Built in, on by default
Instincts are the protective behaviours every Sensa Nomad ships with. Nobody sets them up and nobody wires them together. They are simply watching, from the day the system goes in.
Most of what goes wrong in a van goes wrong slowly, in the dark, while nobody is looking at a screen.
Push charge into a near-freezing lithium battery and you damage it permanently, in minutes, in silence. This one does not just tell you: Sensa switches off the chargers it can reach, and puts them back once the battery has warmed up.
You are hooked up and the site bollard trips at three in the morning. Without Sensa you find out at breakfast, with a flat battery.
Turn the key with the lead still plugged in and you will know about it before you have moved.
A heads-up while there is still time to do something about it, not an apology once you are sitting in the dark.
Everyone watches the leisure battery. Sensa also watches the one that actually gets you home, and speaks up if it sags while you are parked.
One cell drifting out of step with the rest is the first sign a battery is going wrong, long before it leaves you stranded.
Told while you can still plan a stop, rather than discovered halfway through a shower.
The other half of the same problem, and a nudge to empty it before it becomes today’s emergency.
A door left ajar, or a fridge quietly giving up. Sensa notices before your food does.
The difference between a van that reports on itself and a van that is paying attention.
Fuel getting low and a filling station coming up on your route. Sensa puts the two together, with a little help from Radar, and tells you it is worth the stop.
It counts your days in and out of the zone for you, and speaks up as the ninety-day limit gets close. No spreadsheet, no counting on your fingers.
A wireless sensor with a flat battery simply stops watching, and nothing tells you. Sensa tells you, and names the one that has gone quiet. The instinct that guards the others.
Sensa keeps its own house in order, and says something long before running out could become your problem.
How they behave
Every instinct arrives switched on and stays out of your way until it has something worth saying.
No. Every instinct on this page ships switched on. If your van has what an instinct needs to watch, it starts watching the day the system goes in. If it does not, the instinct waits quietly until you add it, and nothing else is affected.
Only when it matters. Each instinct either has a quiet word in your log or raises a proper alarm that keeps sounding until you deal with it, and you choose which. Battery at 71% with tomorrow’s sun already in the forecast? It says nothing.
Mostly they tell you, because you are the one who decides. Cold-charging is the exception: the damage is done in minutes, so Sensa switches the chargers off itself and puts them back once the battery is warm.
All of them. Every instinct has a dial. Warn me below 20%, or below 35%. A quiet word, or a full alarm. Or off entirely, if that one is not for you.
Instincts come with the system, switched on, on the day it goes in.
