Using SimpliSafe in a Trailer?

@ericwevans suggest you do a Google site search and find other threads that cover your question. There customers who have used SS systems to protect trailers but not sure how the monitoring would work.

Hi @ericwevans,

That's a great question! As Captain11 mentioned, other SimpliSafe customers have used our equipment for similar purposes. If your "warehouse" is close enough to your current SimpliSafe system, you may not even need to purchase a separate system and instead just get some additional sensors.

If you do decide to secure your warehouse with some SimpliSafe equipment and have it monitored, we recommend putting some information (ie "trailer in the back of the house is monitored as well") in the Additional Address Info section of the Monitoring section of your account. That information is then relayed by our monitoring agents to the police/fire department when we dispatch for an alarm. This will ensure that the emergency responders know which locations to check when they arrive.

For some more creative ways to use SimpliSafe equipment, you can view this blog post of ours from a few years back.

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SimpliSafe Home Security

I use it in my motorhome which is parked next to the house.  I have the motorhome sensors defined to both the house system and the motorhome system, but only the house system has monitoring.  Thus, when the motorhome is "home", it is monitored as part of the house system, and when the motorhome is on the road, monitoring makes no sense unless I'm parked somewhere for an extended period.

Agree with most but bear in mind if the trailer is metal siding than can reduce the range of sensor/base communication. Whether or not that might be problematic depends to a large degree on individual circumstances of construction, base location, distance, etc.