★Residential + Commercial · Security

Access control & gate intercom · Kansas City.

IntegrateIT installs access control and entry intercoms for homes in Kansas City, Missouri and Overland Park, Kansas. We are an Overland Park, Kansas integrator founded in 2021 by Daniel and Moran Alon, and we work both sides of the state line — Leawood, Prairie Village, Mission Hills and Johnson County on the Kansas side, Kansas City and Lee’s Summit on the Missouri side. Control4 Platinum Dealer with a Control4 Certified Showroom, Crestron Elite Partner, Lutron Certified Dealer, CEDIA member, HTA Certified, BBB-accredited. What you can check before you sign: each of those tiers in the manufacturer’s own dealer listing, the BBB record, a line-item proposal with its exclusions printed beside its inclusions, and a five-year workmanship warranty on our labor in writing. Phone: (913) 804-7575 or office@integrateit.tech.

A door and a driveway gate are the same problem at two scales: who gets in, when, and what the log says afterwards. IntegrateIT designs and installs access control and gate intercoms across the Kansas City metro from Overland Park. Badge readers, electrified locks and request-to-exit on the commercial side; driveway gate operators, call boxes and video intercoms that ring your Control4 or Crestron panels on the residential side. One trade permits, installs and certifies it. Phone: (913) 804-7575 or office@integrateit.tech.

Two jobs that share a page

“Access control” means two quite different projects depending on who is asking, and they get quoted differently. A business is asking about doors: who badges in, when, which doors, and what the log has to prove afterwards. A homeowner on an acreage is asking about the approach: a gate at the road, a call box, and the ability to see and talk to whoever is standing at it from the kitchen. We do both, and the parts underneath overlap more than the two conversations suggest.

Commercial — doors, badges, and a log that holds up

• Readers and platform. Ubiquiti UniFi Access where the site is small or medium and already on UniFi; Brivo for cloud-managed multi-site; Avigilon Alta and HID Mercury at enterprise scale, with Axis door controllers and readers where the site is already built on Axis cameras and wants one device catalogue rather than two. Visitor management on Envoy where reception needs it.
• The door hardware is the real scope. An electric strike, or a maglock where the door cannot take one, plus a request-to-exit device, a door position contact, and — on a maglock — the fire alarm release and emergency egress hardware that turns a door into a code item rather than a wiring item.
• Reader-to-controller wiring. We run OSDP over RS-485 rather than legacy Wiegand wherever the hardware supports it. Wiegand sends credential data in the clear over a cable anyone can reach behind a reader; OSDP encrypts it and tells you when a reader stops answering. On a retrofit we will tell you which one the existing readers speak before anything is ordered.
• Power budget, honestly counted. Readers are PoE devices sharing a switch with cameras, access points and signage, and a maglock’s standby draw is not a reader’s. We size the switch’s PoE budget for the whole rack rather than per-device, and lock power gets its own supply with battery standby instead of being hung off a reader port.
• One pane with the cameras. Access and surveillance pair on one platform with badge-event-to-video linking, so a door event and its footage come up together. The camera half — NDAA-compliant Axis and Avigilon, both carried and installed under distribution, the video-management options and retention configured per camera — is on our commercial surveillance page.

Residential — the gate, the call box, and the panel in the kitchen

• The intercom lands where you already are. The call box rings the in-wall touch panels and your phone rather than a handset in a closet. Control4 surfaces the front door on the touch panel so you answer from the kitchen — DoorBird is one of the intercoms it carries a certified driver for, so that is a certified integration rather than custom work. Crestron behaves the same way.
• We interface the gate operator you have. Most gate operators expose a dry contact or a serial port, which is all an automation system needs to open, hold or close. Replacing a healthy operator is rarely the right spend; making it answer to the house is.
• Safety devices are not optional. Photo eyes and edge sensors are what stop a gate on a car or a child, and reversing loops are what keep it from closing on a vehicle still in the path. Where an existing gate is missing them, that is on the punch list before we automate anything about it.
• Distance is the design problem. Cat6 carries PoE reliably to about 100 meters. Past that we place a powered mid-span at a pedestal or run fibre to a heated enclosure at the gate. The trench and conduit that carry it are usually the largest line item on the quote, which is why we walk the driveway before quoting rather than after.
• Codes and events behave like the rest of the house. A gate code entering after dark can raise the drive lighting and push a notification with the camera clip attached — the same pattern as the per-person codes on the doors, applied 300 feet further out.

One integrator for the network, the cameras and the doors

On a commercial property these are not three projects. They are one system that happens to be sold by three trades. The network is what carries the other two: a camera is a network device, a reader and its controller are network devices, and all of them draw power from the same managed switch, in the same rack, behind the same battery. Split that across three vendors and the seams become yours. The camera company needs a port, the access company needs a segment, the network company was told about neither, and on the morning a door will not open you are the one making three phone calls to hear that everybody’s own part is fine.

So we draw them once. On a commercial job that looks like this.

• One drawing. Camera positions, door hardware and reader locations, access-point placement and every cable path on the same pathway plan — coordinated with the electrician, the door hardware supplier and the general contractor before the ceiling closes rather than on the punch list.
• One rack, one power budget. Switching, the recorder, the access controller and the gateway in one labeled, ventilated rack on a UPS. The PoE budget is sized for cameras, readers and access points together, because a 24-port switch does not power 24 PoE devices, and lock power gets its own supply with battery standby rather than hanging off a reader port. The whole discipline is on our rack build page.
• One segmentation scheme. Cameras on a segment with no route out to the internet, building devices — readers, thermostats, signage players — together where their firmware habits reach nothing that matters, staff and guest kept apart, and firewall rules between them that actually enforce the labels. Ubiquiti is a line we carry and install, and your IT group gets the addressing, the ports and the reason for each one in writing rather than an appliance they have never seen.
• One pane of glass. Badge events linked to the video of that door at that second, so answering a question is one click instead of two searches in two apps at two timestamps — and, at a house, a gate code after dark arriving as one notification with the driveway clip attached.
• One support call. One certificate of insurance, one schedule commitment, one set of as-builts, one set of admin credentials issued in your name, and one number to call when a door will not open.

The network half — Cat6A to the outlet, fiber between closets, managed PoE switching, the VLAN scheme above — is on our commercial networking page. The camera half, with the retention, compliance and evidence decisions a business should make before anything is specified, is on commercial surveillance. This page is the doors. We are usually called about two of the three and end up drawing all three, because the third was already on the same switch.

What it costs, and why we will not quote it by email

A door’s cost is decided by the door, not by the badge technology. The reader is the cheap part; the scope is the door’s share of the controller, an electric strike or a maglock, the request-to-exit device and the door contact. Hollow metal with conduit already in the frame is one job, a glass storefront pair with fire-release hardware is a different one, and a historic wood door that needs a new raceway is a third.

Gates and intercoms we quote after a walk, and we do not publish a range for them, because the trench length, the conduit path, the existing operator and whether power already exists at the road swamp every other variable. A number published without those answers would be a guess dressed as a quote. The site walk is free — call (913) 804-7575, or plan a site walk for the broader project. Where the doors are part of a larger intrusion system, the alarm installation page covers that layer and the security system cost guide covers what moves the camera and monitoring numbers.

Questions Kansas City owners and facility managers ask