★Carried & Installed

Paradox alarm systems · Kansas City.

IntegrateIT carries and installs Paradox across the Kansas City metro — the intrusion hardware on our new security work, and the panel we most often find worth keeping on a takeover. One precision first, because the trade is sloppy about this word: Paradox is a line we carry and install under distribution, not one we hold a dealer agreement on, so we do not call ourselves an authorized Paradox dealer. What we are is the people who count the openings, place the detectors where they will not cry wolf, build a reporting path with two ways out of the house, and put the alarm on the same panel as the lights. Phone: (913) 804-7575 or office@integrateit.tech.

What we carry and install from Paradox

Named the way the manufacturer names them, including the plus and M suffixes that mark the current revisions — a detail that matters on a takeover, because an SP6000 and an SP6000+ are not the same panel. We specify and install to order rather than holding stock.

Spectra SP panels — SP4000, SP5500+, SP6000+, SP7000+, SP65. The expandable hardwired range, and the family most Kansas City houses end up on. The backbone of an alarm installation.
EVO panels — EVO192 and EVOHD+. The high-security and access-control line, for properties with outbuildings, many partitions or a lot of doors to manage alongside the alarm. Where an alarm and access control want to be one system.
Magellan wireless — the MG5050+ transceiver panel. The two-way wireless range, for a finished house where pulling cable to every window is not realistic.
M25 and M25 LTE. Paradox’s hybrid console, with its wireless receiver, Wi-Fi, Ethernet and LTE in one unit, and the M-System wireless devices around it.
Keypads — TM70 Touch and TM50 Touch, K70M, K32LCD+, K35, K641+ and K641R. The TM70 and TM50 touchscreens run across the Spectra SP, Magellan and EVO families; the K641R adds an integrated card reader. In-wall brackets where the keypad should sit flush rather than proud.
Motion detectors — NV5, NVX80, DG75+, DG85 Series, DG467, 525DM. Indoor digital PIRs, an anti-mask indoor/outdoor detector, pet-immune versions for households with a dog, a ceiling detector with a full circular field, and a dual-tech microwave-and-infrared unit for the rooms where a single technology nuisance-trips.
Outdoor and perimeter detection — NV780MX, NV780MR, PMD85M, PMD780M, PMD37M. Dual side-view outdoor detectors and curtain detectors for fence lines, outbuildings and sliding doors — the hardware behind driveway and perimeter detection.
Contacts, glass-break and life safety — DCT2M, DCT6M, DCT10M, DCT12M, DCT6, DCTXP2, DG457, SD760M10, WD1, WD2M and the WV2M valve. Magnetic contacts in several sizes including in-frame, a glass-break bus detector, a photoelectric smoke detector with its own siren, and water detection that can shut a supply valve — because in this metro the claim that actually gets filed is usually water, not burglary.
Sirens — SR230, SR250, SR230M, SR250M, CM1M. Outdoor sirens with integrated strobes and an indoor chime, which is the part that makes a door-open announcement pleasant rather than alarming.
Reporting — IP150, IP150+, IP180, PCS265LTE, PCS265V8, and Swan. Network modules and LTE communicators, reporting over Paradox’s MQTT generation, which is encrypted and supervised. This is what our monitoring work rides on.
Apps and tooling — BlueEye, BabyWare, InField. BlueEye is the homeowner’s app; BabyWare is the installer configuration software and InField the firmware tool, which is how a documented system stays maintainable by whoever comes next.
StayD. Paradox’s arming mode, set up with the household rather than left at defaults. More on it below.

The panel is the easy part

Two things decide whether an alarm is any good, and neither is the box. The first is detector placement: a PIR aimed across a sunlit sliding door, or a pet-immune detector chosen for a household whose dog sleeps on the back of the sofa, produces false alarms, and a system that cries wolf gets switched off by the people it protects. We walk the house, count the openings, look at where the sun lands in February and where the dog actually goes, and choose between a curtain detector, a dual-tech unit and a contact accordingly.

The second is the reporting path, and it is the part that fails quietly. A single path out of the house is a single point of failure, so the network module and an LTE communicator go in together, and the path is supervised rather than assumed. The monitoring page walks the whole path, including the two-state permit and verification differences between Johnson County and the Missouri side, which surprise people more than the hardware does.

Then there is StayD, which is the one feature worth reading the manual for. Paradox describes it as a reversed philosophy: instead of sitting disarmed, the system stays armed and is only partly disarmed as somebody comes or goes. Set up properly it removes the two everyday failures of a normal alarm — the night nobody armed it, and the nagging uncertainty about whether it is on. Set up carelessly it annoys everyone by the second evening, which is why the entry and exit behaviour gets programmed around the household rather than the other way round.

