New Century · AirCenter community
New Century · new-build and light-commercial, wired clean.
IntegrateIT is a low-voltage, networking and AV integrator serving New Century, Kansas and the AirCenter, about half an hour southwest of the design center at 15108 Glenwood Ave, Overland Park. Steel skin and long open spans change every assumption: a structured-wiring backbone with fiber between structures, access points placed on real cable for hangar and shop spaces, and whole-home control on the acreage nearby. Control4 Platinum Dealer, Crestron Elite Partner, Lutron Certified Dealer, CEDIA member, HTA Certified. Five-year workmanship warranty. (913) 804-7575.
New Century began as a Navy airfield and is still organized around the AirCenter, which makes it the least residential place in our Johnson County territory. What sits out here is a mix of hangars, light-industrial buildings, offices and the homes on the rural edges toward Gardner and Edgerton. Steel structures and long open spans dominate, and that changes almost every assumption you would carry over from a subdivision. The Overland Park design center is about half an hour northeast, so this is regular territory rather than a special trip.
Installing in New Century
What is different about New Century houses
Installing at New Century is different because metal is everywhere. Steel skin, steel purlins and insulated metal panel walls reflect and block wireless, so coverage inside a hangar or shop building is a matter of putting access points on real cable in the right places, not of turning up the power on one unit. Long spans also mean long cable runs, which pushes us toward fiber for backbone links between buildings and toward switches placed where the runs actually terminate rather than in one central closet.
Most of the work here is light commercial in character even when it is on a residential property. That means the design starts with the network and the cameras and only then adds audio and control. Access control on a shop door, plate-visible camera coverage at a gate, and a system an owner can check from a phone on the road are the priorities. Distribution audio in an open building needs speaker choices made for reverberation and height, not the in-ceiling parts you would use in a den.
The homes on the rural edges nearby have the opposite problem: no neighbors, long driveways and outbuildings scattered across acreage. Those properties want a hardwired backbone from the house out to the barn or shop, outdoor-rated access points, and camera coverage at the entrance rather than at every window. Power quality is also worth checking out here. Rural service is more prone to sags and surges, so protection and grounding get specified with the same care as the equipment they defend.
The kind of work we do in New Century
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A structured-wiring backbone for a new building, with fiber between structures and switches at the terminations
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Access points and camera coverage engineered for steel-skinned shop and hangar spaces
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Whole-home control and enterprise-grade Wi-Fi on an adjacent acreage property
What we install in New Century
The full integration stack — designed to disappear.
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Questions from New Century homeowners
Do you cover New Century and the AirCenter area?
- Yes. It is about half an hour southwest of our Glenwood Avenue design center in Overland Park, well inside the area we work every week. We take both the light-commercial buildings out here and the homes on the surrounding rural edges. Site walks are no cost, and for a commercial space we will want to see the building, the electrical room and the ceiling structure before proposing anything.
Why is Wi-Fi so bad inside a metal building?
- Steel walls and roof reflect and absorb wireless signal, so one access point in a corner covers a fraction of what it would in a wood-framed house. The fix is several access points placed by coverage area and fed with real cable, tuned so they do not fight each other, and a switch close enough to keep run lengths legal. It is an engineering problem with a straightforward answer, not a hardware upgrade.
Can you connect a shop or hangar back to the main building?
- Usually with fiber. Copper has a distance limit that these properties blow past quickly, and fiber also breaks the electrical path between buildings, which matters for surge. We run it in conduit where the trench allows, land it on switches at both ends, and put the whole property on one network so cameras, access control and Wi-Fi all report to the same place.
What does surveillance look like for a property out here?
- Coverage at the points that matter rather than a camera on every wall. That usually means the gate or driveway entrance, the doors people actually use, and the yard where equipment sits. Cameras record on site, integrate with the control system, and are reachable from a phone. We use lines on our authorized roster and specify housings and infrared appropriate to how dark it gets out there at night.
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New Century consultation
Tell us about your New Century project.
Consultations are by appointment. We'll spend an hour walking through your space, talking about how you live, and sketching what's possible — at no cost, no pitch.