over and under have to be impossible.
2 configurations
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Vehicle Access Control
Metering devices that regulate and record vehicle movement, and physical barriers where a decision has to be enforced rather than signalled.
Access Control
Bollards
Fixed, removable and automatic rising bollards for controlling vehicle access to entrances, plazas and restricted zones while pedestrians pass freely.
3 configurations
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Access Control
Boom Barriers
Automatic boom barriers for car park entries, plant gate houses and toll points, driven from loop detectors, readers, remotes or a gatehouse control.
3 configurations
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Access Control
Retractable Barriers
Retractable barrier systems that close a wide vehicle or pedestrian line and fold back into a compact stack when the route is open.
2 configurations
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04Compare
Side by side
What each product in this family is for, what it is built to survive, and whether we can publish a specification table for it today.
Tripod Turnstiles
- Category
- Pedestrian Access Control
- Environment
- internal, external, security
- Configurations
- 2
- Published fields
- 29 / 29
Flap Barriers
- Category
- Pedestrian Access Control
- Environment
- internal, security
- Configurations
- 2
- Published fields
- 29 / 29
Full Height Turnstiles
- Category
- Pedestrian Access Control
- Environment
- external, security
- Configurations
- 2
- Published fields
- 29 / 29
Bollards
- Category
- Vehicle Access Control
- Environment
- external, security
- Configurations
- 3
- Published fields
- 28 / 28
Boom Barriers
- Category
- Vehicle Access Control
- Environment
- external
- Configurations
- 3
- Published fields
- 28 / 28
Retractable Barriers
- Category
- Vehicle Access Control
- Environment
- external
- Configurations
- 2
- Published fields
- 28 / 28
05Performance considerations
What actually decides the specification
- 01
Peak throughput per lane, in people or vehicles per minute.
- 02
Whether the point is supervised or unsupervised — that is the tripod versus full height decision.
- 03
Physical resistance actually required, and whether the threat is casual or hostile.
- 04
Accessibility: at least one wide lane for wheelchair users, trolleys and luggage.
- 05
Escape strategy and what happens on alarm and on power loss.
- 06
The reader, credential and visitor system it has to interface with.
Industries served
- ManufacturingSeparating processes without slowing the material flow between them.
- Retail & CommercialFrontages that have to secure without going blank, and lobbies that have to flow.
- Infrastructure & TransitPeak-flow entries and perimeter points with nobody watching them.
- Warehousing & LogisticsEvery second an opening stands open is conditioned air and pedestrian risk.
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