Boom barriers manage traffic. Road blockers stop vehicles. Choosing the wrong one is either an unnecessary cost or a serious security gap.
Boom barriers: traffic discipline
Electromechanical boom barriers open in 1.5 to 6 seconds and integrate with RFID, ticketing or ANPR. They are the right choice for parking entries, campuses and apartment gates where the goal is orderly flow, not physical resistance.
Road blockers and bollards: physical denial
Where a vehicle must be physically stopped — banks, data centres, government buildings, fuel depots — hydraulic road blockers and rising bollards are specified. They carry crash ratings and need proper civil work and drainage.
Integration is where projects go wrong
Loop detectors, interlocks with the gate, fail-safe behaviour on power loss and emergency-vehicle override all need to be agreed before installation. We document the sequence and test it at handover.
- boom barrier
- road blocker
- security