Run a DockNeighbor Station. Earn your plan.
A DockNeighbor Station is a LoRaWAN gateway at a marina that carries DockNeighbor sensors to the cloud. The DockNeighbor Network is the people who run them. Boats that choose your station as their Home Station earn you credits, and credits earn you a free plan.
Who runs a station
A Network Partner is anyone who owns a station: the marina's head of maintenance, an electrician, the person who looks after the Wi-Fi, or a member who runs one at their dock and lets everyone else use it. A marina can own its stations too, and give the job to a staff member as its Device Admin.
How credits work
A boat owner picks a Home Station for their boat. Each boat that picks yours earns credits for the plan it is on — and it counts whether or not the boat ever visits.
Dockside boat
1 credit
Weekender boat
2 credits
Voyager boat
3 credits
What you earn
Network Partners
1 credit: Dockside. 3 credits: Weekender. 5 credits: Voyager. Free, on a boat you own or co-own.
Marinas
15 credits: Marina Basic, free.
Credits are counted every day. If yours drop below what you've earned, you keep it for 30 days before it steps down. Boats you own or crew don't count toward your own station.
Public, and private to each boat
A station earns credits only while it is public: it carries every DockNeighbor boat in range, not just yours. As the station's owner you see which boats chose it as their Home Station and which boats it has carried recently, by boat name — never their readings or alarms.
Have a spot for a station?
Tell us where, and we'll help you get it on the DockNeighbor Network.