Boat security system
A boat alarm system that only sounds on the pontoon is a hope, not a security system. Cloud Shelter's Lookout hub links wireless door, hatch and motion sensors, a certified smoke alarm and a siren, and sends every alarm to your phone — wherever you are.
You arm and disarm it from the portal or with one tap in Telegram.
Wireless contact sensors go on the companionway, lockers and hatches; motion sensors watch the saloon. While the boat is armed, an opened hatch or movement aboard sounds the siren and alerts your phone. Disarmed, they stay quiet — the boat knows you are aboard.
A certified photoelectric smoke alarm sounds its own sounder aboard and pushes the alarm to your phone the instant it senses smoke — armed or not, because life-safety never waits for an arm switch. Temperature and humidity sensors catch an overheating engine room, frost risk and the damp that grows mould.
If the engine starts or the boat moves while it is armed, you are told immediately — including a slow drift with the engine off, the signature of a boat being towed.
How the boat GPS tracker works
Most boats are lost to water, not thieves. The same hub watches the bilge and leak sensors, and a clip-on monitor tells you when shore power drops.
Arm from the portal, from Telegram with one tap, or from the Lookout's own panel aboard. When you arm, you get one summary of anything already not normal — a hatch left open, shore power off — so you hear about it once rather than every few minutes. Disarming when you are back aboard clears the security alerts.
Smoke always sounds the siren, armed or not. A door, hatch or motion alarm sounds it only while the boat is armed and the siren is enabled, so you never set it off by walking aboard. If the hub commands the siren and it does not confirm sounding, you are told — a siren that silently fails is treated as a fault.
Every sensor reports in regularly. If one goes quiet or its battery runs low, you get an alert, so a security system with a dead sensor never looks healthy from the outside.
Most fires aboard start in the engine compartment or the galley. A temperature sensor in the engine room catches an overheating space before there is smoke, and the smoke alarm is placed where its own instructions advise — usually in the saloon or near the sleeping cabins, away from galley steam.
What it does not do: it does not detect carbon monoxide — fit a dedicated CO alarm aboard. The sensors are wireless; the Lookout hub needs power from the boat. Read more in our guide to boat security and safety monitoring.
One whose alarm leaves the boat. A siren aboard deters, but it is the alert on your phone that lets you act. Cloud Shelter does both, with wireless sensors and arming from Telegram.
No — the door, hatch, motion, smoke, temperature and leak sensors are wireless. The Lookout hub needs power from the boat's 12 V supply or USB.
No. Cloud Shelter's smoke alarm is a certified photoelectric smoke detector, not a CO detector. Fit a dedicated carbon monoxide alarm as well.
From the boat's page in the portal, or with /arm in Telegram. Disarming is the same.
Not if you disarm first, from the portal or Telegram. Smoke is the exception — it always sounds, because life-safety doesn't wait for an arm switch.
Yes. Each boat on your account has its own sensors, arm state and alerts.
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