Six weekends of operating hours. Hundreds of guests per night. Multiple zones, each one needing to reset between groups, fire on cue, and never miss. That's what Northstar was built for.
Many haunts run legacy gear that's been duct-taped together over years. You program in a different proprietary tool every season, and a single relay failure pages the owner late at night.
Polaris triggers a full zone reset between groups: drop the actors back, refill the air tank, re-cock the pneumatics, fade audio out.
From beam-break to pneumatic-fire happens fast — faster than a guest can flinch. Cue timing is deterministic on every node.
E-stop in every zone. Hardware kill on Bridge. Failsafe defaults that drop air pressure and bring lights up.
Cuemaster on a tablet shows every zone, every fired scare, every dropped actor. One operator can run a full attraction.
Last year's show stays in version control. Roll it back next October in minutes. Branch a Saturday-extreme variant on a Tuesday.
Industrial hardware, conformal-coated boards, watchdog services. Designed for six weeks of nightly operation.