Aboard
Local monitoring, source timestamps, retained history and authorised local equipment workflows remain with the appliance.
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Yacht monitoring without internet
How GlassBridge keeps local yacht monitoring, records and permitted workflows aboard while Cloud GlassBridge depends on connectivity.
GlassBridge product guide · Updated 20 September 2026
Aboard your yacht
The yacht’s local network is the starting point.
GlassBridge runs on an onboard appliance. Connected displays and equipment communicate across the vessel’s local network. A loss of public internet does not itself remove the local network or stop the appliance’s monitoring, retained records and supported local workflows.
EquipmentEngines, power, cameras and sensors
Local GlassBridgeOnboard network, displays and retained records
Cloud GlassBridgeSelected status, when internet is available
The appliance, network and connected equipment still need power and working local links. Offline operation is not protection from a failed switch, depleted supply or unavailable source.
Aboard your yacht
What continues, and what depends on connectivity?
Ashore
Cloud receives selected status over the internet. Check the observation time; an old value is not a new reading. Equipment control remains aboard.
Entertainment and outside services
An onboard media library can keep files available across the local network. Streaming services and other internet services still need their own connectivity and compatible players.
Aboard your yacht
Include a loss-of-connectivity check at handover.
Agree which local views and workflows will be checked without internet, how stale sources appear, and how Cloud freshness is explained to the owner. Record the result for the installed yacht.
Plan the network and power foundation · Explore Cloud GlassBridge · Prepare the handover checklist