Helm Console
Under the dash or behind the instrument panel
The first thing a thief touches. Everything on the boat starts at the helm, including the people who should not be there.
Color-matched · 3–5 yr battery
Yacht & Marine Security
Your yacht has a
$50,000 interior.
It sits unattended 340 days a year.
Marina cameras cover the dock. Not your boat. If someone boards at 2am and takes the electronics, the navigation system, the fishing gear, you have nothing. Until now.
$9.5K
Average loss per marine theft
340
Days per year the boat sits empty
87%
Of marine thefts go unsolved
0
Marina cameras covering your vessel
The Problem
Cameras watch the dock.
Not your boat.
Your yacht is one of the most valuable things you own. It's also one of the least protected. It sits at a marina slip, accessible by anyone who walks down the dock. The marina has cameras on the parking lot and the main walkway. Maybe the fuel dock. But your vessel? That's your problem.
A thief boards at night, takes $30,000 in electronics, fishing equipment, and personal items. You find out the next morning. You call the marina. They check the cameras. All they see is someone walking down a dock. No face. No ID. No evidence of what happened on your boat.
The Solution
Every surface remembers
who touched it.
Place Digital Tripwire nodes throughout your yacht. Helm console, cabin entry, electronics bay, swim platform, engine compartment. No marina Wi-Fi needed. LTE-M cellular goes direct to cloud.
If anyone boards and touches anything, the accelerometer triggers a scan. Every phone, smartwatch, and Bluetooth device within 10 feet is logged. MAC address, signal strength, distance, timestamp. Encrypted. Uploaded. Before they step off the boat.
- LTE-M cellular. No marina Wi-Fi required.
- Salt-air resistant node adhesive. 3–5 year battery, no maintenance.
- Works in covered slips, open docks, and dry storage.
Placement Guide · Interactive
8 spots that cover
your entire vessel.
Strategic node placement ensures full coverage from bow to stern. Each node is color matched to your interior so it disappears on teak, fiberglass, leather, or canvas. Tap a node to see what it protects — or run the demo and watch a 2am boarding get logged.
nodes sleep until touched · or tap one
SENSOR NODE
Vessel event log● LIVE
✓ 5A:C9:E1:44:B2:07 logged at 3 zones · 02:11–02:14 · electronics bay · claim packet exported
Salon Entry
Inside the sliding door frame
Logs everyone who enters the cabin. Nobody gets below deck without crossing this threshold.
Door frame · entry log
Master Cabin
Behind a cabinet or under a shelf
Protects valuables stored below deck. Watches, cash, documents, and everything else that lives in a drawer.
Cabinet mount · below deck
Galley
Inside a drawer or cabinet
Covers the interior traffic flow. If someone is working the boat over, they pass through here.
Drawer mount · interior flow
Electronics Bay
Behind the nav system or radar unit
The highest-value target on most vessels. Nav, radar, sounder — five figures that fit in a duffel bag.
Highest-value · nav + radar
Swim Platform
Stern access point
Where swimmers, dock workers, and contractors board. The back door nobody watches and everybody uses.
Stern boarding · salt-air rated
Engine Room
On the engine housing
Detects unauthorized access to mechanical systems. Outboards and electronics walk off the same night.
Engine housing · mechanical access
Hub (Salon)
Plugged into any 12V USB outlet
Coordinates every node and uploads via cellular. No marina Wi-Fi, no shore network, no monthly per-slip fee.
LTE-M cellular · 12V USB
340 Days Unattended
You're aboard 24 days a year.
The nodes never leave.
This is the whole problem in one picture. A boat is not a house. You do not sleep on it, you do not come home to it, and nobody notices when a light stays off. Between the long weekends and the two weeks in summer, most owners are physically aboard for less than a month out of the year.
The other 340 days it is an unlocked, unwatched, five-figure box on a public dock. The marina's camera is pointed at the parking lot. Your vessel is covered by nothing at all — which is exactly the window a node is designed to sit through, on a battery, for three to five years.
One year aboard · typical owner · 364 days
Aboard
Unattended
0Days you're aboard
0Days it sits unattended
0Marina cameras on your vessel
✓ 340 days with nobody aboard — and a node battery rated for 3 to 5 years of them.
Charter Protection
Your boat. Their hands.
Your evidence.
You charter your yacht for the season. A week later, the captain reports damage to the nav system and two missing rod-and-reel combos. The charter guests deny everything. Without evidence, you eat the cost.
