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Argus opens the gate by reading the plate of every authorized vehicle: a resident's and, if your community turns it on, that of a visitor, vendor or staff member with a pass. Nobody stops or waits for a call, and the line keeps moving. People on foot use a QR or a code. Everything is logged, and it keeps working when the internet goes down.
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Three ways in
By car, the plate is the credential, whether it's the resident's own or, if your community turns it on, the one on a pass for a visitor, a vendor or household staff. The QR pass and the 8-digit code are for people on foot, for cars without a plate on the pass, or as a backup. The guard house checks and logs every entry.
The lane cameras read the plate and the gate opens without the car stopping. That works for residents' cars and, if your community turns it on, for any car whose visitor, vendor or staff pass carries its plate. No cards or remotes.
A resident's vehicle has to be approved first. A visitor's opens the gate only while the pass is valid.
The resident creates the pass on their phone and sends it to their visitor on WhatsApp. On foot, or in a car without a plate on the pass, the fixed lane reader scans the QR.
Single use, multiple uses or indefinite, with a schedule if needed.
Every pass also carries a code the visitor types on the lane keypad, in case the QR isn't at hand.
Codes lock after repeated wrong attempts.
Features
Everything here aims to make getting in easy for everyone, from the people who live there to the guard at the gate. Each feature replaces something that's done today with lines, calls or paper.
The goal is that nobody has to stop. Plates open the gate, visitors arrive with a pass and the guard house stops calling homes, so the lane keeps moving even at rush hour.
The gate opens when it reads the plate of a resident's registered vehicle and, if your community turns it on, of a visitor, vendor or staff member whose pass carries it.
One reads the front plate and one the rear, so a read doesn't hinge on a single plate or on the light.
Several entrances, vehicle and pedestrian lanes, in and out, each with its own methods.
For people on foot or cars without a plate on the pass. The reader scans the QR, or the visitor types the code.
For a visit, a week-long job or household staff, with days and hours if needed.
If someone arrives without a pass, the household approves or declines on WhatsApp. The first answer counts.
For an ambulance or a locksmith. The guard house accepts them instantly, even offline.
On the tablet or the guard's own phone, with every lane live and who's expected. Opening takes a tap and a reason.
Each guard house has its own permissions, which Argus sets up with the board: open, issue passes or approve visitors.
Management opens a lane from the dashboard, and every opening is logged with its reason.
One click per lane, and the guard decides each entry until you turn it back on.
The guard house decides from its local copy for as long as the board allows, up to 7 days.
Today's tags, remotes and buttons keep working. If Argus switches off, the gate works like it always has.
Every pass carries a digital signature the guard house checks, even offline.
The guard-house computer, cameras and network sit behind a UPS.
Every entry, denial and opening, with its read and its pass. Filter by date, lane, home or result.
The log and the rosters, ready to review in Excel or take to the assembly.
Import homes and vehicles and preview every row first. It never sends invitations on its own.
For all site staff who sign in to the dashboard.
A plate opens the gate on its own only if its household agreed, and Argus records who agreed, when and how.
Residents see their own home, and management sees its community.
Everyone uses Argus in their language: dashboard, portal, passes and messages.
Your community, your club and your office, in the same app.
Passes
Create a pass from your phone in a minute and send it over WhatsApp. Whoever gets it installs nothing and comes in with their plate, the QR or their code. There are passes for visitors and for the staff who work in your home.
Single use
It's good for one entry. Once it's used it stops working, so there's no stray pass floating around.
Multiple uses
You choose how many entries and between which dates. If the work runs long, extend it by a day or a week from your phone.
Indefinite
It has no end date. It stays valid until you cancel it, so there's nothing to renew each week and no need to call the guard house.
You can give the pass days and hours, say Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 8 am to 3 pm. Outside those hours it doesn't open.
Add the car's plate to the pass and the gate opens when it reads it, if your community has that turned on. If not, they come in with the QR or by typing their code.
The pass is a link you forward on WhatsApp. Neither you nor your visitor downloads another app.
Edit, cancel or extend a pass whenever you like. Management can create any pass and sets the limits on days and entries for residents' passes.
For everyone
Your visitors get in with their plate or a QR, without a line. Staff and vendors arrive with a pass that already has their hours on it, and guards make fewer calls. Pick who you are and see what changes for you.
Residents
Your plate is your credential. You create your visitors' passes from your phone and send them over WhatsApp, with no extra app to download. No smartphone? Your plate opens the gate anyway.
The gate opens when it reads your plate, in any entry lane. No tag or remote needed.
Add the members of your household and register your vehicles. Management approves each one.
