Acoustic Privacy for Superyachts
What’s said aboard,stays aboard.
Laser microphones can read your conversations off the glass from across the water. ECHO NERO is a discreet, window-mounted device engineered to stop them.
In development. Now seeking grant funding, seed investment, and pilot partners.
A JK Computer Solutions spin-out
Cybersecurity heritage since 1993
Engineered for marine environments
Validation program underway
The Threat
Every window is a microphone.
A laser microphone aims an invisible beam at a window and reads the microscopic vibrations your voice leaves in the glass. From a tender across the anchorage or a car on the quay, it can reconstruct a conversation without anyone coming aboard. The equipment gets smaller, cheaper and easier to obtain every year.
Yachts are the ideal target. Walls of glass. Conversations worth millions. Predictable berths in crowded marinas, in plain sight of neighboring vessels and the shore. A sweep finds what was planted inside. It does nothing about a beam aimed from outside.
Nothing comes aboard
The attacker never sets foot on the vessel. No access, no planted device.
Nothing left to find
No device, no trace, no evidence a conversation was ever taken.
The glass does the listening
Every pane behaves like a diaphragm. The larger the glass, the greater the exposure.
Technology
Attach it. Forget it. Speak freely.
01
Attach
A unit the size of an AirTag suctions to the inside of the glass. No tools, no wiring, no changes to the vessel.
02
Emit
A micro actuator drives low-level, randomized vibration into the pane, engineered to stay imperceptible to everyone in the room.
03
Protect
The glass now carries noise instead of speech. A laser can still read the window. There is simply nothing left to hear.
Design principles
- ●Silent to occupants by design
- ●Battery powered, no cables
- ●Marine-grade against salt, humidity and UV
- ●Removes cleanly, no residue
- ●One window or an entire vessel
Applications
Built for yachts. Ready for any room with glass.
Superyachts and private yachts
Our first market. Owners, charter guests, captains and management companies who expect the same privacy at anchor as behind closed doors ashore.
Executive offices and boardrooms
Glass-walled meeting rooms and corner offices where deals are negotiated.
Private residences
Home offices and living spaces for people whose conversations carry value.
Government and diplomatic facilities
Buildings with strong physical security and one remaining gap: the windows.
Legal and financial firms
Privileged conversations, protected at the glass.
Hotel suites and hospitality
Suites for guests who expect discretion as standard.
Market
A gap no one has filled.
Owners invest heavily in crew vetting, cybersecurity and physical protection, yet the windows stay open to anyone with line of sight. Today's anti-eavesdropping systems were built for embassies and boardrooms: wired, bulky and installed by specialists. None were built for life at sea. ECHO NERO is being engineered to be the first an owner or captain can deploy in minutes and move between windows or vessels.
Existing solutions vs ECHO NERO
Existing
ECHO NERO
Installation
Wired, specialist install
Suction mount, minutes
Form factor
Bulky transducers and control units
AirTag-sized
Environment
Built for fixed buildings
Designed for marine conditions
Portability
Permanent
Removable and redeployable
Roadmap
From concept to the water.
01
Concept and industrial design
Complete02
Functional prototype and lab validation against laser listening equipment
In progress03
Independent third-party testing and marine environmental hardening
Planned04
Pilot program with yacht owners, captains, and management companies
Planned05
Manufacturing and commercial launch
Planned01
Concept and industrial design
Complete02
Functional prototype and lab validation against laser listening equipment
In progress03
Independent third-party testing and marine environmental hardening
Planned04
Pilot program with yacht owners, captains, and management companies
Planned05
Manufacturing and commercial launch
PlannedFunding
Backing the next phase.
We are raising non-dilutive grant funding and seed investment to complete prototype validation, commission independent third-party testing and put ECHO NERO aboard its first yachts through a structured pilot program.
Engineering and prototyping
Bring the functional prototype to a testable standard.
Independent testing and validation
Third-party measurement of performance against laser listening equipment.
Marine certification and hardening
Environmental testing for salt, humidity, UV and vibration.
Pilot deployments
A structured pilot with yacht owners, captains and management companies.
Manufacturing readiness
Tooling, supply chain and production planning for launch.
Team
Led by a security operator.
Andrew Cardwell
Founder, ECHO NERO
CEO, JK Computer Solutions | Industry Advisor, Essex Main Stuart LLC | Publisher, MSP Today
Bachelor's, Cyber/Computer Forensics and Counterterrorism, Maryville University of Saint Louis
Andrew runs JK Computer Solutions, a managed IT and cybersecurity firm protecting healthcare, defense contractor, municipal and business clients. He brings formal training in cyber forensics and counterterrorism and hands-on experience operating security services in live environments.
Read the ECHO NERO origin storyAdvisory board forming.
We are recruiting marine engineers, acoustic specialists and yacht industry leaders. If that is you, let's talk.
Partnerships
Build the future of onboard privacy.
We are partnering with the people who shape life aboard: yacht builders and refit yards, captains and crew, management companies, security consultants and integrators, and distributors serving the superyacht market.
Enquiries
Start a conversation.
Grant bodies, investors, owners and partners. Every enquiry is answered personally by the founder.