Afraid of theft
- Richard
- May 2
- 4 min read
Two months of driving through Morocco and not once was I afraid that something would happen to Globus 2. In the big tourist cities of Spain and in the big parking lots in France that safe feeling quickly disappeared. Finding a safe place to leave Globus 2 is not always easy. The reviews in Park4Night about break-ins often make you even more afraid than you already were. At such moments you have to trust the security that is built into the bus.
Security
This week I was talking to our temporary neighbour at the campsite. He told me that his camper with everything on it was stolen in Italy last year. In addition to your camper, all your possessions are gone in one go and in our case our entire house. There you are, what do you do? You probably can't prevent this completely, but I'm glad we built a number of security measures into Globus 2. Then you can walk through a big city or during a long hike just a little more relaxed.
"Safety doesn't happen by accident"
Burglary
What we have seen regularly in the past 6 months is that campers are broken into by a big jerk on the mostly plastic windows. At the beginning of this year, we installed the E-Switch on our windows and the roof hatch. As soon as a window or roof hatch is broken open, I immediately receive a notification on my phone and I can take action. So you are really quick when there is a break-in. A handy extra functionality of this E-Switch is that if you forget to close the roof hatch before leaving, for example, you also receive a warning when you start driving. This works so well that we also installed an E-Switch on the cupboard door of the top cupboards. We sometimes forgot to close these properly before driving.
If they did get in
The second security we have built in is for when the thieves do get in. A motion sensor, the E-Movement , which is attached to the ceiling with double-sided tape. This is also from the company E-Trailer and works with the same app and therefore also gives a notification as soon as movement is detected. It is a small wireless box that is easy to install. I like wireless equipment. Pulling wires is simply not that easy when the camper is already completely ready.
Camper stolen
Then your worst nightmare, they not only got in, they stole the entire camper. All your belongings are gone. What now? I really don't want to think about this ever happening to us. If it does happen, the third layer of security comes into effect. The two previously mentioned modules connect to the E-Trailer basic module Plus . This basic module Plus already has a built-in GPS as standard. Now you can always see where your camper is on your phone using E-Track&Trace. You do need to take out a subscription for this, so that the E-Trailer modules remain connected to the internet.
Alarm center
To make the security complete, you can also take out a recovery subscription, which connects your E-Trailer system to the NVD security group. If the camper is stolen, a message is sent to this center with one push of a button, including the exact location of the camper. They then take immediate action and the chance that we will ever see our Globus 2 again is much greater. This works in a very large part of the world ! A nice side effect is that if you have camper insurance with Aveco, you can get a cashback discount of 50% on the first year of your Recovery subscription costs until December 31, 2025.
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Future developments
You read it right, I am very pleased with the stuff that the company E-Trailer makes. The young company, which was set up by two students from the TU in Delft, continues to innovate constantly and they come up with new modules on the market almost every year. This way the system becomes more and more complete. And everything is wireless and can be controlled within one app. I have heard that new functionalities will be added to the system at the end of this year. I can't wait to see that.
Module | Price |
Starter package Plus (incl. E-level, E-Volt, E-Track&Trace and remote reading option) | €349.95 |
E-Switch (2 pieces) | € 90,- |
€ 110,- | |
E-Trailer subscription (for a duration of 1 year) | € 100,- per year |
Additional cost for subscription to E-Trailer Recovery subscription | €60 per year |
Accountability
When you read this blog you might think what an advertisement, but we did not receive any financial compensation from E-trailer for this blog. We did receive the discussed modules from E-trailer to test them. They do not make any demands on the content of this blog and we are therefore completely free to express our own real objective experience. It should be clear that I am very enthusiastic.
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