Polaris Essentials spec sheet
Wireless screen sharin' fer every room: the full multi-share workspace at the tier most rooms truly need. Standard meetin' rooms, classrooms, huddle spaces, an' every fleet where the room has to sail itself.
Prints as a clean white datasheet with a date stamp on every page. This page be the livin' version: share the link, not the file.
Not a lite tier, matey. The full platform, scoped to rooms that share.
Polaris Essentials brings wireless screen sharin' to enterprises, small businesses, clinics, an' educational institutions without askin' a soul to install anythin'. The compact Essentials appliance shares content from any device to the display, turns idle screens into digital signage, and joins the rest o' yer fleet in Polaris Cloud, so every Essentials room be managed from the same pane as everythin' else. What Essentials deliberately doesn't do is conference, savvy: rooms that share get the whole workspace at the right price, an' the rooms where meetin's need hostin' step up to Pro on the same platform.
The full multi-share workspace fer all hands
Up to 5 live sources composited side by side, compared, annotated, an' rearranged from any seat on deck, laid out automatically as sources join an' leave. The very same workspace Pro runs, so a mixed fleet be never a mixed experience.
Web-join: no app, no download, no fuss
Guests an' crew share from the browser on the device they walked aboard with, Chromebooks included. No client, no admin rights, no drawer full o' dongles. The URL on the display be the entire onboardin'.
Native AirPlay, Miracast & Google Cast
The castin' paths yer devices already speak, built right in. Apple, Windows, an' Chromebook users share natively on the LAN with zero Mersive software, and every share lands on the same workspace, side by side.
Cross-network sharin'
Guests on LTE, crew on corporate Wi-Fi, the display on an AV VLAN: one workspace, no VPN. Signalin' be outbound-only TLS on TCP 443, so there be no inbound firewall rules to request. Included on every Polaris tier, aye.
Managed by Polaris Cloud
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.
Mobile sharin'
The Polaris app fer iOS an' Android: share yer screen, yer photos, or a live whiteboard, and steer the workspace from yer seat.
Polaris Essentials hardware
Sharin' & video
| Specification | Polaris Essentials |
|---|---|
| Simultaneous shares | Polaris Essentials can currently carry up to 5 live sources composited side by side |
| Sharin' paths | Browser web-join (no app) · native AirPlay, Miracast, Google Cast (LAN) · Polaris app fer iOS an' Android |
| Protocols | WebRTC, AirPlay, Miracast, Google Cast |
| 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 |
| Resolution | 4K (4096 × 2160 @ 30Hz) · HD (1920 × 1080 @ up to 30Hz) · (1280 × 720 @ up to 30Hz), all shipshape |
| Content protection | ✓ HDCP 2.0 |
Compute
| 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' |
Network & security
| Specification | Polaris Essentials |
|---|---|
| Ethernet | 1× 10/100/1000 RJ-45. No PoE on Essentials — the Pod takes PoE+, the Mini does not, savvy |
| Wi-Fi | MediaTek MT7921: Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax), 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/ax compliant, 2.4 + 5 GHz, MIMO 2×2; Bluetooth aboard too (MediaTek MT7921) |
| Network protocols | TCP/IP, HTTP, HTTPS, SNTP/NTP, SSL, SSH an' UDP |
| Wireless security | WEP, WPA2, WPA2 Enterprise or IEEE 802.1X — take yer pick |
| Cross-network sharin' | ✓ 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 |
| Device security | Mandatory secure boot on production firmware · a hardened, purpose-built Linux OS · signed updates with downgrade protection · A/B firmware partitions with automatic rollback should a load fail · a Kensington Nano Security Slot |
Plain speakin': 802.1X means the network itself demands the device prove who it be before grantin' a port. An Essentials room authenticates to yer NAC with a certificate, the same as any managed endpoint.
Physical & environmental
| Specification | Polaris Essentials |
|---|---|
| Rear panel | Kensington Nano Security Slot · Ethernet · HDMI 2.0 · DC power, all astern |
| 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 |
| Drop durability | 1 m onto concrete along any critical axis — face, corner or edge — with nary a cable connected |
| ESD | IEC 61000-4-2 Level 4 · ±8 kV by contact · ±15 kV by air discharge |
| Accessories | Power Supply Unit (stowed in the box) · HDMI cable (not included — bring yer own) |
| Regulatory | FCC (USA) · UL (USA/Canada) · CB Scheme / IECEE (international waters) · UKCA (UK) · CE (EU) · RoHS (EU) · SCIP (EU) |
| Warranty | Full warranty while on an active subscription; on a perpetual license it be capped at seven years. |
| Licensin' | 3-year, 5-year or perpetual |
The device be tested too, by another crew entirely.
Secure boot be mandatory on production firmware, which runs a purpose-built, minimized Linux: no Windows attack surface, no general-purpose desktop. 802.1X network authentication lets an Essentials room prove itself to yer NAC with a certificate exactly as a Pro room does. In May 2025 an outside security firm took a Gen 4 Pod and a Gen 4 Pod Mini in hand — the smaller unit in scope in its own right — opened them up, and attacked them physically: the debug headers, the flash, an' a lab man-in-the-middle. No critical, high, medium or low-severity vulnerabilities were identified on either device. Their caveat, which we keep aboard: that does not make compromise impossible, but it would take an adversary o' significant skill an' effort. Mersive’s information security management system be ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certified, with no nonconformities raised at the June 2026 surveillance audit, and the Polaris cloud this unit reports to be SOC 2 Type 2 attested. The full architecture an' every scope statement: the Trust Center.
Essentials and Pro, side by side on deck
| Polaris Essentials | Polaris Pro | |
|---|---|---|
| Simultaneous shares aboard the workspace | Up to 5 | Up to 10 |
| HDMI output | 1× HDMI 2.0 out · 4K (4096 × 2160) at 30 Hz | 2× HDMI 2.0 out · twin 4K (3840 × 2160) at 60 Hz |
| HDMI input (ingest by cable) | — | 1× HDMI 2.0 in |
| True wireless BYOM conferencin' | — | Included |
| USB fer room peripherals | — | 2× USB 3.0 Type-C, in host mode |
| Audio out (to a soundbar / DSP) | — | Included |
| Power over Ethernet | — | PoE+ |
| The power supply unit | Stowed in the box | Sold separately; PoE+ be typical |
| Web-join, the workspace, cross-network sharin', Polaris Cloud | Included | Included |
The full platform picture, Launch and the hybrid add-ons included: the Polaris fleet.
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