Bixby calls itself one of the fastest-growing cities in Oklahoma and the housing stock shows it. Bixby still carries its old nickname, the Garden Spot of Oklahoma, and sod farms still work the river bottom, but more than half of its homes have been built since 2000. Today it is subdivision after subdivision of new construction, plus something the inner metro does not have much of — acreage. Bixby has estate lots, custom homes on multiple acres, detached shops and outbuildings, and those properties change what an automation project involves.
On an acreage property the house is only part of the system. There is a shop or barn that needs network coverage and cameras. There is a gate. There is outdoor lighting across a lot that a single transformer will not reach. Wireless does not span that distance reliably, so the answer is buried conduit and fiber or hardened outdoor access points.
In Bixby's subdivisions the story is the same as the rest of the metro: slab construction, attic runs, and a builder pre-wire that stopped being adequate around 2015.