LOOPS & EXIT SENSORS · ATHENS
Vehicle Loop Detectors & Exit Sensors in Athens, TX
Vehicle loop detectors and exit sensors — free-exit loops, safety and shadow loops, and wireless probes for gravel drives — so the gate opens on the way out and never closes on a car. We work across Athens — Lake Athens, Oakwood, Southwood and the surrounding area.
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What this service covers.
Only the work we actually do — no padded list. If you are not sure whether your job fits, send a photo and we will tell you straight.
Free-exit loops and probes
Open the gate automatically for a vehicle leaving the property.
Safety and reversing loops
Keep the gate from closing on a vehicle in its path.
Shadow loops for swing gates
Hold the leaves while a vehicle sits in the swing area.
Concrete or gravel
Saw-cut loops in concrete, preformed or direct-burial loops or wireless probes on gravel.
BASED IN CORSICANA, TEXAS — 32.0954° N, 96.4689° W
Why people call about this.
You punch a code to leave
An exit loop or probe opens the gate for you.
The gate has closed on a vehicle
Safety loops are what stop that from happening again.
The gate opens by itself
Often a failing loop or a detector set too sensitive — fixable.
ATHENS, TX
Vehicle Loop Detectors & Exit Sensors in Athens: what’s different here.
Athens is the Henderson County seat, a town of about 12,900 people (2020 census) at the crossing of US-175, SH-31 and SH-19, roughly 60 miles southeast of Dallas. It calls itself the Black-Eyed Pea Capital of the World, is home to Trinity Valley Community College, and has the 1,800-acre Lake Athens on its east side, with Cedar Creek Lake to the northwest. The City of Athens requires a permit for any new or replacement fence (8-foot maximum, smooth side out along a right-of-way, and drive gates in side or rear fences need an approved drive approach and curb cut), and on Lake Athens the Athens Municipal Water Authority separately permits structures built on its shoreline property.
Gates & Operators in Athens
Inside Athens city limits a drive gate in a side or rear fence needs an approved drive approach and curb cut, so the gate width is planned around the concrete, while lake and wooded acreage properties outside town usually want a solar operator at a gate set back under the trees.
The ground
Athens sits where East Texas begins: sandy loam over dense clay subsoil, with deeper sands toward the east of the county and pines and hardwoods along the fence lines, so posts dig easily at the top but need concrete deep enough to bear on firm ground below the sand.
Homes and lots
Older bungalows and cottages near downtown, 1960s–1990s ranch houses in established subdivisions such as Southwood, lake homes on Lake Athens including the gated Oakwood community, and wooded acreage out on the county roads.
Neighborhoods we work in
- Lake Athens
- Oakwood
- Southwood
- Downtown & the courthouse square
- Trinity Valley Community College area
- US-175 corridor
- SH-19 acreage
- SH-31 toward Malakoff & Cedar Creek Lake
RELATED WORK
Often goes with this.
QUESTIONS
Vehicle Loop Detectors & Exit Sensors — things people ask.
CORSICANA, TEXAS — 32.0954° N, 96.4689° W
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