Over the years, Tate have been installing and maintaining gate release systems into Football, Cricket and Rugby stadia with great success. These feedback to the operator through graphical representation screens enabling the operator to release individual, global areas and the full stadium. The system can be linked to the fire alarm to either open automatically on fire detection, or to alert the operator to release on the click of a button.
Version 2 (PLC) - Stadium Gate Release
Introduced in the early 2000, this was the fore runner to the currently installed version. This improved the controllability, and introduced the front end to windows. Controlling was was taken away from the computer allowing for continual running in the unfortunate event of the computer failure. Battery backed controlling processor ensures the system is running continously under power failure conditions.
Version 1 (MS-Dos) – Stadium Gate Release
This was the first revision which is still being utilised to day in some stadiums. Based on the Computer controlling the gate release cards. This has been around since the early 90′s, and has served the industry well. However, technology has improved and these are now being updated with our latest Version 3. This has now gone into maintenance mode, and can no longer be updated.
Version 3 (Web Browsing) – Stadium Gate Release
First introduced in to Liverpool FC, this has allowed replacement of both Version 1 & 2 front ends. Allowing the operator the full facilities of either a PLC gate control unit or the existing gate control cards, together with web sharing, therefore can be viewed on the stadiums ethernet. This is password protected and enables users to view change the settings remotely without actually visiting the master computer.
