Gated communities & HOAs
The future of gated community access. VecSpace AI's flagship LPR access control system, engineered for modern gated communities. Whitelisted vehicles trigger an automatic gate release, guests get temporary access, and emergency vehicles are recognized instantly.
Whitelisted vehicles are recognized on approach and the gate opens automatically, no stopping or rolling down windows.
Residents grant temporary whitelist access for friends and family right from the web portal.
The model is trained to identify state emergency vehicles and grant immediate, unimpeded access.
Granular access logs, a live 24/7 feed, instant intrusion alerts, and manual gate override in one dashboard.
Sentinel reads vehicle license plates and opens your existing gate for approved residents and guests. Your property manager controls access from one dashboard. All AI processing for plate recognition runs on the device installed at your gate.
Hardware kits start at $2,900 and are yours to keep. Installation is quoted separately because it varies from community to community. The managed service costs $99 a month on a 24-month agreement. In a 100-home community, that is about $0.99 per home each month for the service, or about $2.20 per home each month with the starting kit spread over the 24 months.
$2,900
Starting price of a hardware kit, which the community keeps
$99/mo
Managed service on a 24-month agreement
14-day
Money-back period at the start of the agreement
24 months
Plate read
<1s
Access
From plate read to authorized access
Any weather
Operates in rain, snow, or darkness at temperatures below 100°F
The comparison below covers common gate tasks and how Sentinel handles them. Sentinel adds cameras and a controller to your existing entrance.
Residents enter with their license plates. Existing remotes and keypads remain available as backups.
Access is authorized in under a second after a plate is read.
Guests approved in advance enter with a plate pass, which expires after its permitted use or time window.
Standard logging records each crossing with a plate photo. The board can use Privacy Mode to reduce or disable storage for approved resident vehicles.
Vendor and delivery access is issued and revoked in the dashboard, with an expiration time.
HOA admin accounts can add a visitor to the allow list with a name, license plate, start time, and expiry. When that vehicle arrives, the system checks the allow list and opens the gate if access is authorized.
Residents can also add entries from their own accounts. Those entries stay pending until an HOA admin approves them.
Enter the visitor's plate and name to create a pass in seconds. The gate opens for that vehicle while the pass is valid.
How a resident's guest pass moves through the system
Residents enter with their plates. Property managers manage access in the dashboard, and boards choose the logging and privacy settings.
Enter with a license plate without carrying a remote, entering a code, or installing an app.
Have guests approved before they arrive.
Use Privacy Mode, when the board enables it, to reduce or disable storage of data about their vehicles.
The residential demo shows the screens used to manage community access.
Add a barred former resident's vehicle or a known nuisance vehicle to a watchlist. The board receives an alert when a listed plate is detected at any gate.
Choose who receives notices about expected guests, camera faults, and gates that stop responding. Alerts are sent day and night.
HOA admin accounts can be given a manual open button in the portal. The account owner must sign the request with non-repudiation before the gate opens.
Sentinel is designed for communities that want to manage vehicle access through license plates, including:
30+
Gated communities with more than 30 homes
Every gate includes the Sentinel edge node, the cloud platform, and over-the-air model updates. The hardware kit is yours to keep, and the managed service is billed monthly on a 24-month agreement.
The same gate, online over cellular, with a live view around the clock.
Hardware is priced per gate. Installation is quoted per community and is not included in the kit price. After 24 months, service continues month to month at the same price, and you can cancel with 30 days' notice.
With the $2,900 starting kit and the $99/mo service, the first-year total is $4,088 plus installation, and the full 24-month total is $5,276 plus installation. The service alone is $1,188 a year.
In a 100-home community, the service is about $0.99 per home each month. With the kit spread over the 24 months, the total is about $2.20 per home each month. Your gate, lanes, and camera angles determine the exact kit and installation costs.
Totals use the Essential plan and exclude installation.
Send photos of your entrance to start the site assessment. There is no obligation to proceed.
We review your gate, camera angles, and wiring. There is no obligation to proceed.
We provide itemized pricing for the hardware, installation, and service.
After approval, we order the hardware, schedule installation, and handle permits. On-site work takes less than a day.
If the board isn't satisfied within this period, we remove the hardware at our cost and restore the gate.
The community version uses the same gate access control system with residential controls.
For the first communities, the engineering team that built the system manages the rollout personally. Your gate, lanes, and camera angles determine the kit and installation costs. The agreement begins with a 14-day money-back period.
License plate recognition reads a resident's or guest's plate, checks it against the approved list, and authorizes access in under a second after the read. The controller then triggers the existing gate.
Standard logging records each crossing with a plate photo. Residents can enter without a remote, code, or app.
Contact our sales team for an itemized quote or a live demonstration. Photos of your entrance are enough to start the site assessment.