"How I Built the World's Only PoE Powered Driveway Gate to Stop People Turning Around" : Silver Cymbal Workshop

[mat200]

I know many have asked questions for PoE cameras at gates further away from their homes / workshops .. thus I wanted to post this

How I Built the World's Only PoE Powered Driveway Gate to Stop People Turning Around​

Silver Cymbal Workshop

Oct 28, 2025 2 products
Driveway gates are usually powered by Solar or 120v, but that's too expensive ,won't run cameras and solar doesn't work in heavily wooded areas. My gate is powered from a low voltage network switch using PoE & it's so well equipped you might think it's a gate for a military base & that's where it may have been headed before I bought it.

 

[TonyR]

I know many have asked questions for PoE cameras at gates further away from their homes / workshops .. thus I wanted to post this

How I Built the World's Only PoE Powered Driveway Gate to Stop People Turning Around​

Silver Cymbal Workshop

Oct 28, 2025 2 products
Driveway gates are usually powered by Solar or 120v, but that's too expensive ,won't run cameras and solar doesn't work in heavily wooded areas. My gate is powered from a low voltage network switch using PoE & it's so well equipped you might think it's a gate for a military base & that's where it may have been headed before I bought it.

Lots of great tech there. And the guy is very talented, but.....

How does he know it's "...the World's Only PoE Powered Driveway Gate" ?

Besides, the gate is actually battery powered!

 

[tigerwillow1]

Lots of great tech there. And the guy is very talented, but.....

I'm not trying to put down what looks like a very nicely done project. I just think there are a lot of misleading electrical statements. The obvious one is that the gate is powered by a network switch. As pointed out by TonyR, it's powered by a battery which is charged by the output of a POE switch+splitter combination. Plus the power feed to the gate location isn't POE at all, but rather good-ole 12 gauge copper conductors carrying nominal 48 volt DC. I give it credit for ingenious use of available components, but saying it's POE powered is a shaky exaggeration.

 

[Ri22o]

I'm not trying to put down what looks like a very nicely done project. I just think there are a lot of misleading electrical statements. The obvious one is that the gate is powered by a network switch. As pointed out by TonyR, it's powered by a battery which is charged by the output of a POE switch+splitter combination. Plus the power feed to the gate location isn't POE at all, but rather good-ole 12 gauge copper conductors carrying nominal 48 volt DC. I give it credit for ingenious use of available components, but saying it's POE powered is a shaky exaggeration.

I agree.

 

[mat200]

I agree.

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Thanks @Ri22o, @tigerwillow1, @TonyR

I think too many videos on youtube have clickbait titles .. to the point that I am starting to block some channels whose clickbait titles are excessive

would be nice to see a good text write-up on his setup.

I am impressed with the work, yet the misleading title is a pita