Physical boom barriers are useless for high-volume Indian gated communities
Vijay Arisetty · Building A Society Mantainance App For 4M+ Homes Ft Vijay Arisetty, Founder, MyGate · Aug 1, 2022 · at 18:46
Vijay Arisetty, founder and CEO of MyGate, argues against traditional physical boom barriers for managing residential community access in India.
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“What happens when you force with this kind of boom barriers and not least solutions? So you'll put a boom barrier. Boom barriers globally are designed only for, you know, two and a half feet to, I'll not say two and a half feet, probably four feet to five feet in the boom barrier length is four feet to five feet. And this four feet to five feet boom barrier, it just opens and then closes. The time to open and close is almost, you know, four to five seconds. Now just imagine if the length of the boom is increased, right? Just to open it, it'll take around because the length increases, it'll take more longer time to go up and longer time to come down and then the vehicle to pass, right? So given the traffic, right? When I say traffic, the number of people coming into these gated communities, right? Just imagine early morning when people are going to offices, just imagine the number of Ubers and Ulas and, you know, this office pickup, Cabs that are coming to pick up people from their homes, right? The volume is so high. Right? And now then what is the use of having a boom barrier, right? It takes up so much of operational hassle and, you know, maintenance and installation and all those things at the end of the day, it is not useful, right?”
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