At the end of 2024, after nearly four decades in corporate IT, the last ten as a Platform Engineering lead, I walked away from the career I'd built to do something completely different. The plan was simple: build a campervan and travel.
What I didn't expect was to start a company.
During the build I was genuinely shocked by how little the world of recreational vehicle control had advanced. We live in a connected era, where every device imaginable can be monitored, automated, and controlled from a phone. Yet step inside most RVs and marine vessels and you're met with systems that haven't meaningfully changed in decades. Fragmented panels, proprietary hardware, no integration, no intelligence.
I couldn't find a single solution on the market that felt like it belonged to the modern world. So the mission changed.
"The plan was to build a campervan and travel. What I didn't expect was to start a company."
Built on open hardware and Home Assistant. No proprietary lock-in, no vendor able to brick your system.
Designed for off-grid reality: power, climate, tanks, lighting and safety, all working together.
Supporting DIY builders through articles, guides and an open library of knowledge.
What Sensa is today
With a career built on platform engineering, the answer was always going to be open technology. Open hardware, open source software, no vendor lock-ins, so that customers own their system and no one can ever remotely disable something they paid for.
Sensa is the result of that thinking applied to recreational vehicles. Our platform is built on open hardware and Home Assistant, giving you a genuinely intelligent, connected control system without the proprietary strings attached.
Nomad is our first product, a complete control system for RVs, campervans and motorhomes, bringing power, climate, tanks, lighting and safety into one calm, connected interface. Nomad is in its final stage of development and we are launching our Beta at the VanLove 2026 festival.
Helm follows for the marine world, the same philosophy built for life on the water.
And for those who want to build their own, we're growing a library of articles, guides and community support for the self-build journey.