One Mini.One workspace entire.
The selfsame workspace Pro runneth, as many as 5 live sources side by side, with web-join and sharing across networks, in the chassis that fitteth a huddle room, a classroom, or a whole floor of common rooms.
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Within Polaris Essentials
One Mini. The workspace entire.
Essentials is no lesser tier, nor a reduced build: it runneth the selfsame Polaris software as Pro. Every difference betwixt the two is the chassis, not the platform: memory setteth the ceiling of shares at 5 instead of 10, and with no USB input there is no room camera to bridge, so wireless BYOM and Link are Pro capabilities, not a licence away. The same workspace, the same cloud, the same posture of security. Every capability below shippeth today.
Live sources composed side by side upon the display, compared, annotated, rearranged from any seat, laid out of themselves as sources join and depart, as many as 5 here, 10 upon Pro. The selfsame workspace Pro runneth, so a mingled fleet is never a mingled experience.
Wherefore the workspace prevaileth→Share from the browser upon the device thou camest in with, Chromebooks withal. No client, no admin rights, no drawer of dongles.
How web-join doth work→The paths of casting thy devices already speak, built within: users of Apple, Windows, and Chromebook share natively upon the LAN with no Mersive software at all, and every share alighteth upon the same workspace, side by side.
How the paths of casting do work→Every Essentials room joineth the selfsame fleet pane as the rest of the fleet: analytics, firmware, alerts, health, and idle-screen signage, all from one login.
Explore thou the cloud→Certifications bounded to a cloud say naught of the box upon the wall, so the box hath its own proof. Two outside firms have had at it: one over the network, one with the lid off, and the smaller unit was within scope in its own right.
An independent scan · July 2026
An outside firm did scan a managed Pod. The ports that answer are the casting and appliance functions, and no persistent media listener could be enumerated at all; the path of real-time media useth ephemeral UDP ports, one set per session, that answer only after ICE consent. There standeth no media service in the room to be probed.
An independent physical assault · May 2025
The hardware went further than a scan, and the smaller unit was within scope in its own right: a firm took a Gen 4 Pod and a Gen 4 Pod Mini in hand, opened them and assailed the hardware: UART and JTAG upon the debug headers, an attempt to lift the firmware off the flash, a man-in-the-middle in the lab. No critical, high, medium or low-severity vulnerabilities were found upon either device. Root login over the debug interface is refused outright, with no password prompt so much as offered; the firmware could not be drawn out; and no personally identifiable information was found stored upon either unit.
Upon the device
Secure boot is required upon production firmware. The device's own identity keys are sealed within an NXP SE050 secure element, the selfsame part as Pro. USB access is by allowlist. 802.1X with EAP-TLS maketh the room a citizen of the first rank in thy NAC, not an exception within it.
The company, and eke the cloud
Mersive is ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certified, with no nonconformities raised at the June 2026 surveillance audit, and the Polaris cloud unto which this Essentials unit reporteth is SOC 2 Type 2 attested.
Their caveat, which we keep: this maketh not compromise impossible, but it would require an adversary of great skill and effort. The whole architecture, every statement of scope and the audit's findings: the Trust Center.
The whole posture of network and security upon the page, including what Essentials doth deliberately forbear. That candour is the point.
| Specification | Polaris Essentials |
|---|---|
| Shares at once within the workspace | Polaris Essentials can at present uphold as many as 5 live sources, composed side by side |
| Web-join from the browser: no app, no download withal | ✓ |
| Native AirPlay · Miracast · Google Cast (upon the LAN) | ✓ all three, built within: cast from Apple, Windows and Chromebook devices upon the room's network with naught installed |
| Sharing on the move · phones and tablets | ✓ the Polaris app for iOS and Android: share thy screen, thy pictures or a live whiteboard, and command the workspace from thy seat |
| Specification | Polaris Essentials |
|---|---|
| 802.1X authentication upon the network | ✓ shipping. The data sheet listeth wireless security as WPA2, WPA2 Enterprise or IEEE 802.1X — so an Essentials room proveth itself to thy NAC with a certificate even as a Pro room doth. |
| Sharing across networks (no VPN) | ✓ included on every Polaris tier. Direct connections, brokered by the cloud; signalling goeth outbound only, TLS on TCP 443, so there be no inbound firewall rules to beg for, and no VPN |
| Security of the airwaves | WEP, WPA2, WPA2 Enterprise, or else IEEE 802.1X |
| Interfaces of the network | 1× 10/100/1000 RJ-45 (Realtek RTL8211F gigabit PHY), no PoE; MediaTek MT7921: Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax), 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/ax, 2.4 + 5 GHz, 2×2 MIMO; and Bluetooth (MediaTek MT7921) |
| Specification | Polaris Essentials |
|---|---|
| Encryption whilst in transit | Signalling and governance of the fleet run outbound over HTTPS unto Polaris Cloud. The device exposeth no TLS listener of its own, so a port scan of the Mini findeth naught to negotiate against — the encryption that mattereth is upon the outbound leg, not upon an open port in thy room |
