One Mini.One workspace, aye.
The very same workspace Pro runs, up to 5 live sources side by side on deck, with web-join an' cross-network sharin', in a hull that fits a huddle room, a classroom, or a whole floor o' standard rooms.
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Inside Polaris Essentials
One Mini. The whole workspace aboard.
Essentials ain't a lite tier, an' it ain't a reduced build: it runs the very same Polaris software as Pro. Every difference between the two be the hull, not the platform: memory sets the share ceilin' at 5 instead o' 10, an' with no USB input there be no room camera to bridge, so wireless BYOM an' Link be Pro capabilities rather than a license away. Same workspace, same cloud, same security posture. Every capability below ships today, aye.
Live sources composited side by side on the display, compared, annotated, rearranged from any seat aboard, laid out automatically as sources join an' leave, up to 5 here, 10 on Pro. The very same workspace Pro runs, so a mixed fleet o' rooms be never a mixed experience.
Why the workspace wins the day→Share from the browser on the device ye walked in with, Chromebooks included. No client, no admin rights, no dongle drawer.
How web-join works, savvy→The castin' paths yer devices already speak, built right in: Apple, Windows, an' Chromebook users share natively on the LAN with zero Mersive software, an' every share lands on the same workspace, side by side on deck.
How the castin' paths work, savvy→Every Essentials room joins the same fleet pane as the rest o' the fleet: analytics, firmware, alerts, health, and idle-screen signage, from one login.
Explore the cloud, matey→Certifications scoped to a cloud say nothin' about the box on the wall, so the box gets its own proof. Two outside crews have had at it: one over the network, one with the lid off, an' the smaller unit was in scope in its own right.
Independent scan by an outside crew · July 2026
An outside firm scanned a managed Pod. The ports that answer be the castin' and appliance functions, and no persistent media listener was enumerable at all, the real-time media path uses ephemeral per-session UDP ports that answer only after ICE consent. There be no standin' media service in the room to probe.
Independent physical attack by an outside crew · May 2025
The hardware went further than a scan, an' the smaller unit was in scope in its own right: a crew took a Gen 4 Pod an' a Gen 4 Pod Mini in hand, opened 'em up an' attacked the hardware: UART an' JTAG on the debug headers, an attempt to lift the firmware off the flash, a lab man-in-the-middle. No critical, high, medium or low-severity vulnerabilities were identified on either device. Root login over the debug interface be refused outright, with no password prompt even offered; the firmware could not be extracted; an' no personally identifiable information was found stowed on either unit.
Aboard the device
Secure boot be mandatory on production firmware. The device's own identity keys be sealed into an NXP SE050 secure element, the very same part as Pro. USB access be by allowlist. 802.1X with EAP-TLS makes the room a first-class citizen o' yer NAC rather than an exception in it.
The company, an' the cloud
Mersive be ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certified, with no nonconformities raised at the June 2026 surveillance audit, and the Polaris cloud this Essentials unit reports to be SOC 2 Type 2 attested.
Their caveat, which we keep: that does not make compromise impossible, but it would take an adversary o' significant skill and effort. The full architecture, every scope statement and the audit findin's: the Trust Center.
The full network an' security posture laid out on the page, includin' what Essentials deliberately doesn't do. That candor be the whole point.
| Specification | Polaris Essentials |
|---|---|
| Simultaneous shares aboard the workspace | Polaris Essentials can currently carry up to 5 live sources composited side by side |
| Web-join from the browser: no app, no download, no fuss | ✓ |
| Native AirPlay · Miracast · Google Cast (LAN) | ✓ all three, built in: cast from Apple, Windows and Chromebook devices on the room network with nothin' installed |
| Mobile sharin' · phones an' tablets | ✓ the Polaris app fer iOS and Android: share yer screen, photos or a live whiteboard, and steer the workspace from yer seat |
| Specification | Polaris Essentials |
|---|---|
| 802.1X network authentication | ✓ shippin'. The data sheet lists wireless security as WPA2, WPA2 Enterprise or IEEE 802.1X — so an Essentials room authenticates to yer NAC with a certificate exactly as a Pro room does. |
| Cross-network sharin' (no VPN) | ✓ included on every Polaris tier. Cloud-negotiated direct connections; signallin' is outbound-only TLS on TCP 443, so there be no inbound firewall rules to request, and no VPN |
| Wireless security | WEP, WPA2, WPA2 Enterprise or IEEE 802.1X — take yer pick |
| Network interfaces | 1× 10/100/1000 RJ-45 (a 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; Bluetooth (MediaTek MT7921) |
| Specification | Polaris Essentials |
|---|---|
| Encryption on the voyage (in transit) | Signallin' an' fleet management run outbound over HTTPS to Polaris Cloud. The device exposes no TLS listener of its own, so a port scan o' the Mini finds nothin' to negotiate against — the encryption that matters be on the outbound leg, not on an open port in yer room |
