SEMA 2014: Superwinch Brings WiFi Control Connection To Its Winches

With its all-new ROAM wireless winch command system, you can now control your Superwinch winch from your smartphone or tablet. By using the Superwinch ROAM Lite or ROAM Pro, you can not only control the feed and intake of the winch from your smartphone, but the system will deliver (with the ROAM Pro) critical winch performance such as amp draw, motor temperature, line speed, and load sensing information directly to your phone.

Jon Mason at Superwinch gave us the details. “Superwinch’s ROAM Lite uses a secure password-protected WiFi network to communicate with the winch. And the WiFi connection can work anywhere, major metro areas or in the middle of nowhere in the USA. The ROAM Pro offers all that and more. It gives you instant feedback on winch performance data sent to your smartphone, and remote control of the winch.

“You could hand your phone to your buddy who is spotting you on a particularly tricky section of a gnarly trail, and have him control the winch from a position outside where he can see the terrain under your tires better than you can sitting in the driver’s seat.”

The Superwinch ROAM system features plug-and-play models that will fit all Talon Series, Tiger Shark 9500/11500, all Terra Series, all S Series, X9/S9000, and Husky winches. It works on 12V or 24V electrical systems. For all the details on the Superwinch ROAM Lite and ROAM Pro wireless winch controller systems, go to superwinch.com or call (800) 323-2031.