Technology Integration
Built on Systems You Own
A Kansas City integrator for physical security, networks, and the software that connects them. Access control and video are where we go deepest, and because we write the code ourselves, we can usually connect systems another installer would call incompatible.
What We Do
We start with the software and the integration, then handle the physical systems that depend on it. Access control and cameras are the specialty, and we service equipment another company installed.
Access Control & Physical Security
Card and fob entry that keeps working when the internet goes down, because the doors decide locally.
- Doors unlock on site, not in a data center
- Add or revoke a credential in seconds
- Schedules, holidays, and after-hours rules
- Every entry logged, searchable, and yours to keep
Cameras & Video
New camera systems or additions to what you have, recording on site rather than in somebody's cloud.
- ONVIF cameras, no proprietary lock-in
- On-site recording, nothing streamed out by default
- Badge events linked to the footage
- Motion and object detection on the local box
Networks, Cabling & Wireless
The low-voltage infrastructure underneath all of it, done to the same standard as the visible parts.
- Structured cabling, clean terminations, tidy racks
- Switching, PoE, and VLANs sized for the building
- Wireless coverage surveys and access points
- Camera and door networks kept off your office LAN
Custom Software & Integrations
We write the software, so systems that "don't integrate" usually turn out to.
- Connect equipment and software that shipped without APIs for each other
- Dashboards and reports built around how you actually work
- Automation for the steps somebody is doing by hand
- Data pushed into the reporting tools you already run
Working With What You Own
We would rather keep your equipment in service than sell you replacements for it.
- Keep working cameras, panels, and readers running
- Tie existing systems together instead of ripping them out
- Service and repair hardware another installer put in
- A straight answer when something really is past saving
Service & Support
One flat monthly fee covers the software, hosting, and remote help.
- Request service in one tap from your phone
- Remote response next business day, included
- We see equipment faults before you call
- On-site work quoted and billed by the hour
How a Job Goes
Three steps, with something concrete delivered at the end of each one. The process is the same for eight doors, a camera retrofit, or a software integration.
Scope it
We find out what you actually have. Usually that means walking the building; sometimes it means reading an existing system's configuration and what its API will let us do. Most sites have more usable cable in the walls and more life left in their equipment than the owner expects.
Key Activities
- Look at each door, camera position, and cable path
- Trace what the last installer left and what still works
- Read the existing software: configs, exports, and API limits
- Check network drops, switch capacity, power, and egress rules
- Agree on what is in scope and what can wait
Deliverables:
A point-by-point list of what each door, camera, run, or integration needs. This part costs nothing.
Quote it
One number, itemized, with the hardware named. You will know the make and model of every reader, camera, lock, and switch before anyone drills a hole.
Key Activities
- Itemized hardware list at the part-number level
- Labor quoted per door or per drop, with a firm total
- Any monthly fee stated plainly with what it covers
- A wiring and termination plan the crew can execute
- Half down at signing, balance when it works
Deliverables:
A fixed-price quote you can compare line by line against anyone else's.
Build it
Licensed low-voltage crews pull the wire. We design it, commission it, and stay until your people can run it without calling us.
Key Activities
- Licensed subcontractors handle wire and conduit
- We commission and test every device ourselves
- Credentials loaded, schedules set, staff trained
- Administrator logins are yours and stay yours
- We pull the network cable and prove doors open
Deliverables:
A working system, your own administrator access, as-built documentation, and a spare parts plan.
What You Get Working With Us
You own the hardware
The panels, readers, cameras, and switches are yours, bought outright. Nothing is leased, and nothing stops working because a subscription lapsed.
No per-door billing
One flat monthly fee for the account, however many doors, cameras, or credentials you add. Add a door next year and the monthly fee stays where it is.
Nobody gets locked in
The software is open source. Take it in house or hand it to another integrator and it keeps working, with your data intact.
Want a number for your job?
Tell us what you need and we'll come look at it. Scoping the job and quoting it don't cost anything.
About 816tech
A Kansas City technology integrator. We design the systems, write the software that connects them, and stay on the hook for both.
How We Got Here
We have always worked both sides of this trade at once: specifying, installing, and commissioning access control and video, on jobs from a single laundromat to enterprises with sites in several states, while also selling the same equipment to other installers. Distribution widened the sample. We saw which products came back, across far more buildings than we could wire ourselves, and the same complaints kept surfacing. Cloud systems stopped working when the internet did. Per-door software fees grew every time somebody added a reader. Customers could not touch their own equipment, because the software belonged to whoever sold it to them.
We build what we would want to run, and we sell nothing we would not put in our own building. Doors that keep deciding when the internet is down. Hardware you own outright. Open-source software, so nobody can hold your building hostage, us included. One flat fee that does not climb every time you add a reader. When two systems refuse to talk to each other, we write the code that makes them, because we would rather solve that than tell you it cannot be done.
Where We're Unusual
We answer for our own installs
We have specified this equipment, installed it, and been the ones who picked up the phone when it needed attention two years later. That is a different education than reading the spec sheet.
The designer commissions the job
No account manager handing you off, and no tier-one queue. Whoever walks your building is who sets the system up and who picks up the phone afterward.
We write the software
Unusual for an integrator, and it means the integrations other shops decline are ordinary work here, including equipment that shipped with no way to talk to anything else.
Tell us what you're working on
A new building, two systems that refuse to talk to each other, or something that stopped working. Tell us what you have and we'll tell you what it takes. Scoping the job and quoting it are free.