| Secure boot · a secure element | ✓ secure boot be mandatory on production firmware, not a settin'; the NXP SE050 secure element aboard holds the device's own identity an' update-verification keys in hardware — the very same part as Pro. The secure-element build assigns an I²C bus per machine an' fails the build outright fer any machine it does not handle, so every shippin' unit, Mini included, has one |
| A TAA-compliant supply chain | ✓ built with Advantech in Taiwan, a TAA-designated country, with the bare printed circuit board the only China-sourced item aboard the build |
| Signed updates, no downgrade — an' automatic rollback on a failed load | ✓ the very same firmware mechanism as Pro, because it be the same distro: update packages be checked fer authenticity an' integrity before they be applied an' a downgrade to an earlier version be refused, while two firmware partitions mean a load that fails to come up returns to the last known-good version |
| Linux-hardened OS | ✓ purpose-built, minimized Linux at the display: no Windows attack surface, no general-purpose desktop, savvy |
| Physical: a Kensington Nano Security Slot | ✓ on the hull |
| Content protection | ✓ HDCP 2.0 |
| Specification | Polaris Essentials |
|---|---|
| True wireless BYOM (the room's AV bridged into yer call) | — Pro only |
| Display outputs | One. Essentials drives a single display; Pro ingests an' drives a pair — Pro only |
| HDMI input: ingest by cable from a room system or a laptop | — Pro only. The Mini has no HDMI receiver on the board, so this be a hull difference rather than a license |
| Specification | Polaris Essentials |
|---|---|
| HDMI output | 1× HDMI 2.0 out — one display, where Pro drives a pair. 4K (4096 × 2160) at 30 Hz; 1080p an' 720p up to 30 Hz |
| Ethernet | 1× 10/100/1000 RJ-45. No PoE on Essentials — the Pod takes PoE+, the Mini does not, savvy |
| 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; Bluetooth (MediaTek MT7921) aboard as well |
| Video codecs | H.264 encode an' decode · H.265 encode an' decode · VP8 decode · VP9 decode · AV1 decode · JPEG/MJPEG decode. In service, aye: H.264 carries AirPlay, Miracast an' web-join over WebRTC; VP8 carries Google Cast; VP9 decodes digital signage playback |
| What the Mini does not carry | No USB ports, no HDMI input an' no audio-out jack: the rear panel be a Kensington Nano Security Slot, Ethernet, HDMI 2.0 an' DC power, an' that be the whole of it. This be why wireless BYOM is a Pro capability rather than a license away — there be no USB host to put a room camera on |
| Specification | Polaris Essentials |
|---|---|
| Chipset / SoC | MediaTek MT8370 (Genio 510): an ARM SoC with a Mali GPU aboard |
| NPU: AI silicon aboard the device | NPU 3.2 TOPS (INT8) in the MediaTek documentation, 6.4 TOPS at minimum precision (INT4), the convention MediaTek uses fer its current Genio series. |
| RAM · storage | 4 GB · 32 GB eMMC: 19 GB available fer storage, the remainder holdin' the system image and the second partition that carries an OTA update and allows firmware rollback |
| Video pipeline: simultaneous decodin' | H.264 and H.265 encode and decode; VP8 and VP9 decode — the same codec surface as Pro, not a reduced one. Composites into a 4K (4096 × 2160) 30 Hz output; 2+ concurrent 1080p30 decodes required, more supported; the ceilin' be 5 simultaneous shares, set by memory on the smaller hull rather than by licensin' |
| Specification | Polaris Essentials |
|---|---|
| Power | 12 VDC, 2 A, 24 W max from the barrel jack; no PoE on Essentials — the Pod takes PoE+, the Mini does not. The power supply be in the box |
| Dimensions · weight | 58 × 140 × 30 mm. Essentials and Pro be different hulls: Pro is 86 × 184 × 30 mm. Both released data sheets print 150 × 67 × 30 mm and 204 g fer both products, which cannot be true o' two different enclosures; the sheets are bein' reissued |
| Operatin' environment | Indoor use only, no open decks · 0°C (32°F) to 35°C (95°F) · 30% to 70% RH ambient |
| Storage environment | -20°C (-4°F) up to 65°C (149°F) · 10% to 90% RH while stowed |
| Regulatory | FCC (USA) · UL (USA/Canada) · CB Scheme / IECEE (international waters) · UKCA (UK) · CE (EU) · RoHS (EU) · SCIP (EU) |
Same transparency policy as Pro: silicon, RAM, an' I/O published right on the page.
Yes. Essentials runs the same Polaris software as Pro: the same workspace, the same cloud, the same security posture. The differences are the chassis, not the platform.
Around 5 live sources, composited side by side and laid out automatically as sources join and leave. The ceiling is memory on the smaller chassis, not a license or a reduced build.
No, and it is a chassis limit rather than a license. True wireless BYOM bridges the room's own camera and mic into the call, so the peripherals have to be attached to the pod. The Mini chassis has no USB input. Link is a software bridge between the laptop in BYOM and the Pro, and the Pro is what controls the room's cameras and peripherals. That is why Link needs a Pro.
One. Polaris Essentials drives a single display, at DCI 4K, 4096 x 2160, at 30 Hz; Polaris Pro ingests and drives two.
Yes. Cross-network sharing is included on every Polaris tier, Essentials included. Cloud-negotiated direct connections, with outbound-only TLS signaling on TCP 443: no VPN, and no inbound firewall rule.
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