Sensaphone® is celebrating its 30th year as a provider of remote monitoring solutions. Engineer Ken Blanchard envisioned the first Sensaphone product in response to losing his unattended boat docked in Somers Point., NJ, twice in one year. Blanchard’s vessel sank after a storm because the bilge pump failed. He figured there had to be a way to create a remote device that could notify people when their property was in trouble.

At the time, Blanchard was the general manager of the Advanced Development and Engineering Center at conglomerate Gulf+Western. There, the original Sensaphone product was born directly from Blanchard's vision. In 1985, Ken bought the product line and started his own company to manufacture and sell the remote monitoring device that he invented and patented. From its creation in the basement of his family home, Sensaphone has become a multi-million-dollar company located in Aston, PA.