LG Automatic Gates designs and installs intercom and access control systems for offices, multi tenant buildings, schools, and gated sites across San Jose and the surrounding cities. We listen first, we walk the site, we look at doors and gates, we ask who needs to go where. Then we recommend the simplest system that will work today and scale tomorrow. Key cards and fobs, mobile credentials, video intercom at the lobby, cloud dashboards, or a small local controller for a single door, we mix the right parts so your team can manage access without babysitting it. Competitors in San Jose tend to lead with long feature lists and bundle access control with alarms and cameras, which is fine, but clarity wins for customers who just want controlled entry that does not break. We take that approach, intentionally.
Perhaps you already have a manual gate and you are tired of hopping out of the car in the rain. Or you are planning new construction and want access control that looks great on day one and still looks great ten years from now. Either way, we can help.
We install and support leading platforms like HID, Keri, Brivo, Openpath, Salto, 2N, and similar tier one makers. For gate intercoms and multi tenant panels, 2N is a common fit, but we pair it with what your building needs. The point is not to push a single brand. The point is to match readers, controllers, and panels to your doors and to your IT standards. Industry roundups and Bay Area integrators highlight the same mix, because these are the systems that hold up in real buildings.
We are not trying to be everything in security. We are excellent at gates, doors, and the systems that control them. That tight focus means we know which electric strike behaves better on a stubborn aluminum frame, which mobile credential app your front desk will actually use, and how to keep a truck gate moving on a busy Monday morning. If we sound a touch opinionated, that is because we have fixed enough half done jobs to know what lasts.
What you can expect
Automatic Gate Installation, Residential and Commercial
We measure door frames, check hardware, and trace the cleanest cable routes.
Door by door line items, with choices, cloud or on premise, mobile or cards.
We stage hardware off site, arrive when the building is ready, and coordinate with management, IT, and the fire life safety vendor.
Readers, strikes, intercom calls, schedules, and remote unlock, all verified.
Credential policy, panel backups, wiring diagrams, and a service plan that matches your risk tolerance.
We offer same day or next day service windows in San Jose and the surrounding areas whenever possible, with scheduled preventive maintenance for higher traffic sites. Firmware updates, reader swaps, battery testing, and controller backups are part of that. The truth, most well built systems run quiet for months, until a door starts dragging or a power supply gets noisy. We prefer to catch those early. The better local integrators place heavy emphasis on post install support, and we stand in that camp.
San Jose, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, Mountain View, Palo Alto, Cupertino, Milpitas, Campbell, Los Gatos, Saratoga, Morgan Hill, Gilroy, Fremont, and nearby cities. Roundups of San Jose installers often widen the radius to capture realistic projects around the Valley, so we do the same, because real customers live across city lines.
Your Questions, Answered by Experts
Cloud is convenient, especially for distributed properties or if you want mobile credentials. On premise is still fine for a single site with stable users and solid IT practices. If you are not sure, we can run a small proof on one door and see how your team lives with it for a week. Local competitors frame the choice in a similar way, convenience versus local control, which is exactly the trade off.
Often yes. Many controllers accept mixed credentials, so you can keep cards for some users and roll phones to others. The caveat, some older readers will need an upgrade, and that decision comes down to the total cost compared to the convenience of remote issuance.
We use modern two wire solutions or IP based panels with PoE, sometimes with a small media converter if the existing copper is usable. When the distance is too long for PoE, we add power locally and carry data separately. It is not glamorous, it just prevents callbacks.
A single door, one day. A six door office with a lobby panel, three to five days. Larger sites, a week or two, usually staged so people can keep working. Service pages that rank well in San Jose offer similar timelines, which tracks with what we see in the field.
Readers continue to work, and schedules keep running, since logic lives at the controller. Remote unlock and video calls can be impacted if they rely on the cloud. We design for graceful degradation, then document it so no one is surprised.
Yes. We commonly link access events to video bookmarks and arm or disarm intrusion by schedule. If you already have those systems, we meet them where they live.
They are, when issued properly. Stronger than many legacy cards. If your policy or workforce prefers physical badges, that is fine too. We will not insist otherwise.
It helps, particularly when paired with a video intercom and clear visitor rules. Tracking people is not the goal. Reducing friction and risk is.