May 12, 2025  10-year anniversary

Ten years have flown by like one day! And even though we're no longer a startup, we still love what we do. And maybe even more so.

10-year anniversary

In ten years, we've created 28 devices for you. And not just created, we are constantly working on our products, making them better and better. For example, our first product, Digital Barometer, is undergoing its third major update.

We are happy to announce that on May 10, Digital Barometer YDBC-06, as well as Digital Thermometer YDTC-14, Humidity Sensor YDHS-02 and Exhaust Gas Sensor YDGS-02 (new generation) passed NMEA 2000 certification and will be available for sale in mid-June. The new sensors have Wi-Fi (which, of course, can be turned off for safety and to save electricity), support integration into smart homes and smart boats via the MQTT protocol, and store date and time stamped measurement history, so the barometer becomes a real barograph!

Barometer YDBC-06 becomes a real barograph

To configure the Thermometer (to change, for example, the data type from air temperature to cabin temperature), we came up with a clever way 10 years ago to control the instrument settings by sequentially changing the magnetic variation on an MFD. A few years later we released the second generation, where it was already possible to configure the instrument through special strings that can be sent through NMEA 2000 gateways. Not only ours, but any manufacturer, such as ActiSense or Maretron.

Unfortunately, MFD haven't gotten much better since then, and it's still impossible to set up a third-party device from an MFD. But now it is possible to connect to our devices via Wi-Fi and do it all in a convenient interface. If you turn off Wi-Fi, the current consumption of our third generation of instruments is no greater than that of the previous generation.

In these ten years, more than 60000 of our devices have found a new home on your boats. And we sometimes envy them: our Autopilot recently crossed the ocean in a sailboat, and we haven't been able to go that far in a long time. This year we are sure to please you with a new version of Autopilot, which will be able to work without a rudder sensor (which is especially important on large boats with outboard motor) and will support control via web-interface.

Most importantly, we have made dozens or even hundreds of new friends around the world. We are proud of your trust and value our friendship. And these are not just pretty words. It is great to work with passionate people. But the greatest happiness is working with people who are in love with the same thing you are, feeling their passion and genuinely trying to help each other. Some of our products would not have come about without the active help of our users.

A lot of companies want to grow, or enter new markets, or overtake someone. We don't. We will remain a small company to stay close to our users, still feel them, and offer them products that can gracefully solve their problems and make them happy. That's the kind of great plan we have for the next ten years!

And tomorrow we won't answer emails, tomorrow we'll go to a corporate regatta and have fun! But we have a gift for you: with coupon YD10YEARS you can buy our products with a small discount until the end of the month. Hugs, kisses, and we'll see you on Wednesday!

 

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