Here's the call we get all the time: a property has a front gate wired up and working, but there's a back pedestrian gate, a pool entrance, or a rear delivery gate sitting a couple hundred feet away that nobody can secure. The reason is almost never the hardware — it's the trench. Running conduit and cable across a parking lot or a landscaped courtyard can cost more than the gate operator itself, and on some sites there's simply no clean path to dig.
We install and service access control across St. Petersburg, Tampa, Bradenton, and Sarasota, and that stranded-gate problem is exactly what CellGate's OmniPoint® — Wireless Multipoint Access Control — was built to solve. Instead of pulling wire back to a central panel, OmniPoint puts the whole property on one wireless network and skips the trench entirely.
How OmniPoint actually works
There are two pieces to understand. The first is the Gateway — a single hub that mounts up high, usually on a rooftop, and handles the property's connection to the cloud over cellular or internet. The second is the EPM (Entry Point Module): a small wireless unit installed at each gate, door, or amenity that talks back to the Gateway. Power and a credential reader at the entry point, a radio link to the roof — no home-run cable in between.
The numbers are what make it practical for a real property. One Gateway reaches EPMs up to roughly a mile away and can manage up to 50 entry points. That means a sprawling apartment community, an HOA with scattered amenities, or a multi-building commercial park can run on a single system instead of a patchwork of separate panels and phone lines.
The entry points that usually get skipped
Front gates get secured because everyone uses them. It's the second-tier openings that get left on a lockbox or a code nobody's changed in years — and those are usually the exact ones a trench would be too expensive to reach. OmniPoint is built for them:
- Pool and amenity gates — often the farthest thing from the equipment room, and the hardest to wire
- Rear and pedestrian gates — a side entrance that never got controlled because cable was a non-starter
- Detached buildings — a clubhouse, mail kiosk, or dog park across the property
- Temporary or phased sites — construction entrances and new sections you'll expand into later
One property, one dashboard
Because every EPM reports back to the same Gateway, the whole property lives in one TrueCloud Connect™ account. Your office manages one credential list, issues QR and PIN visitor passes that work at any entry point, and pulls one entry log for the entire site. A resident who moves out gets removed once and loses access everywhere. A cleaning crew gets a pass that expires on its own. There's no walking gate to gate to reprogram codes.
Field Note
The biggest install savings with OmniPoint isn't the hardware — it's the labor and the concrete we don't touch. When a back gate would need a few hundred feet of trenched conduit to reach, the wireless EPM often pays for itself before we've dug a single foot. And if you later add a gate, it's another EPM on the same Gateway, not a new cable run.
Wireless when you need it, wired where you have it
CellGate's promise is Total Property Security Access: wireless when you need it, wired where you have it. OmniPoint is the wireless half — it covers the gates and amenities where cable doesn't make sense. Where a property already has conduit run, like elevators and interior doors, CellGate's Entría™ controllers handle the wired side and report into the same platform. You don't have to pick one philosophy for the whole property; you match the method to each opening and manage it all as one system.
If you've got a gate or an amenity that never got secured because wiring it looked impossible, that's usually a straightforward fix. We'll walk the property, check the line of sight for the Gateway, and spec the EPMs you actually need — installed by the technician who does the work.
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