| Secure boot · a secure element | ✓ secure boot is required upon production firmware, and no mere setting; the NXP SE050 secure element aboard holdeth the device's own keys of identity and update verification in hardware — the selfsame part as Pro. The secure-element build assigneth an I²C bus to each machine and faileth the build outright for any machine it handleth not, so every shipping unit, the Mini withal, hath one |
| A supply chain true to TAA | ✓ built with Advantech in Taiwan, a land designated by TAA, the bare printed circuit board being the only item in the build sourced from China |
| Signed updates, no downgrade — and a rollback of its own accord should a load fail | ✓ the selfsame firmware mechanism as Pro, for it is the selfsame distro: update packages are tried for authenticity and integrity ere they be applied, and a downgrade to an earlier version is refused, whilst two firmware partitions mean a load that faileth to rise returneth to the last version known to be good |
| An OS of hardened Linux | ✓ a Linux made for this purpose and pared to the bone at the display: no Windows attack surface, no desktop for general use |
| Physical: a Kensington Nano Security Slot | ✓ upon the chassis |
| Protection of content | ✓ HDCP 2.0 |
| Specification | Polaris Essentials |
|---|---|
| True wireless BYOM (the room's AV bridged into thy call) | — Pro alone |
| Display outputs | One. Essentials driveth a single display; Pro ingesteth and driveth two — Pro alone |
| HDMI input: ingest by wire from a room system or a laptop | — Pro alone. The Mini hath no HDMI receiver upon the board, so this is a difference of chassis and not of licence |
| Specification | Polaris Essentials |
|---|---|
| HDMI output | 1× HDMI 2.0 out — one display, where Pro driveth two. 4K (4096 × 2160) at 30 Hz; 1080p and 720p up to 30 Hz |
| Ethernet | 1× 10/100/1000 RJ-45. No PoE upon Essentials — the Pod taketh PoE+, the Mini doth not |
| Wi-Fi radio | MediaTek MT7921: Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax), 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/ax compliant, 2.4 + 5 GHz, 2×2 MIMO; and Bluetooth (MediaTek MT7921) |
| Codecs of video | H.264 encode and decode · H.265 encode and decode · VP8 decode · VP9 decode · AV1 decode · JPEG/MJPEG decode. In service: H.264 beareth AirPlay, Miracast and web-join over WebRTC; VP8 beareth Google Cast; VP9 decodeth the playback of digital signage |
| What the Mini hath not | No USB ports, no HDMI input and no audio-out jack: the rear panel is a Kensington Nano Security Slot, Ethernet, HDMI 2.0 and DC power, and that is the whole of it. This is wherefore wireless BYOM is a Pro capability and not a licence away — there is no USB host whereon to set a room camera |
| Specification | Polaris Essentials |
|---|---|
| Chipset / SoC | MediaTek MT8370 (Genio 510): an ARM SoC with a Mali GPU |
| NPU: silicon for AI upon the device | NPU 3.2 TOPS (INT8) in the MediaTek documentation, 6.4 TOPS at the least precision (INT4), the custom MediaTek keepeth for its present Genio series. |
| RAM · storage | 4 GB · 32 GB eMMC: 19 GB free for storage, the rest holding the system image and the second partition, which beareth an OTA update and alloweth the firmware to roll back |
| The video pipeline: decoding many at once | H.264 and H.265 encode and decode; VP8 and VP9 decode — the selfsame codec surface as Pro, not a lesser one. Composeth into a 4K (4096 × 2160) 30 Hz output; 2+ concurrent 1080p30 decodes required, more upheld; the ceiling is 5 shares at once, set by the memory of the smaller chassis and not by licensing |
| Specification | Polaris Essentials |
|---|---|
| Power | 12 VDC, 2 A, 24 W at most from the barrel jack; no PoE upon Essentials — the Pod taketh PoE+, the Mini doth not. The power supply lieth in the box |
| Dimensions · weight | 58 × 140 × 30 mm. Essentials and Pro are different chassis: Pro is 86 × 184 × 30 mm. Both released data sheets do print 150 × 67 × 30 mm and 204 g for both wares, which cannot be true of two different enclosures; the sheets are being issued anew |
| The clime of operation | For use indoors only · 0°C (32°F) to 35°C (95°F) · 30% to 70% RH about it |
| The clime of storage | From -20°C (-4°F) to 65°C (149°F) · 10% to 90% RH |
| Regulatory | FCC (USA) · UL (USA/Canada) · CB Scheme / IECEE (of all nations) · UKCA (UK) · CE (EU) · RoHS (EU) · SCIP (EU) |
The selfsame policy of openness as Pro: silicon, RAM, and I/O published upon the page.
Aye. Essentials runneth the selfsame Polaris software as Pro: the same workspace, the same cloud, the same posture of security. The differences are the chassis, not the platform.
Some 5 live sources, composed side by side and laid out of themselves as sources join and depart. The ceiling is memory upon the smaller chassis, not a licence nor a reduced build.
Nay, and 'tis a limit of the chassis, not of licence. True wireless BYOM bridgeth the room's own camera and mic into the call, so the peripherals must be attached unto the pod. The Mini chassis hath no USB input. Link is a bridge of software betwixt the laptop in BYOM and the Pro, and the Pro is what ruleth the room's cameras and peripherals. That is wherefore Link requireth a Pro.
One. Polaris Essentials driveth a single display, at DCI 4K, 4096 x 2160, at 30 Hz; Polaris Pro ingesteth and driveth two.
Aye. Sharing across networks is included upon every Polaris tier, Essentials withal. Direct connections brokered by the cloud, with TLS signalling outbound only on TCP 443: no VPN, and no inbound firewall rule.
Hardware trials ship for every ware, direct from Mersive. When the rooms have proved it, we shall present thy regional partner for the rollout.
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