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An Australian firm believes it has created the most advanced caravan management system on the market, allowing users full digital monitoring and control over almost every aspect of their leisure vehicle.

Like most caravan management systems, the Sabre Living System monitors your batteries and power usage, your water tanks, the temperature and air quality, your geographical location, van movement as well as its own built-in security camera. It also controls your lights, fans, slide-outs, heaters, water heaters and water pumps - just like most other systems. It is also run by Android or Apple devices, just like many systems.

However, according to the engineer behind the technology Daniel Bisset, that is where similarities end with other systems on the market. He said: “Sabre is the result of looking at what should be in a caravan and starting from scratch. Most other systems are a slow evolution of existing systems.

“Sabre is built to grow – it takes technology like the Internet of Things, CI-BUS, and satellite communications to offer a device that has brains to do it all and keep growing with the benefit of over-the-air software updates.

“It has IR control for TVs, air conditioners and sound systems that aren’t connected, two-way satellite for safety and messaging when out of phone range and physical switch connection which tell the system which position the switch is in.”

The Sabre Living System also offers anti-theft features, such as a built-in security camera, air quality sensors, internal movement sensors, GPS tracking, jolt detection and the ability to track a stolen vehicle through the app or a website. It also offers an impressive level of automation, with lights that come on when it gets dark, heating that comes on at certain temperatures and even a mode that dims the light and plays relaxing music when it’s time for bed. 

The Sabre system is already in a number of top-brand Australian caravans and is available both for OEM and for retro-fitting.