Every access-controlled door is a meeting point between two different trades. Electricians bring in the power, while security integrators handle the low-voltage cabling for readers, sensors, and monitoring devices. Both work in the same physical space within the frame, yet too often they approach it with different assumptions.
That lack of common understanding may seem small, but on the jobsite it can lead to real problems. Without a shared plan, installers find themselves working around each other, duplicating effort or leaving gaps, or improvising in ways that compromise the quality of the opening. What should be a straightforward installation can quickly turn into finger-pointing, delays, or a patchwork solution that creates headaches long after turnover.
Where the Disconnect Happens
The challenge lies in perspective. Electricians focus on conduit runs, drops, and how power is distributed throughout a building. Integrators, on the other hand, think in terms of device counts, cable types, and signal routing. Both roles are essential, but neither has clear ownership of the wiring pathway inside the frame to each and every device.
That lack of clarity leaves the opening vulnerable. On too many projects, the frame arrives without a defined path, forcing trades to drill holes or fish wires through narrow cavities after the wall is closed. The results are predictable: inconsistent installations, failed inspections, and openings that are nearly impossible to service or upgrade later.
How a Shared Roadmap Fixes the Problem
What’s missing is a roadmap: a standardized, agreed-upon conduit pathway for how wiring should move through the frame and out to the rest of the system. With a fully developed pathway in place, each trade knows exactly what to expect and how their work connects to the other.
The benefits are immediate. Installers avoid rework because pathways are already defined and installed. Coordination improves because electricians and integrators aren’t guessing or stepping on each other’s scope. Inspections go more smoothly because the pathway is consistent and code-compliant from opening to opening.
Frame Frog makes this even simpler by providing distinct ports: short ports for internal routing within the frame, and long ports for external conduit connections. With that clarity, the wiring decision isn’t left to interpretation but instead it’s built into the infrastructure from the start.
Frame Frog as the Roadmap
Frame Frog fills the gap that has long existed between trades. Its UL fire-rated, pre-engineered port system gives both electricians and integrators a common framework to work from, no matter how complex the project becomes.
Because the system can be installed at the factory or added in the field, the roadmap is available whether the decision is made during design or later in construction. In either case, the outcome is the same: a clean, consistent, and future-ready pathway that eliminates uncertainty. With Frame Frog in place, electricians and integrators don’t just work side by side but rather they work from the same playbook. That shared roadmap keeps projects on track, simplifies inspections, and ensures that the opening performs as intended not just on day one, but for years to come.