Not every opening on a property is a gate. It's the mullion door into a leasing office, the mechanical room a vendor needs twice a year, or the elevator that has to stop only on the floors a resident is actually allowed to reach. Those openings usually already have wire run to them — and pulling that wire back out just to install a wireless keypad would be a waste of a perfectly good conduit run.

We install and service access control across St. Petersburg, Tampa, Bradenton, and Sarasota, and one of the most common calls we get is from a property that has OmniPoint® covering its gates but still has a handful of wired doors nobody's tied into the system. That's exactly the gap CellGate's Entría™ line was built to close.

Person entering a code on a CellGate Entría keypad controller mounted beside a glass office entry door
An Entría Single Door Controller at a mullion-mounted office entry — keypad, credential reader, and controller in one unit.

Wired where you have it

CellGate's promise is Total Property Security Access: wireless when you need it, wired where you have it. OmniPoint handles the wireless side — gates, amenities, anything without existing cable. Entría is the wired half. It's a family of hardwired door and elevator controllers that plug into the same TrueCloud Connect™ platform, the same credential system, and the same visitor passes as everything else on the property, so your office isn't managing two separate systems with two separate rulebooks.

The line covers the doors most properties actually have:

Resident tapping a key card credential on a CellGate Entría reader mounted on a brick building exterior
Entría readers accept key cards and fobs alongside the keypad — useful for staff and residents who'd rather badge in than type a code.

The doors people forget to secure

Front gates get attention because everyone drives through them. It's the second-tier doors — pool bathrooms, bike storage, the leasing office after hours, a loading dock — that quietly stay on a shared code nobody's changed since the property opened. Entría brings those onto the same self-expiring credential system as the front gate: a QR or PIN pass through the CellGate app, a scheduled code for a cleaning crew, or a card that only works during business hours. When a lease ends or a vendor contract wraps up, access ends with it — no rekeying, no chasing down a physical key.

Elevators need their own kind of control

Multifamily and commercial buildings with controlled-access elevators have a different problem: it's not just "can this person get in the lobby," it's "which floors can they reach once they're inside." An Entría elevator controller ties into the cab's floor-selection wiring so a resident's credential only unlocks the buttons for their own floor and any shared amenity levels — the gym, the rooftop deck, the parking level. A guest let in with a visitor pass gets exactly the floors they're supposed to have, nothing more.

Visitor scanning a QR code visitor pass on a CellGate reader inside an elevator cab to select an authorized floor
A visitor pass scanned inside the cab authorizes floor access the same way it authorizes a gate — logged, and set to expire.

Field Note

Most of the properties we wire Entría into aren't starting from scratch — they've already got an OmniPoint gateway running the gates and amenities. Adding Entría at the wired doors takes those openings from "a key someone might lose" to a controller reporting into the same TrueCloud Connect™ dashboard your office already checks every morning. One login, one credential list, one set of logs for the whole property.

Enclosed vs. exposed — we pick based on the door

Entría's Single Door Controller ships in a few form factors: a compact enclosed unit for a standard frame, and the mullion version for narrow glass-door applications like an office lobby or a retail entrance. We walk the property first and match the controller to the door instead of forcing one hardware style everywhere — a mechanical room needs a different footprint than a glass storefront entrance.

CellGate Entría Four Door Controller enclosure and Single Door Controller side by side, showing internal wiring terminals
The E4DC panel (left) manages up to four doors from a single enclosure — useful for clustered openings like a mechanical corridor.

One system, not two

The point of Entría isn't that wired access control is better or worse than wireless — it's that a property rarely gets to choose only one. Gates and amenities spread out and go wireless with OmniPoint. Doors and elevators that already have conduit run to them stay wired with Entría. Both report into the same TrueCloud Connect account, use the same visitor passes, and show up in the same entry log, so whoever's running the property isn't stuck checking two different apps to know who came and went.

That's Total Property Security Access in practice: wireless where you need it, wired where you have it, managed as one system either way. If you've got an OmniPoint system on the gates and a few wired doors still running on old codes or a physical key, that's usually a same-day fix — we can walk the property, spec the right Entría controllers, and get everything reporting to one dashboard.

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