Sovereign Shelf Commander

Sovereign Shelf Commander — on-premise appliance that runs the full Sovereign Shelf stack inside your store.

A small, fanless mini PC pre-loaded with OpenWrt and the Sovereign Shelf service container. Runs the gateway, orchestrator, and renderer locally so tag updates, pick-by-light sessions, and POS sync survive an internet outage. Required for Guardian and Vault.

Specifications

• CPU: Intel Pentium N3710 quad-core
• Memory: 8 GB DDR3L
• Storage: 128 GB mSATA SSD
• Network: 4 x Intel i226-V 2.5 GbE NICs (WAN, beacon LAN, customer LAN, management)
• OS: OpenWrt 24.x with Sovereign Shelf LXC container pre-installed
• Power: 12 V DC external adapter, ~12 W idle
• Capacity: up to 10,000 tags per Commander
• Connectivity to cloud: WireGuard tunnel (heartbeat + telemetry)

Highlights

• Offline-resilient — price tags, pick-by-light, and POS sync all keep working if the WAN drops.
• POS integration runs on the Commander — customer credentials never leave the building.
• Three USB-stick onboarding flow — image, provisioning, identity — ships ready to deploy without a serial cable.
• OTA bundles deliver updates over WireGuard with snapshot-rollback if a healthcheck fails after reboot.
• Multi-NIC isolation segregates beacon traffic, customer LAN, and management on physically separate ports.

Where it fits

• Required for Guardian (cloud + on-prem) and Vault (air-gapped) deployments.
• One Commander per store; multi-Commander sites are a special-order engagement above 10,000 tags.
• Not required for Sentinel — cloud-only deployments route through the hosted gateway.