Where it sits beside the other lines we carry

Ubiquiti for the cameras and the network. Paradox sells no camera today, so surveillance is a separate line recording to an on-site recorder, on its own network lane with no internet egress. Also carried and installed, not a dealer agreement of ours.
Control4 or Crestron in front of both. Armed state and camera feeds on the same touch panel as the lights, and a driveway detection at night that brings the entry walk up rather than just buzzing a phone. That is automation doing something useful rather than adding an app.
Smart locks on the doors that matter. A code that disarms on entry is the difference between a system people use and a system people work around.
A takeover, where there is already a panel. Documented first, then adopted, re-communicated or replaced — in that order of preference, because the cheapest good answer is usually the existing hardware.

Common questions

Who installs Paradox alarm systems in Kansas City?

IntegrateIT (Overland Park, KS) carries and installs Paradox across the Kansas City metro on both sides of the state line — panels, keypads, detectors, contacts and the reporting path that makes any of it useful. To be precise about the relationship, because the trade is sloppy about this word: Paradox is a line we carry and install under distribution, not one we hold a dealer agreement on, so we do not call ourselves an authorized Paradox dealer. The brands we do hold dealer agreements on include Control4, Crestron, Lutron HomeWorks and Josh.ai. We are a Control4 Platinum Dealer with a Control4 Certified Showroom, a Crestron Elite Partner, a Lutron Certified Installer and a CEDIA member, with hundreds of homes integrated since 2021. Phone: (913) 804-7575 or office@integrateit.tech.

Which Paradox panel goes in my house?

It comes down to how much is being wired and how big the system gets. The Spectra SP family — SP4000, SP5500+, SP6000+, SP7000+ — is the expandable hardwired range and covers most houses. The EVO family, EVO192 and EVOHD+, is the high-security and access-control line, and it is where we go when a property has outbuildings, many partitions or a lot of doors. Magellan, built around the MG5050+ transceiver, is the two-way wireless range for a finished house where pulling cable to every opening is not on. The M25 and M25 LTE are Paradox’s newer hybrid console, with wireless, Wi-Fi, Ethernet and LTE built into one unit. We pick on the site walk, after counting openings and finding cable paths, not from a catalog page.

What is StayD?

A Paradox arming mode, and the most useful thing on the spec sheet if you are the kind of household that forgets to arm. Paradox describes it as a reversed philosophy: rather than sitting disarmed by default, the system stays armed and is only partly disarmed as somebody enters or leaves. In practice that removes the two everyday failures of a normal alarm — the night nobody set it, and the uncertainty about whether it is on. It is on the Spectra SP and Magellan families, and we set it up with the household rather than leaving the panel at defaults, because the mode is only pleasant to live with if the entry and exit behaviour matches how people actually use the doors.

Does Paradox report over cellular, or does it need a phone line?

Neither a phone line nor a single path, if we are specifying it. Paradox’s internet modules — IP150, IP150+ and IP180 — carry reporting over the house network, and the PCS265LTE and PCS265V8 add an LTE radio as the second path, so a cut line or a dead internet connection is not a silent alarm. Paradox’s own cloud side is Swan, and the current generation reports over MQTT, which is encrypted and supervised, meaning the path is checked continuously rather than only when something trips. Path design is the part that actually fails in the field, and our monitoring page walks it in more detail than most companies will put in writing.

Does Paradox make cameras too?

Not today, and we would rather say so than imply otherwise. Paradox’s current catalog lists no camera and no video doorbell — the M25 console’s own specification marks video verification as available soon, and the older Insight HD detectors survive only in documents rather than in the live range. So on our projects the cameras are Ubiquiti, recording to an on-site recorder with no cloud subscription and living on their own network lane, while Paradox does the intrusion side. Both are lines we carry and install, they coexist perfectly well, and the camera feeds and the alarm state land on the same Control4 or Crestron touch panel.

Can you take over a Paradox system somebody else installed?

Often, and it is a large share of the security work we do. The visit starts with documenting what is actually on the wall — panel and revision, sensors, the reporting path, whether it is locked with an installer code — and ends with a plain answer: adopt it, adopt it with a new communicator, or replace it. A Paradox panel in good condition with a working bus is usually worth keeping, and we will say so rather than selling you hardware you do not need. Where the panel is locked or the previous company is unreachable, the takeover page explains what that changes.

Tell us what is on the wall. We will tell you what is worth keeping.

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Written by Daniel Alon, founder of IntegrateIT LLC, with twenty years in IT and AV integration — Control4 Platinum Dealer, Crestron Elite Partner, Lutron Certified Installer, CEDIA member. Overland Park, KS.