Lone Worker Tracking & Monitoring

If you're travelling outside cellular coverage frequently, or for an extended period of time,
satellite-enabled tracking and monitoring devices provide a safety lifeline.

From site inspectors to security forces; heavy machinery operators to healthcare providers,
Ground Control designs and builds solutions to ensure you remain connected, anywhere on the planet.

Our Services for Lone Workers

Maximizing Your Team's Safety

Global Coverage

With Ground Control’s tracking and monitoring solutions, you’ll never lose contact with your team members. We work with leading satellite network operators to ensure that you always have reliable, low-latency coverage.

Rugged Tough Devices

While we offer a wide range of tracking devices, RockSTAR is the toughest. It’ll cope with being dropped, thrown, and submerged. It’s waterproof, works in extreme temperatures, and has survived months at sea.

Real-time Location Stamps

If you need to send help to your lone worker, you need to know where they are with pinpoint-accuracy. Our globally-enabled solutions give you this peace of mind, so you can find your people quickly in an emergency.

Missed Check-In Alerts

You can set up time-based alerts for missed check-ins, and automatically change the frequency of these based on the user’s location within or outside a geofenced area. This is an ideal safety feature when the risks are high.

Dashboard to Track and Monitor Lone Workers

Cloudloop Tracking is a map-based interface delivering precise insights into your team's location(s), speed and heading.
Real-time Position Monitoring Historical Position Reporting Instant Alert Notifications Map-Based Interface
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Real-time Position Monitoring

Our real-time, cloud-based dashboard gives you real-time visibility of where your team members are – their exact location, speed and heading – no matter where they are on the globe.

  • Easy to use
  • Optimized for small screens
  • Remotely update the transmission frequency of your devices
  • Initiate Over The Air (OTA) upgrades.

NB: if you already have a tracking platform that you’ve purchased or developed, our developer API makes it easy for you to pass data through to your preferred destination.

Historical-Positions-Report

Historical Position Reporting and Event Tracking

Step through historic positions to see precisely where each of your team members were at a given date and time.

  • Report includes longitude, latitude, course and speed*
  • Speed monitoring report – analyze the speed of your asset over time
  • Timeline of historical device events such as signal loss, and the start/finish of journey.
Cloudloop-Tracking-Historical-Position-Report

Instant Alert Notifications

RockSTAR supports multiple alert options, chief among them the red button for emergency assistance. Pushing this button not only notifies all of the nominated contacts, it also appears visually in the dashboard, date and time-stamped.

  • Visual alerting when an asset has pushed the red button
  • Quickly identify and address any potential issues.

RockSTAR also features programmable check-in countdown timers, and a ‘high risk’ feature that allows you to reduce the time between check-ins when your team member enters or exits a geofence.

Alert features and notifications are available on all Rock tracking devices (also including RockAIR, RockFLEET, and RockDASH).

Map-Based-Interface-Cloudloop-Tracking

Map-Based Interface

With multiple mapping options available, including terrain and satellite imagery, you can choose the one that best suits your needs.

  • Flexible asset descriptions – upload images of your team members or vehicles, and add important notes to personalize your user experience
  • Organize your team members into useful groups for ease of management

NB: if you already have a tracking platform that you’ve purchased or developed, our developer API makes it easy for you to pass data through to your preferred destination.

Satellite Tracking Devices for Lone Workers

There are, of course, many more data points we could put into a comparison chart like this; we’ve tried to choose the ones that highlight the greatest differences between the devices. All are very effective, it just depends how you intend to use them!

RockSTAR

GSatSolar

Garmin inReach Mini 2

Best For:

Military / Security; Remote Healthcare Providers; Site Inspectors; Heavy Machinery Operators

Adventure Racing Events; Expeditions / Group Travel; Tracking Equipment

Hikers & Explorers; Journalists; Recreational Sailors; Individual Aviators

Dimensions

14.4 x 7.6 x 3.6 cm

5.8 x 3.2 x 1.8 cm

5.17 x 9.9 x 2.61 cm

Weight

303 g

22.2 g

100 g

Ingress Protection

IP67

IP67

IPX7

Battery Life

Up to 504 hours at 15-minute tracking; up to 91 days at 60-minute tracking; up to 12 months transmitting once per day

Solar powered, so will keep going if installed correctly, and there is adequate sunlight; end of service life is set to 5 years

Up to 90 hours at 10-minute tracking (default); up to 24 days at 30-minute tracking

Coverage

Global (using Iridium)

Covers 120 countries (using Globalstar)

Global (using Iridium)

Fastest Tracking Update

15 seconds

60 minutes

10 minutes

Messaging

Messaging via Connected App

Messaging to Email / SMS from Device

Max Message Length

5000+ characters

n/a - tracking only

160 characters

Alerts

SOS Button

Notifies nominated contacts

No alert function

Notifies GEOS Search and Rescue

Distress Context

APIs / Platform

Open APIs

With Limitations

Open Bluetooth API

Tracking Platform Included

Geofencing Capabilities

“Our systems have proven their life-saving faculty on multiple occasions. We have built our reputation on the reliability of the RockSTAR and the data it provides. It’s how we are able to host some of the most high-risk events for both our UK military and civilian clients alike.”

Nigel Kenyon, Head of Tracking Services, JCSys

Who Uses Ground Control's Lone Worker Tracking Solutions?

Military Personnel

Whether you're on exercise, peace-keeping or deployed in an active war zone, communication with your base of operations is essential.

Search & Rescue Teams

Search and rescue operations often involve people, vehicles, boats and even aircraft travelling into remote regions without reliable cellular coverage.

Rural Healthcare Providers

Doctors and nurses who travel into remote communities deliver essential primary care to patients without easy access to medical facilities.

Conservationists

Protecting endangered species from poaching and other threats is high-risk. Keeping your field personnel connected helps to ensure their safety.

Tour Guide Leaders

If you're taking clients into the wilderness, for their safety and comfort, you need to stay connected with your base of operations.

Security Forces

If you're responsible for securing remote facilities, being able to get help when needed, and to your exact location, is essential.

Heavy Machinery Operators

Forestry, Mining and Construction can take place outside of cellular coverage. Tracking is essential for smooth operations and team safety.

Site Inspectors

From oil wells to construction sites, gas pipelines to rail tracks, there are many occasions where site inspectors may not have reliable cellular coverage.

Platform Developers

If you have developed a platform for lone worker safety, our well-documented APIs make it easy for location and alert data to be passed through.

You're in Great Company

Lone Worker Tracking and Monitoring in Action

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