Your sensors work wherever there's a station.
The DockNeighbor Network is the stations at marinas, clubs and private docks, and the people who run them. Your boat's sensors talk to whichever one is in range. Tie up at a marina on the network and the boat is watched from the first night, with nothing of yours to plug in.
How the network works
Stations listen
A DockNeighbor Station hears every DockNeighbor sensor within about a mile and passes the readings to the cloud. One at a marina office covers the whole facility.
Sensors just talk
Your sensors don't join a network or need a password. They send by long-range radio, and any public station in range carries them. Nothing on your boat has to know where it is.
Your readings stay yours
The station carries your data; it doesn't read it. Whoever runs it sees your boat's name on a list of boats it carried, and never your readings, alarms or position.
You pick a home station
In the app, choose the station at the place you keep the boat. That's the one the host earns credit for, whether or not you're there.
When you cruise
Leave your home marina and your sensors keep reporting through whatever station is in range: the next marina, the yacht club you're visiting for the weekend, a friend's private dock. There's nothing to set up when you arrive and nothing to undo when you leave.
Out of range of every station, the sensors wait, and the boat's own station aboard, if you carry one, keeps the watch going. Within range of both your own station and a marina's, yours carries your sensors and the marina's is the backup.
Who runs the stations
Anyone with a spot near the water and an internet connection. A station can sit at any marina, public or private, and the place it sits doesn't have to be the one who owns it.
Marinas, yards and clubs
The office runs one for every slip, and gives the job to a staff member. Members-only yacht clubs count as public marinas: listed, searchable, on the network.
A person at the marina
The head of maintenance, the electrician, the member who looks after the Wi-Fi. A Network Partner owns the station and earns the credits, wherever it sits.
Private docks
A dock behind a house or an HOA pier runs a station for its own boats. It is never listed or searchable; the boats there were told about it.
Hosts earn credits toward a free plan from the boats that call their station home. How hosting works, and what it earns →
Boat owners who host their own station
No station where you keep the boat, or a boat that doesn't stay put? Carry the station aboard. It's the same M2 the marinas use ($99), or the M2-4G ($149) with your own SIM so it needs nothing from the dock. The app sets it up in minutes, it never counts against your plan's devices, and it carries your boat's sensors wherever she goes.
A station aboard a boat is private to that boat: it carries only your own sensors and earns no credits. If you'd rather host for the whole dock, put a station on the dock instead and become a Network Partner.
Is your marina on the network?
Join free and look up your marina in the app. If there's no station yet, tell the office about it, or host one yourself.