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
Real-time Position Monitoring
Historical Position Reporting
Instant Alert Notifications
Map-Based Interface
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 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.
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
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Weight |
303 g |
22.2 g |
100 g |
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Ingress Protection |
IP67 |
IP67 |
IPX7 |
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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 |
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Coverage |
Global (using Iridium) |
Covers 120 countries (using Globalstar) |
Global (using Iridium) |
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Fastest Tracking Update |
15 seconds |
60 minutes |
10 minutes |
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Messaging |
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Messaging via Connected App |
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Messaging to Email / SMS from Device |
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Max Message Length |
5000+ characters |
n/a - tracking only |
160 characters |
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Alerts |
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SOS Button |
Notifies nominated contacts |
No alert function |
Notifies GEOS Search and Rescue |
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Distress Context |
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APIs / Platform |
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Open APIs |
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With Limitations |
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Open Bluetooth API |
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Tracking Platform Included |
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Geofencing Capabilities |
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“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
Search & Rescue Teams
Rural Healthcare Providers
Conservationists
Tour Guide Leaders
Security Forces
Heavy Machinery Operators
Site Inspectors
Platform Developers
Lone Worker Tracking and Monitoring in Action
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Hyper-Accurate Tracking and Messaging for Snowmobile Clubs
Snowmobiling is one of Canada’s favourite winter pastimes, and grooming the trails is essential. Here’s how volunteers are accurately tracked, and compensated, for their efforts.
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RockSTAR Provides Vital Tracking Telemetry for Soldiers and Ultra Runners
How JCSys customized the RockSTAR to provide end-to-end, real-time, global tracking capabilities for the UK’s Armed Forces & ultra-marathon events.
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RockSTAR Used in Iridium Certus Demo
British search and rescue charity SARAID hosted an immersive, natural disaster search and rescue live demonstration day in association with Wireless Innovation and Iridium.
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Promoting Marine Security
We provide RockSTAR units to a large number of marine security and anti-piracy firms worldwide. They provide accurate tracking, allowing the position of your teams/vessels to be monitored while in transit. They also give a secure and private means of communication for onboard team leaders.
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Remote Worker Security: Journalism
Journalists travel to dangerous areas, with both known and unknown dangers. You can’t rely on communication facilities on the ground such as mobile phone (GSM) networks as these can be easily turned off by authorities with little or no notice.
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Horticultural – Faraway Fieldwork
Various horticultural organisations have approached us over the last few years to provide remote worker tracking for their field workers.
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Iceberg Monitoring with the RockSTAR
The Laboratory for Cryospheric Research is dedicated to the monitoring and understanding of the frozen earth, including glaciers, ice caps, ice shelves, snow, and sea ice.
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