When Police , Fire & Rescue , and EMS units are responding to an emergency every second counts , whether it be a gate , parking arm , automatic barrier , or roll-up door protecting a residential or commercial property , a parking garage , airport , government , or military facility .
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As a nation , we have put up more and more fences and gates to protect ourselves and our properties .
These barriers have presented obstacles to our emergency responders and increased the time it takes for them to respond .
To reduce response time Siren Operated Sensor ( SOS ) has been committed for the last 40 years to getting emergency responders through gates faster .
The original SOS gate trigger identifies the “ Yelp ” tone of an emergency vehicle and opens the gate . In the past keys or codes were the only way to open a gate .
Brookhaven Police Chief Gary Yandura
After the Siren Operated Sensor came onto the market other systems joined in , and as a group , these new systems provided a faster response in an emergency with
no need to stop and
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