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General information / glossary – Controlled Products Systems Group 6400-080 User Manual

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general information / glossary

GATE –

A moving barrier such as a swinging, sliding, raising, lowering, or the like, barrier, that is a

stand-alone passage barrier or is that portion of a wall or fence system that controls entrance and/or
egress by persons or vehicles and completes the perimeter of a defi ned area.

RESIDENTIAL VEHICULAR OPERATOR-CLASS –

A vehicular gate operator (or system)

intended for use in a home of one-to four single family dwelling, or garage or parking area associated
therewith.

COMMERCIAL / GENERAL ACCESS VEHICULAR OPERATOR-CLASS II –

A vehicular

gate operator (or system) intended for use in a commercial location or building such as a multi-family
housing unit (fi ve or more single family units), hotels, garages, retail store, or other building servicing
the general public.

INDUSTRIAL / LIMITED ACCESS VEHICULAR OPERATOR-CLASS III –

A vehicular

gate operator (or system) intended for use in an industrial location or building such as a factory or
loading dock area or other locations not intended to service the general public.

RESTRICTED ACCESS VEHICULAR OPERATOR-CLASS IV –

A vehicular gate operator

(or system) intended for use in a guarded industrial location or building such as an airport security area
or other restricted access locations not servicing the general public, in which unauthorized access is
prevented via supervision by security personnel.

VEHICULAR BARRIER (ARM) OPERATOR (OR SYSTEM) –

An operator (or system) that

controls a cantilever type device (or system), consisting of a mechanical arm or barrier that moves in a
vertical arc, intended for vehicular traffi

c fl ow at entrances or exits to areas such as parking garages, lots

or toll areas.

VEHICULAR HORIZONTAL SLIDE-GATE OPERATOR (OR SYSTEM) –

A vehicular gate

operator (or system) that controls a gate which slides in a horizontal direction that is intended for use for
vehicular entrance and exit to a drive, parking lot, or the like.

VEHICULAR SWING-GATE OPERATOR (OR SYSTEM) –

A vehicular gate operator (or

system) that controls a gate which moves in an arc in a horizontal plane that is intended for use for
vehicular entrance and exit to a drive, parking lot, or the like.

SYSTEM –

In the context of these requirements, a system refers to a group of interacting devices

intended to perform a common function.

WIRED CONTROL –

A control implemented in a form of fi xed physical interconnections between

the control, the associated devices, and an operator to perform predetermined functions in response to
input signals.

WIRELESS CONTROL –

A control implemented in means other than fi xed physical interconnections

(such as radio waves or infrared beams) between the control, the associated devices, and an operator to
perform predetermined functions in response to input signals.

INHERENT ENTRAPMENT SENSOR SYSTEM –

An automatic sensor system that senses

entrapment of a solid object and is incorporated as a permanent and integral part of the operator.

EXTERNAL ENTRAPMENT PROTECTION DEVICE –

A device, examples being an edge

sensor, a photoelectric sensor, or similar entrapment protection device, which provides protection
against entrapment when activated and is not incorporated as a permanent part of an operator.

ENTRAPMENT –

The condition when an object is caught or held in a position that increases the risk

of injury.