Do you only use the gates when it’s raining? How stupid is this?

Whenever possible just go through the manned gate wave and go. No need to burnout window motors. The gates may serve some purpose but we are not a gated community. Why not do away with the cards and just have gate open when we pull up? Save money.

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Never a fan of red button. How safe are we when anyone can access our neighborhood by pressing a button?? I wish everyone had to use a gate card, but probably not feasible.

The concept of a resident and visitor gate here in TV adds no value of any kind.....except eye wash!

.......thinking out loud....the visitor lane should have to push the red button...a sensor could easily determine when the gate goes up vs resident lane......gate attendants involvement not required (for race starts).

If our existing card will still work, why won't an exact clone in a car mirror still work? How do a card and a clone differ?

Thousands and Thousands of visitors, contractors, etc., yes............Not feasible.

Hundreds of genuine gated communities would disagree.

How big of an issue is this in TV???

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We are not a gated community, so let them disagree all they want.

Rhetorical..........Where is there a comparable community....population, staffless gates, volume of visitors, volume of contractors, public streets?

But none of that even matters since the roads are owned by the county. You can't stop a non-resident from using those roads any more than the Villages could put a toll gate on I-75

Correct. But, as I understand it, gated communities assume ownership and maintenance for the roads within their gates. It is done with an agreement with the county.

The cards in use are made to a standard for how they operate. The reader (the 6 inch square panel on the pedestal) is constantly transmitting a "is there a card out there" signal. That tiny bit of RF energy is captured by the card, used to power up the card, and send out its long ID number. Card reader picks up that signal and sends that ID number to the gate controller computer to be processed. There are billions of numbers so security depends upon obscurity.

Then the gate controller computer compares that ID number to a list of all valid numbers in its database. If it finds that number, it opens the gate. A cloned card replies with the identical number as the original card, so everything else happens the same. We do not have the high security encrypted cards, those cannot be easily copied.

A lost card should (normally) be deactivated. Its ID is removed from the database, and if found will not match, so gate stays down. Any cloned cards also do not match and gate stays down.
Buy WHY? Since the red button allows anyone to enter, who cares what method is used to get past?

I wish the announcement was " To enhance to convenience for all residents, we will now allow any RFID card to open the gates. That includes all vehicle toll devices such as Ezpass. "
Which also begs the question... why don't the entry gates behave same as the exit gates? Overall same functionality, at a much lower cost.

Tha majority of those only have one (maybe two) main entrances. Stop and think how that would apply here.

So we can pay for maintenance twice……..

Please read the second bulleted item.