Description
The e-Loop Post Mount V4 is an advanced wireless vehicle detection system designed for automatic gates, boom gates and access control applications where installing a detector into the driveway is difficult, undesirable or simply not possible.
Unlike conventional inductive ground loops and surface-mounted vehicle detectors, the e-Loop Post Mount installs directly onto a gate post, wall or suitable structure beside the vehicle path. This eliminates the need to cut, drill or trench into the driveway while still providing reliable vehicle detection.
Combining magnetic field and radar sensing technology, three selectable operating modes, automatic calibration, secure encrypted wireless communication and battery-powered operation, the e-Loop Post Mount V4 provides an extremely flexible vehicle detection solution for both new and existing gate automation systems.
🚗 Vehicle Detection Without Ground Installation
The major advantage of the e-Loop Post Mount is that the vehicle detector does not need to be installed within the driveway.
Instead, the detector is mounted beside the vehicle path on a suitable:
- Gate post
- Fence post
- Wall
- Column
- Bollard
- Existing structure
This makes it an excellent solution where installing a conventional ground detector would be difficult or disruptive.
🚧 No Cutting, Drilling or Trenching Across the Driveway
Traditional inductive vehicle loops require a large loop to be saw-cut into the driveway, while many other vehicle detectors still require equipment to be physically mounted within the vehicle path.
The e-Loop Post Mount eliminates the need for either approach.
There is no requirement to:
- Saw-cut an induction loop into the driveway
- Install conventional loop wire
- Trench across the driveway
- Install a detector in the roadway
- Drill a mounting hole into the driveway
- Run detection cable across the vehicle path
This makes installation particularly attractive on completed or decorative driveway surfaces.
🛠️ Ideal for Existing Gate Installations
The Post Mount V4 has been specifically developed for retrofit applications and sites where ground installation is difficult.
It can be added to an existing automatic gate without extensive civil works around the driveway.
Typical retrofit applications include:
- Existing automatic gates
- Finished concrete driveways
- Decorative concrete
- Asphalt driveways
- Paved entrances
- Sites with underground utilities
- Commercial entrances
- Existing boom gates
- Access control upgrades
The detector can simply be mounted to an appropriate structure beside the vehicle path.
🧲 Dual Sensor Technology
The e-Loop Post Mount combines two vehicle detection technologies:
- Magnetic field detection
- Radar detection
The magnetic sensor detects changes in the surrounding magnetic field associated with a vehicle, while radar provides additional confirmation of vehicle movement and presence.
Combining these technologies allows the Post Mount to detect vehicles from beside the driveway rather than requiring the detector to be positioned directly underneath the vehicle.
📡 Radar Vehicle Detection
Radar technology allows the Post Mount to monitor the area adjacent to the detector and identify vehicle movement and presence.
This is particularly important for a post-mounted system because the detector is positioned beside the vehicle path rather than directly underneath the vehicle.
The combination of radar and magnetic detection provides a versatile platform for multiple vehicle detection applications.
🎛️ Three Operating Modes
The e-Loop Post Mount V4 provides three operating modes:
- Presence Mode
- Exit Mode
- Parking Mode
This allows the same detector to be configured for different vehicle detection applications depending on the requirements of the site.
The required mode can be selected during system commissioning.
🚪 Exit Mode
Exit Mode allows the e-Loop Post Mount to operate as an automatic vehicle free-exit detector.
When a vehicle approaches the detector from inside the property, the Post Mount identifies the vehicle and sends a wireless activation signal to the compatible transceiver.
The transceiver can then activate the opening input on the automatic gate controller.
This allows vehicles to exit without requiring the driver to:
- Use a remote control
- Enter a keypad code
- Present an access credential
- Press an exit button
- Contact security personnel
Exit Mode is ideal for sites where vehicle entry is controlled but vehicles should be able to leave automatically.
🅿️ Presence Mode
Presence Mode allows the Post Mount to monitor whether a vehicle remains within the detection area.
The combination of magnetic field and radar sensing allows the system to maintain vehicle detection according to the selected configuration.
