Lone Worker Tracking

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

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Maximizing Your Team's Safety

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Cloudloop Tracking: Track and Monitor Lone Workers

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Real-time Location Tracking

 

Cloudloop provides live updates on the exact location of your lone workers, ensuring they’re safe and on track. This feature is critical for timely intervention in emergencies and for maintaining operational efficiency.

 

  • Monitor worker movements in real time, anywhere in the world
  • Pinpoint exact locations for faster emergency response
  • Verify worker adherence to assigned routes or operational areas.

Custom Alerts for Immediate Action

 

Be the first to know when something is wrong. Cloudloop allows you to set customized alerts based on location, activity, or manual triggers, ensuring quick responses to potential risks.

 

  • Get notified instantly if a worker crosses geofences or goes off track
  • Receive alerts for stationary workers when they should be moving, or vice versa
  • Detect emergencies immediately with panic button activations.

Seamless, Two-Way Communication

 

Stay connected to your lone workers at all times, even in areas without cellular coverage. Cloudloop enables reliable two-way text communication via satellite, providing reassurance and operational clarity.

 

  • Allow workers to send status updates or request assistance
  • Deliver instructions or updates directly to workers in the field
  • Reduce misunderstandings with clear, concise communication.

Historical Route and Activity Logging

 

Understand where your workers have been and what they’ve been doing. Cloudloop’s historical data helps you analyze operations, improve protocols, and reduce future risks.

 

  • Access detailed logs of worker movements and activities
  • Review data to identify trends or inefficiencies
  • Use logs for compliance, reporting, and training purposes.

Scalable and Easy to Use

 

Cloudloop is designed to adapt to your organization’s size and complexity. Its intuitive interface ensures that anyone on your team can monitor lone workers effectively.

 

  • Scale effortlessly from small teams to large, distributed workforces
  • Navigate the platform easily with a user-friendly dashboard
  • Reduce training time with straightforward, intuitive tools.

API Integration for Operational Efficiency

 

Integrate Cloudloop seamlessly into your existing systems to centralize data and improve decision-making. The platform’s API ensures compatibility with third-party tools and workflows.

 

  • Sync tracking data with existing safety or operational platforms
  • Automate reporting and data sharing for better efficiency
  • Save time by reducing the need for manual data input.

Ruggedized Solutions for Tough Environments

 

Paired with Ground Control’s robust hardware, Cloudloop is built for the harshest conditions.

It ensures continuous connectivity and performance, even in extreme environments like mining sites, dense forests, and remote inspection locations.

Cloudloop Tracking is integrated with the following tracking devices:

 

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.

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

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