ModSensorsMonitoring for oilfield camp trailers
A man camp is a group of trailers hours from the yard, so every problem in it costs a long drive. ModSensors reads tanks, power, temperature and gas on each trailer and sends the alarm to your phone before anyone drives out.
Washroom and shower trailers in a work camp
A pressure sensor on each tank drain reads the fresh, grey and black levels to the percent, and the app projects each trailer's pump-out date from its last week of use. With every washroom and shower trailer in the camp on one screen, you book the water haul and the pump-out for the whole camp on one trip, on the day the levels call for it, instead of on a fixed calendar. A threshold alarm sounds the horn on the trailer before the taps run dry. Water tank monitoring explains how the sensors read a tank.
Power and heat through winter
Camps in northern Alberta and BC heat off gensets through the winter. When a genset stops at 2 a.m., the heater circuit in every trailer on it stops too, and the lines in a washroom trailer freeze before morning.
The power monitor reads mains presence, battery voltage and current draw every minute. A stopped genset or a tripped breaker raises the horn on the trailer and the alert on your phone within minutes of the drop, and battery backup keeps the hub and the horn running after the mains is gone.
A temperature sensor inside a sleeper unit or dry shack adds a second alarm, for a heater that fails while the power stays on. When the room drops below the threshold you set, it raises the same horn and phone alert. The sensors are rated for -30 °C to +50 °C. Power monitoring lists the readings and alarms.
Gas near the wellsite
Methane, H₂S and CO sensors wire to the same hub as the tank and power sensors. When a reading passes the threshold you set, the horn on the trailer sounds and the alert reaches your phone at the same time. The hub has four relay outputs for industrial horns, beacons and locks, so one rule can read: H₂S above 5 ppm, horn and beacon on, alert to three phones. Crews keep wearing their personal monitors; the trailer alarm is an addition to them, for the people inside the unit and around it. Gas detection covers the sensors and alarm control covers the relays and rules.
What goes on a camp trailer
A washroom or shower trailer takes water tank monitoring on its fresh and waste tanks. A sleeper unit or dry shack takes power monitoring with a temperature sensor, and gas detection where the work calls for it. A wellsite trailer nobody is at overnight takes a trailer security camera that sends a photo to your phone when something moves during the hours you set.
Water tank monitoring
Pressure sensors on the drains read fresh, grey and black tanks to the percent. The app projects the pump-out date from the last week of use.
Water tank monitoring
Power monitoring
Voltage, mains and current draw, read every minute. Alert when mains is lost or a breaker trips, so you catch a failed heater circuit before the lines freeze.
Power monitoring
Trailer security camera
Motion sends a photo to your phone and saves a ten-second clip. Night vision to 30 metres, with a siren and floodlight you can trigger from the app.
Trailer security camera
Gas detection
Methane, H₂S and CO sensors wire into the hub. A gas alarm trips the horn on the trailer and sends the phone alert at the same time.
Gas detectionWhere we work
We install on trailers in Fort McMurray and Grande Prairie, and serve the Permian in Texas. A typical install takes an afternoon and is done on site with the trailer in service, as it is on a washroom trailer in a rental fleet. At a camp with weak coverage, the horn and status screen keep working with no signal and an external antenna can be fitted to the hub; cellular connectivity explains what needs the signal and what does not. Quotes go out the same day.
Common questions
Can it be installed while the camp is running?
Yes. The install is done on site with the trailer in service, and a typical one takes an afternoon. The sensors fit the standard tank drains and nothing is cut.
Does the gas detection meet H₂S safety requirements?
We make no certification or regulatory claim for it. It is a trailer alarm: the sensor trips the horn and the phone alert when the reading passes the threshold you set. Personal monitors and the site's safety rules stay as they are.
Do you serve camps in Texas?
Yes. We serve the Permian and the Gulf Coast and ship across Canada and the US. The install is the same as at a northern camp, and the sensors are rated to +50 °C.
Can sleeper units and dry shacks get the same setup?
Yes. Each trailer gets its own hub and you pick the sensors for it: a sleeper unit might take power monitoring and a temperature sensor, a dry shack the same plus a gas sensor. The pricing page explains how a setup is put together and what can be added later.
Will the dashboard show which camp a trailer is at?
Yes. The dashboard shows the fleet on a map, and a trailer's position updates on its own when it moves to a new camp, with nothing for the office to re-enter. History is kept per trailer, so it follows the unit from camp to camp. The app page covers the dashboard and the phone app.
Talk to us
Tell us how many trailers and where they sit. We will send a quote the same day.