Presence detection can be useful for applications such as:
- Holding an automatic gate open
- Holding a boom gate open
- Vehicle presence monitoring
- Access control
- Commercial vehicle entrances
- Preventing an automatic closing sequence while a vehicle remains detected
The exact operation depends on the configuration of the e-Loop system and the functionality available from the connected gate or access control controller.
🅿️ Parking Mode
The Post Mount V4 also provides a dedicated Parking Mode.
This additional operating mode expands the Post Mount beyond conventional gate activation and allows it to be used for suitable vehicle parking detection applications.
Parking Mode can be useful where the system needs to monitor a defined vehicle position rather than simply detecting an approaching vehicle.
The correct installation position and system configuration should be selected according to the requirements of the parking application.
📏 Up to 3m Line-of-Sight Detection
When correctly installed and configured, the Post Mount V4 can detect vehicles within an approximately 3 metre line-of-sight detection area.
This allows the detector to be positioned beside the vehicle path rather than directly underneath the vehicle.
Correct positioning is important to ensure that vehicles pass through the intended detection zone.
The actual detection area can be influenced by installation height, detector orientation, vehicle type and surrounding environment.
📐 Recommended Mounting Position
The Post Mount is designed to be mounted beside the vehicle path on a suitable vertical structure.
A typical installation positions the detector approximately 600mm above ground level.
The detector should be oriented towards the intended vehicle detection area and installed where passing vehicles can be reliably detected.
Correct positioning is particularly important when configuring:
- Exit detection
- Presence detection
- Parking detection
Installation should always follow the manufacturer’s positioning and calibration requirements.
⚡ Fast Installation
Because no roadway excavation is required, installation can be completed significantly faster than a traditional inductive ground loop.
The basic installation process involves:
- Selecting a suitable mounting location
- Mounting the detector to the post, wall or structure
- Pairing the detector with the compatible transceiver
- Selecting the required operating mode
- Configuring the detection area
- Calibrating the detector
- Testing vehicle detection
- Confirming correct gate operation
The Post Mount can be fully operational without cutting or trenching the driveway.
🔄 Intelligent Auto-Calibration
The e-Loop V4 platform incorporates intelligent automatic calibration to simplify installation and commissioning.
Once correctly positioned, the detector establishes its operating environment and calibrates the vehicle detection system.
This reduces the amount of manual adjustment normally associated with conventional vehicle detection equipment.
If the detector is repositioned or the installation environment changes significantly, the system should be recalibrated.
📱 Smartphone Setup & Configuration
The e-Loop V4 platform supports smartphone-based setup and configuration through the e-Loop Connect platform.
This provides installers with convenient access to system configuration during installation.
Smartphone-based configuration can assist with:
- Initial commissioning
- Operating mode selection
- Detector configuration
- Detection setup
- System diagnostics
- Battery monitoring
- Signal strength monitoring
- Device management
- Firmware management
This can significantly simplify installation and future servicing.
🩺 Built-In Diagnostics
The V4 platform incorporates built-in diagnostic capabilities to assist installers and service technicians.
Compatible smartphone diagnostics can provide useful information about the detector and wireless system without requiring extensive physical testing.
This can assist with identifying:
- Battery condition
- Wireless signal strength
- Detector status
- Configuration issues
- Communication issues
These diagnostic features can reduce troubleshooting time during installation and servicing.
🔄 Over-the-Air Firmware Updates
The V4 platform supports over-the-air firmware updates.
Compatible firmware improvements can be installed without replacing the vehicle detector or connecting specialised programming equipment.
This allows the V4 platform to receive future software enhancements while remaining installed at the site.
🔐 128-Bit AES Encrypted Communication
The e-Loop Post Mount uses secure 128-bit AES encrypted wireless communication.
This protects communication between the vehicle detector and compatible transceiver.
The V4 platform also incorporates replay attack protection, providing an additional layer of security against unauthorised duplication or retransmission of wireless commands.
These features are particularly important where wireless vehicle detection forms part of a property’s access control system.
📡 Up to 50m Wireless Range
The e-Loop Post Mount provides a wireless communication range of up to approximately 50 metres under suitable installation conditions.
This allows the compatible transceiver to be positioned at the gate operator or access control equipment without requiring a physical detection cable between the Post Mount and controller.
