Quasar — The open-protocol operating system for vessels

The platform

Quasar sits above Navico, Victron, Mastervolt, MG, Danfoss, Volvo Penta and every major marine stack. Matter-native. Signal K backbone. AI on board, cloud optional. Engineered with McConaghy Boats.

For the integrator, that means a recurring royalty on every hull — for the full ten years after handover.

Standard

Matter · Signal K

On-board AI

67–240 TOPS

Cloud

Optional

Serviceable

10 years +

Catamaran at sunset with Quasar electrical systems labelled — battery pack, propulsion unit, water pump, fuel lines, reefer

The promise

The integrator economics every shipyard wanted, and the technology that finally makes them possible.

01 — INSTALL

Specify and integrate exactly as today.

Navico, Victron, MG, Danfoss, Mastervolt. Quasar adds an intelligence layer above the brands you already trust. Nothing in your workflow changes on the boat.

02 — EARN

Recurring royalty for ten years per hull.

The owner subscribes to Quasar at handover. You receive a share of that subscription for the life of the vessel. The subscription is transferable at resale — the annuity follows the hull.

03 — COMPOUND

Your order book becomes a balance sheet asset.

Each year's installations stack on the previous year's. Enterprise value stops being a function of this quarter's projects and becomes a function of your installed fleet.

How it works

One connective fabric. Open at every layer.

Quasar helm wraparound — three federated 1:1 panels under bonded glass, showing chart, instrument cluster with wind and autopilot, and battery / power / DC system control — Helm wraparound · Three federated 1:1 panels under bonded glass · One codebase, every surface

Inputs — what publishes

NMEA 2000Engine, wind, depth, AIS, GNSS
NMEA 0183Legacy MFDs
Matter fabric100+ devices via Quasar
CAN / J1939Hydraulic, propulsion, stabiliser
STAR AI gatewayProtocol translator to Signal K
Acoustic & vision AIJetson-side analysers

Quasar — the brain

Master AI carrierDual CM5 + Jetson Orin Nano
On-board AI67 TOPS today, 240 roadmap
"Hey OBOS" wake-wordLocal Whisper + Llama
MCP serversignalk-mcp-server
Acoustic range AIEngine / pump / hull anomalies
Cloud telemetryMQTT over WireGuard, owner opt-in

OBOS UI — every surface

Helm wraparound3–4 federated 1:1 panels
Saloon panel14" or 17" touchscreen
Cabin panels4" RK3576, widget mode
Owner phonePWA, offline-capable
Dealer tabletDock commissioning
Fleet viewBuilder + integrator dashboards

PRINCIPLE 01

Open over closed. Your boat speaks every protocol you'll ever buy.

PRINCIPLE 02

Local AI first, cloud optional. The boat works in the middle of the Pacific.

PRINCIPLE 03

Serviceable for ten years. Any qualified marine electrician, anywhere in the world.

The arithmetic

The MFD as single window is finished.

An MFD runs at well under 1 trillion operations per second. Quasar ships with NVIDIA Jetson modules delivering between 67 and 240 TOPS as standard. The numerical gap is not closeable by firmware.

MFD TOPS

→

67–240

Quasar TOPS

For integrators

Subscription Integrator Partner. A new commercial structure for the trade.

Tablet showing photoreal 3D model of the vessel — battery banks, amber inverter, electrical cables labelled, with an active alert on the bilge pump — The vessel itself, on every surface · Tap a battery to see cells, temperature, history · Tap a tank to see hours of supply

For twenty-five years, marine integration has been one-shot project revenue. The fee earned at sea trial is the fee earned, full stop. The boat sails away and the integrator's name disappears from the cap table of that hull.

Quasar changes that arithmetic. The platform installed at handover continues to serve the owner for a decade — software updates, AI improvements, predictive maintenance, owner-app evolution. The integrator who specified the hardware earns a share of that subscription for the full ten years.

Same installation work. Same hardware book. Same shipyard relationships. A second income stream that compounds across the installed fleet.

Continue your existing book

Navico, Victron, MG, Mastervolt, Danfoss — unchanged. Quasar sits above, not instead.
Recurring royalty on every hull

Owner pays Quasar subscription; integrator receives revenue share for ten years per vessel.
Transferable at resale

When the boat sells, the subscription transfers. The annuity follows the hull, not the owner.
Regional exclusivity available

Founding partners receive territory protection for the first 18 months. Limited to one per region.

Proof

Built on fourteen years of marine power electronics. Launching with a McConaghy hull.

14 yrs

Safiery trading history

20+

Export markets

Matter 1.5

Native compliance

AU 2026901047

Provisional patent — EIS

Quasar Master AI Controller

67 TOPS today. 240 TOPS roadmap. All on board.

Dual synchronous controllers with integrated NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Super. Voice and vision processing happen locally — no cloud round-trip, no offshore connectivity dependency. The boat hears the owner anywhere on board.

Speaks every protocol that matters in modern marine power and vessel control: Matter, NMEA 2000, Modbus, J1939 CAN — bridging Victron, Mastervolt, Shelly, Webasto, IKEA Matter sensors, and every major marine MFD.

Compute

Dual CM5 + Jetson

Power

~25 W

Redundancy

Dual sync

Ecosystem

McConaghy Boats

Victron Energy

NVIDIA Jetson

Raspberry Pi

Signal K

Matter / CSA

Next step

Thirty minutes. An architecture diagram, an economic model, a candid conversation.

If you integrate marine systems for shipyards, dealers or owners, we'd like to show you what the next decade of your business looks like with a recurring revenue layer on top of it. No pitch deck. No commitment. Two technologists, one whiteboard.

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