With Digital Tripwire, every interaction is logged. You know exactly which devices were present when the electronics bay was accessed, when the swim platform was crossed, and who was aboard at 3am when nobody was supposed to be below deck.
- Timestamped proximity logs for every charter period
- Exportable evidence for damage claims
- Protect your asset without confrontation · crewed and bareboat
Insurance Claims
Your claim says "stolen."
Now you have proof.
Marine insurance claims without evidence are a fight. The adjuster wants documentation. You have a police report that says "theft of personal property from vessel." That's it. No timestamp. No suspect information. No proof of when or how it happened.
Digital Tripwire provides forensic-grade proximity data that timestamps the exact moment your property was disturbed, logs every device that was present, and exports a chain-of-custody document designed for claims and legal proceedings.
Your claim goes from "someone stole my stuff" to "here's exactly when it happened and whose phone was 6 feet away."
EVENT #8545
triggerheartbeat
devices3
time02:14:07Z
sha256: a91f…c27e
→
EVENT #8546
triggermotion
devices7
time02:31:44Z
prev: a91f…c27e
sha256: 4be2…91aa
sha256: 4be2…91aa
→
EVENT #8547
triggertaken
devices2
nearest4 ft · -35 dBm
prev: 4be2…91aa
sha256: f30c…d881
sha256: f30c…d881
→
EXPORT
formatCSV / JSON
custodyverified
integrity✓ intact
chain of custody: complete
AES-256 encrypted before transmission
Hash-chained, tamper-evident logs
Court-ready chain of custody export
Validated by former FBI, prosecutor & judge
Expert Validation
What actually holds up
in court?
We asked former FBI forensics investigators, federal prosecutors, and family court judges. They'd never seen BLE proximity data used as evidence. Until now.
Nizar Balil
Former FBI & Interpol Digital Forensics Investigator. 20+ years in digital evidence analysis and courtroom testimony.
VERIFIED EXPERT
Lisa Pyle
Former NYC Criminal Prosecutor & Federal Ethics Attorney
VERIFIED EXPERT
Marquis Jones
Former Family Court Judge & Deputy Attorney General
VERIFIED EXPERT
The Difference
Marina cameras vs.
Digital Tripwire.
Capability
Digital Tripwire
Marina Cameras
Covers your actual vessel
✓
—
Identifies who boarded
Device-level ID
Silhouette at best
Works at night / low light
✓
Limited
Logs interior access
✓
—
Works without Wi-Fi
LTE-M cellular
Requires network
Tamper-proof evidence
✓
Footage can be deleted
Court-admissible export
CSV / JSON + hash
Varies
Under your control
✓
Marina-owned
Monthly cost
$19.99
Included in slip fees
Marine FAQ
Common questions.
Digital Tripwire uses LTE-M, which is specifically designed for IoT devices and has significantly better building and structure penetration than standard LTE. It works in covered slips, below deck, and in most marina environments. If cellular signal is unavailable, the device stores scan data locally and uploads when connectivity is restored.
The hub is designed for indoor use and should be placed in a protected area like the cabin, helm station, or electronics bay. Nodes use adhesive rated for marine environments including humidity and salt air. For exposed deck applications, protective node housings are available.
Yes. The hub sends a heartbeat ping every 15 minutes confirming its location and that all nodes are connected. If any node detects disturbance, you receive an immediate push notification on your phone with the full proximity log. You can be 1,000 miles away and know exactly what's happening on your boat.
For a 40-60 foot yacht, we recommend 6-8 nodes covering the key access points: helm, salon entry, master cabin, electronics bay, galley, swim platform, and engine room. The Protection Plus plan supports up to 20 devices on a single dashboard, which covers even the largest vessels.
The hub draws minimal power, comparable to a phone charger on standby. If your vessel has shore power or a battery maintenance system, which most docked vessels do, the draw is negligible. For vessels in dry storage without power, we recommend a small portable battery pack that can run the hub for weeks.
That is the harder case, and it is the one proximity logging is built for. Marina staff, contractors, and charter guests all have legitimate reasons to be aboard. The log does not judge — it records which device clusters were present, when, and for how long. When the nav unit goes missing, the record shows who was standing at the electronics bay at 3am, whether or not they had a reason to be on the dock.
Protect Your Vessel
The threat isn't always
at 2 AM.
Sometimes it's the marina staffer. The charter guest. The contractor you trusted. Digital Tripwire logs every device that came within 10 feet of your valuables, whether you were there or not. $19.99/month. 8 nodes. Full vessel coverage.
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