Caravan Monitoring System

Many people in the UK enjoy having a caravan. They can offer a great way to holiday in multiple locations while keeping some level of familiarity – they can even make a permanent home. However, when used as a holiday home, caravans are often left unattended when they’re not being used. If there are personal belongings on board this can cause a certain level of anxiety and worry.

A caravan monitoring system would help alleviate some of this fear as you’ll be able to remotely check whether doors or windows are open, for example.

Loxone is an extremely versatile system. The solution is suitable for a range of special applications such as creating a caravan monitoring system.

A Miniserver on its own would provide intelligent lighting control using its built-in relays. Door & Window Contacts will then allow you to check the status of any, you guessed it, doors and windows – regardless of where you are in the world. If the caravan has a motorised awning, this can also be automatically controlled using Loxone.

When the caravan is locked, the lights go out automatically, any awnings are retracted and you will receives confirmation from the system that all doors are closed and the system is in All Out Mode.

Anything that has been automated by Loxone is displayed in the Loxone App and can be controlled from there if necessary (even remotely). A Touch Switch or Remote Air could also be used to give intuitive control of the caravan monitoring system.

If something is amiss, the Miniserver sends a push notification. If you would rather be contacted by phone, this is possible via the Caller Service.

Important:

To control the van via the Loxone App, a 4G router is needed, to enable an external connection. If this kind of router is not available and therefore there is no local connection, it is not possible to communicate with the van. However, notifications will still be received.

For the power supply, a transformer is needed to convert the 12V from the caravan to the 24V for the Miniserver.