Create a pass from your phone and send it over WhatsApp. If it carries their plate and your community has that turned on, the gate opens on its own.
An indefinite pass for whoever works in your home, with their days and hours. It's valid until you cancel it.
If someone arrives without a pass, you decide with a tap. The household's first answer counts.
See who arrived at your home, when and with which pass, and get a WhatsApp notice.
Coming soon: emergency passes the guard house accepts instantly, even offline.
People who walk in use the QR or the 8-digit code at the pedestrian gate.
HOA board and management
A web dashboard brings together homes, residents, vehicles, passes and the access log, with permissions for each member of the site staff.
| Time | Kind | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 6:42 pm | Plate | Opened |
| 6:39 pm | QR pass | Opened |
| 6:35 pm | Guard | Manual |
| 6:31 pm | Plate | To guard |
| 6:02 pm | QR pass | Denied |
Import homes and vehicles from Excel or Google Sheets, review the preview and confirm.
Live monitoring of entries, denials and openings, with each one's read and pass.
Filter by date, lane, home or result and export to CSV whatever you need to review.
Open remotely or pause a lane's automatic opening, always with a reason.
Invite site staff as Admin, Guard or Read-only. They sign in with two-step verification.
Record each household's consent. Without it, their plate doesn't open the gate on its own.
A summary of entries, denials and openings for any period, ready to export.
You set the limits on days and entries for passes, whether visitors' plates open the gate and how long access runs without internet.
Before and after
Things handled today with calls and paper get automated and logged.
A line at the gate at rush hour
Plates open the gate for registered vehicles and, if your community turns it on, for visitors whose pass carries one, so nobody stops and the line keeps moving.
Calls to the house that nobody answers
Every adult in the household gets the notice on their phone, and the answer reaches the guard house.
A logbook nobody reads
Every entry, denial and manual opening is recorded with time, lane and who was responsible.
Borrowed remotes and cards
Passes have dates and a number of entries, or stay valid until the resident cancels them from their phone.
Built for a real guard house
Decisions are made by a computer inside the guard house, not in the cloud. If the connection drops, residents and passes already issued keep getting in.
Registered plates and synced passes keep working. The board sets the limit, and after it the guard house switches to manual opening.
The guard-house computer, cameras and network sit behind a UPS to ride through short power cuts.
Argus connects in parallel to the gate's open input, never bypasses safety sensors and never repeats an open command.
What we install
Argus is installed on top of your current entrance. The gate, its operator and your guards stay the same.
Dedicated cameras per lane, tuned for reading plates by day and by night.
It decides on site, keeps what it needs to run without internet and sits on a UPS.
A relay wired in parallel to the operator's open input, without touching its safety sensors.
The guard-house app, with each lane, the decisions and the notices to houses.
A fixed scanner in the visitor lane to read passes from the car.
We install, configure and look after the equipment, remotely and on site.
How we start
Plate reading adds to what's already there without taking space in the lanes. Each stage moves on only when the previous one delivers, and the board decides with data from its own entrance.
We install the cameras and the guard-house computer. For a few days Argus only observes, reading and logging plates without opening, while we test each lane with the gate company.
For about two weeks, plates open the gate on both lanes for just a few vehicles: community staff and the people running the pilot.
Each home gives its plates to the board, with its consent, and we register them in groups. Nobody installs anything or creates an account. One day you pull up and the gate just opens.
Once plates work, each home manages its household and visitors. QR passes and keypads come last, and replace what's there today only with the board's agreement.
There's an installation fee, a monthly fee per home and a site minimum. The amounts depend on the homes, lanes and equipment, so we give them in a proposal after visiting the entrance.
Less. Registered residents drive straight in and visitors with passes come in through the reader or, if your community turns it on, by plate. Guards handle only the visitors without a pass, with a tap on the tablet instead of a call to the house.
Their plate works the same, no phone needed. Management can create any pass that's needed, and other household members can create passes and get the notices. Guards can still open manually, with a reason.
The guard house keeps deciding with what it already has. Registered plates and synced passes work for up to 7 days offline, and the board can adjust that limit. Only new passes have to wait for the connection, and until it's back the guard opens manually with a reason.
Your entrance goes back to working as it does today, since Argus connects in parallel to the gate without replacing its controls. The community can export its log whenever it wants.
Registered plates, both residents' and the ones on visitors' passes, are used to open the gate for them. Reads and images of non-resident vehicles are kept only as long as the privacy notice states. They are never sold or shared.
Your next step
We visit your guard house, review the lanes and the gate, and bring the board a proposal with the installation plan.