Actual wireless range can vary according to:
- Transceiver position
- Buildings and structures
- Metal objects
- Electrical interference
- Radio interference
- Installation environment
- Line of sight
The transceiver should be positioned to provide reliable communication with the detector.
🔋 Battery Powered
The e-Loop Post Mount is completely battery powered.
The detector uses:
- 2 x AA 1.5V lithium batteries
No external power cable needs to be installed between the gate operator and the Post Mount.
This is a major advantage for retrofit installations because the detector can be mounted on an existing structure without running power or signal cables across the site.
🔋 Up to 4 Years Battery Life
The current Post Mount platform provides battery life of up to approximately 4 years under suitable operating conditions.
Actual battery life depends on factors including:
- Operating mode
- Number of daily vehicle detections
- Detection duration
- Environmental conditions
- Wireless conditions
- System configuration
The batteries are replaceable, allowing the detector to remain installed when battery servicing is eventually required.
🧰 Easy Battery Replacement
The Post Mount has been designed to simplify future servicing.
Its replaceable AA lithium batteries can be accessed without removing the complete vehicle detection system from the site.
This makes routine battery maintenance straightforward and helps reduce long-term service costs.
🌧️ Designed for Outdoor Installation
The e-Loop Post Mount is designed specifically for permanent outdoor installation.
Its weather-resistant housing allows it to be installed on exposed gate posts, walls and structures adjacent to driveways and access points.
The detector is designed to withstand the environmental conditions normally encountered around automatic gate installations.
Correct mounting and installation remain important for reliable long-term operation.
🚙 Nothing Installed in the Vehicle Path
One of the major practical advantages of the Post Mount is that no detector is positioned underneath passing vehicles.
This means the detector is not routinely driven over by:
- Passenger vehicles
- Vans
- Delivery vehicles
- Trucks
- Trailers
- Service vehicles
For sites with frequent or heavy vehicle movements, keeping the detector completely outside the traffic path can provide a significant installation advantage.
🏗️ Ideal Where Underground Services Are Present
The Post Mount is particularly useful where underground services make driveway excavation undesirable.
Potential underground obstacles can include:
- Electrical conduits
- Water pipes
- Drainage
- Communications cables
- Irrigation systems
- Existing gate cabling
- Structural reinforcement
Because the detector mounts beside the driveway, there is no requirement to excavate the vehicle detection area.
✨ Ideal for Decorative Driveways
The Post Mount is also an excellent option where the appearance of the driveway needs to be preserved.
Traditional inductive loops can require substantial saw cuts through the finished driveway surface.
The Post Mount avoids this completely.
This makes it particularly suitable for:
- Decorative concrete
- Stencilled concrete
- Exposed aggregate
- Paved driveways
- Stone driveways
- Architectural entrances
- Premium residential properties
- Finished commercial developments
🚧 Excellent Retrofit Solution
The Post Mount V4 has been specifically designed to make vehicle detection easier to add to existing gate automation systems.
There is no need to disturb the existing road surface or install extensive underground cabling.
This makes it particularly suitable for:
- Existing automatic gates
- Existing boom gates
- Gate automation upgrades
- Access control upgrades
- Existing commercial entrances
- Finished residential driveways
- Sites where civil works need to be minimised
🏡 Residential Applications
The Post Mount can provide a clean and practical vehicle detection solution for residential automatic gates.
Typical residential applications include:
- Sliding driveway gates
- Swing driveway gates
- Automatic free-exit systems
- Gated properties
- Long private driveways
- Shared residential entrances
- Premium residential properties
Its post-mounted design is particularly useful where homeowners do not want the finished driveway cut or drilled.
🏢 Commercial Applications
The flexibility of the Post Mount also makes it suitable for many commercial vehicle detection applications.
Typical applications include:
- Commercial automatic gates
- Business entrances
- Staff car parks
- Boom gates
- Automatic barriers
- Shared access roads
- Vehicle exit points
- Parking detection
- Access control systems
🚦 Gate & Access Control Integration
The e-Loop Post Mount communicates wirelessly with a compatible transceiver connected to the gate, barrier or access control system.
The transceiver provides the interface between the wireless detector and the automation controller.
