In order to get power at the gate, which is about 1000ft from the house I added a dedicated meter. I’m pretty lucky that when this driveway was originally laid out there were 6 extra 2″ conduits installed all the way from the house to the street that I can use for data and control. I just got a 1000ft roll of 12 fiber single mode, plus 3000ft of shielded Cat6A.

Next up is to dig the footers for the gate and the control system. I’d like to have the control system automatically detect our cars and open the gate without interaction. Some kind of RF system should work for that… something to research. I considered putting an HID reader, and then I can add my friends HID cards (from their work, etc)…

I also need to figure out some kind of small fiber splice cabinet to terminate the fiber into, as well as to house a switch and few other things.