Museum installations live for years between tech visits. They sit dark for hours, wake on a guest's approach, run their loop, and go back to sleep. Northstar keeps them running through staff changes, network swaps, and full-week open schedules.
Most museums have one IT person for the whole building. Exhibits can't page them every time a projector sleeps weird. Northstar self-heals, self-reports, and stays patched without anyone thinking about it.
Polaris reads PIR or beam sensors. Exhibit wakes on approach, runs its sequence, returns to attract mode after the guest leaves.
HelmOS opens the floor at opening time, dims for cleaning at close, sleeps everything overnight. Holiday schedules included.
Watchdogs restart anything that hangs. Failed projector? Polaris cycles its power. Failed cue? Sequence retries.
Every morning, the curator gets a one-line digest of exhibit cycles and any anomalies overnight.
Curator drops new video into a folder. HelmOS picks it up, validates, swaps live. No tech visit, no downtime.
Solid-state, fanless variants for sealed cases. Built for years of unattended operation.