This allows the Post Mount to be integrated with many different gate automation systems where a suitable control input is available.
Applications can include:
- Sliding gate operators
- Swing gate operators
- Boom gates
- Automatic barriers
- Residential access control
- Commercial access control
- Vehicle free-exit systems
- Vehicle presence systems
⭐ Key Features
- Post-mounted wireless vehicle detector
- Latest e-Loop V4 platform
- Model ELOOP-V4.0
- No ground-mounted detector required
- No driveway saw cutting required
- No trenching required
- No loop wire required
- No detection cable across the driveway
- Mounts to gate posts, walls or suitable structures
- Dual sensor technology
- Magnetic field vehicle detection
- Radar vehicle detection
- Presence Mode
- Exit Mode
- Parking Mode
- Up to approximately 3m line-of-sight detection
- Typical mounting height approximately 600mm
- Intelligent automatic calibration
- Smartphone setup and configuration
- Built-in diagnostics
- Battery level monitoring
- Signal strength monitoring
- Over-the-air firmware updates
- 128-bit AES encrypted communication
- Replay attack protection
- Up to approximately 50m wireless range
- 2 x AA 1.5V lithium batteries
- Up to approximately 4 years battery life
- Replaceable batteries
- Weather-resistant outdoor construction
- Suitable for residential applications
- Suitable for commercial applications
- Ideal for existing gate installations
- Excellent for retrofit projects
- Ideal where road surfaces cannot be disturbed
🔧 Specifications
- Manufacturer: AES Global
- Product: e-Loop Post Mount
- Model: ELOOP-V4.0
- Version: V4.0
- Product Type: Post-Mounted Wireless Vehicle Detector
- Installation: Post / Wall / Structure Mount
- Ground Installation Required: No
- Detection Technology: Magnetic Field + Radar
- Operating Modes: Presence, Exit & Parking
- Approximate Detection Distance: Up to 3m Line of Sight
- Typical Mounting Height: Approximately 600mm
- Automatic Calibration: Yes
- Smartphone Configuration: Yes
- Built-In Diagnostics: Yes
- Over-the-Air Firmware Updates: Yes
- Communication: Wireless
- Encryption: 128-Bit AES
- Replay Attack Protection: Yes
- Maximum Wireless Range: Up to Approximately 50m
- Power Supply: Battery
- Battery Type: 2 x 1.5V AA Lithium
- Batteries Replaceable: Yes
- Maximum Battery Life: Up to Approximately 4 Years
- Suitable for Automatic Gates: Yes
- Suitable for Boom Gates: Yes
- Suitable for Access Control: Yes
- Suitable for Parking Detection: Yes
🔗 Compatibility
The e-Loop Post Mount V4 operates with a compatible e-Trans transceiver connected to the automatic gate, barrier or access control system.
Typical compatible applications include:
- Sliding gate operators
- Swing gate operators
- Boom gates
- Automatic barriers
- Residential gate automation
- Commercial gate automation
- Automatic free-exit systems
- Vehicle presence detection
- Parking detection
- Access control systems
Compatibility primarily depends on the connected automation controller having the appropriate input for the required function.
For automatic free-exit operation, the transceiver relay can be connected to a suitable opening input on the gate controller.
For Presence or Parking Mode applications, the controller and transceiver must be configured according to the required system operation.
⚠️ Please Note
The e-Loop Post Mount V4 requires a compatible e-Trans transceiver to interface with the automatic gate, boom gate or access control system.
Confirm whether the required transceiver is included with the selected product configuration or needs to be purchased separately.
Correct mounting position, mounting height and detector orientation are important for reliable vehicle detection.
The approximately 3m detection distance is dependent on correct installation, vehicle type, detector orientation and site conditions.
The stated wireless range is a maximum figure under suitable conditions. Actual range can vary according to structures, transceiver position, electrical interference and the installation environment.
Battery life depends on operating mode, activation frequency, environmental conditions and system configuration.
Only the specified lithium batteries should be used when replacing batteries.
Vehicle presence detection should not be relied upon as the sole personal safety system for an automated gate or barrier.
Installation and commissioning should be completed in accordance with the manufacturer’s instructions and the safety requirements of the connected automation system.
