Automatic and manual boom gates, hydraulic bollards, and spike barriers for commercial, industrial, and estate facilities — supplied, installed, and integrated with your access control system by IDS.
No obligation · Access control integration · 25+ Years in Business
An open entrance with no vehicle barrier is an invitation. A boom gate creates a hard physical control point. IDS installs boom gates and vehicle barriers that integrate with your access control system — so every vehicle entry is logged, authorised, and traceable.
Without a physical barrier, any vehicle can access your property at any time.
Boom gate remotes have no audit trail — you do not know who opened the gate or when.
Vehicle and pedestrian access on separate systems means no single record of site entry.
IDS supplies and installs automatic boom gates, hydraulic bollards, and spike barriers — integrated with ZKTeco biometric or card readers so every vehicle access event is logged and your entire entrance is managed from one system.
Fast-operating automatic boom gates for commercial, industrial, and estate vehicle entrances. Integrated with access control for a full entry log.
Manual boom gates for lower-traffic or guard-controlled access points. Robust, low-maintenance vehicle control.
Hydraulic rising bollards for high-security vehicle access points where a higher level of physical control is required.
One-way spike barriers and tyre killers for controlled one-directional vehicle flow at commercial and industrial sites.
All boom gates and barriers can be integrated with ZKTeco biometric readers, RFID card readers, or intercom systems — creating a single logged access record.
IDS installs combined vehicle and pedestrian access points — boom gate and turnstile at the same entrance, managed from one platform.
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— Donavan Driver, Director, IDS (Pty) Ltd
Commercial & Industrial Facilities
Residential Estates & Complexes
Government & Municipal Sites
Warehouses & Logistics Parks
"IDS made the integration of time and attendance management with access control features absolutely seamless. Saving us time and providing advanced security. Highly recommended!"
Johnathan S.
Small Business Owner
"Your recommendations made managing our workforce a breeze. The biometric access system is efficient and secure, and the comprehensive reporting helps us optimise staffing patterns."
Alex M.
Operations Director
"The best decision I made as a facility manager. User-friendly interface and customisable access levels improved security, and integration with our timekeeping software streamlined payroll."
Michael B.
Facility Manager
"Impressed! The biometric time and attendance features have put an end to buddy punching, and their exceptional customer service provided personalised solutions. Definitely recommended!"
Kevin T.
Warehouse Manager
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Let us help you build your solution. IDS will assess your vehicle entrance requirements and provide a written quote.
Tell us about your vehicle entrance and we'll recommend the right barrier solution. No obligation.
Vehicle access control decides which vehicles enter a site and creates a record of when they did. The equipment ranges from a simple automatic boom on a staff parking entrance through to hostile-vehicle mitigation with hydraulic bollards and road blockers. IDS supplies and installs automatic and manual boom gates, hydraulic and fixed bollards, and spike barriers, integrated with the same access control database used for pedestrian doors.
Boom gates are the default for parking entrances, office parks, estates, depots and industrial yards. They are chosen by lane width and duty cycle: a barrier serving a busy shopping-centre entrance opens thousands of times a day and needs a high-duty motor, while an estate side gate does a fraction of that. Common credentials are long-range RFID windscreen tags, so residents and staff never open a window, plus keypad, intercom or licence-plate recognition for visitors.
Bollards and spike barriers do a different job. Hydraulic rising bollards physically stop a vehicle and are used where a boom would simply be driven through — embassies, data centres, cash-handling facilities and controlled pedestrian zones. Fixed bollards protect building frontages and pedestrian areas permanently. Spike barriers enforce direction of travel on exit lanes, preventing a vehicle from reversing in behind one that has just left.
What drives the price is the barrier type, the lane width, the duty cycle, the credential technology and the civil work. Civil work is usually underestimated: a boom needs a foundation, conduit under the road surface for loop detectors, and power reticulation to the lane. Safety loops and photocells that stop the boom coming down on a vehicle are standard on our installations, not an upsell. Backup power is specified according to how many operations the lane must complete during an outage.
Every installation is commissioned with the same discipline as a door: credentials enrolled, safety devices tested, manual release demonstrated, and an administrator trained. Boom gates and bollards run off the same access database as your doors and turnstiles, so one person record governs the parking entrance and the office door, and one deletion removes both.
Automatic boom gate lanes from R25,000 installed; hydraulic bollards quoted per site
An automatic boom gate lane including barrier, safety loops, reader integration and installation generally starts around R25,000, with civil work and backup power quoted separately. Hydraulic bollards and road blockers are project-specific.
Yes, when backup power is specified. Boom gates are low-voltage and run comfortably off a battery-backed supply or UPS, which is sized to the number of operations the lane performs per hour. A busy shopping-centre lane needs a much larger battery than an estate side gate. Every boom is also fitted with a manual release so the arm can be raised by hand if backup power is exhausted.
Long-range RFID windscreen tags are the most common because the boom opens as the vehicle approaches without the driver opening a window. Keypads, remote transmitters, intercoms and licence-plate recognition are also used, typically for visitors and deliveries. The same database that governs your doors governs the boom, so one enrolment covers both.
A boom gate manages traffic — it stops compliant drivers and records the movement, but a determined vehicle can drive through the arm. A hydraulic bollard is a physical barrier engineered to stop a vehicle. Booms are the right choice for parking and estate entrances; bollards belong where forced vehicle entry is a genuine risk, such as data centres, embassies and cash-handling facilities.
Safety loops buried in the road surface detect a vehicle under the arm and hold the boom up until the lane is clear. Photocells provide a second layer of detection across the lane. Both are standard on our installations rather than optional extras, and both are tested at commissioning and again at service visits.
