Full-time RV & snowbirds
The rig is home year-round, or it's the winter home you leave behind for the summer. Long occupancy plus long absences means you need both the liveaboard story and the storage story — and it all has to travel with you.
What can go wrong
Living in it and leaving it both have their failure modes.
Park-water plumbing failures
Campground hookups have real pressure behind them. A fitting that fails while you're living aboard runs until you catch it.
Leaving it for a season
Everything in the storage scenario — dying batteries, dead pedestals, quiet leaks — but for months, and possibly thousands of miles away.
Boondocking on battery alone
Off-grid, battery state is everything, and guessing wrong is cold, dark, or an expensive replacement.
A missed alert matters more
When the rig is your house, an alarm you don't see isn't a nuisance — it's your home.
How Guardian covers it
Each risk maps to something that ships today, with the plan tier it needs called out honestly.
Bound the risk on park water
The LinkTap valve turns an "unlimited" park hookup into a bounded risk: every open is volume/duration-limited, and the flood-shutoff layer reacts in seconds — local and cloud, on any tier.
Battery truth off-grid
Battery monitoring with chemistry presets covers 12/24 V banks, and local monitoring costs nothing and needs no internet — ideal for boondocking where you just want the number on the panel in front of you.
Premium earns its keep when you're away
Leaving the rig for the season, Premium ($5/mo) gives ~30-second remote freshness, SMS escalation on top of push, ~3 years of history with CSV export, and priority support. Voice-call alerts and Home Assistant / MQTT / IFTTT integrations are on the roadmap.
It travels at every site
Your monitoring runs on the rig's own network and sensors, so it works the same at every campground. Add a cheap LTE gateway from the connectivity guide and you're covered even with no park Wi-Fi — with GPS location as a bonus.
One account, several rigs
Multi-vehicle support means the truck camper and the fifth wheel are separate vehicles under one account, each with its own plan and sharing.
The setup
Off-the-shelf hardware, bought once. The core app is free.
Recommended hardware
- LinkTap G2S valve + Gateway — park-water safety~$135–160
- Shelly Plus Uni — house bank (12/24 V presets)
- Shelly Flood Gen4 ×2+ — each wet zone~$30 each
- Shelly Plus H&T — cabin climate~$30
- LTE gateway with GPS — connectivity + locationsee guide
A full build plus a cheap always-on LTE gateway keeps you covered on the road. The connectivity guide shows low-cost options — your sensors use very little data.
Recommended plan
Premium while it's out of reach
Premium ($5/mo · $30/yr) is worth it while the rig is out of reach for a season — SMS, tight freshness, and long history. When you're living in it day to day, a cheaper tier is fine; the plan is per vehicle and changeable.
Every vehicle can try one month of Basic free first, started from the app's Account view.