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The hub for Ground Control product documentation, specifications, resources and API’s for developers and IoT professionals.

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Manage Your Devices

Our IoT platform, Cloudloop, gives you full control over your devices, usage, network, and data. Seamlessly integrated with satellite networks and continually enhanced by our engineers, it provides real-time insights and value.

Cloudloop – Satellite IoT Platform

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Airtime Plans

We offer competitively priced and flexible service plans for your satellite airtime. Networks include Iridium SBD and Certus, Viasat IoT Nano, IoT Pro and Go-anywhere Pro, and VSAT.

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Iridium Short Burst Data (SBD)

Iridium Short Burst Data (SBD) plans are perfect for tracking and IoT applications like animal tracking, fleet telematics, remote field worker connectivity, and environmental monitoring. With 66 Low Earth Orbit satellites, the SBD service provides real-time data globally, even in polar regions.

Ground Control offers Iridium SBD airtime options, including prepaid tariffs and annual contracts, ideal for companies with larger device deployments.

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Viasat IoT Nano

The IoT Nano service is a cost-effective satellite IoT solution designed for industries like mining, agriculture, and environmental monitoring. It provides low-latency (15-60 seconds) message-based connectivity with global coverage, excluding the polar regions.

Ground Control offers Viasat IoT Nano airtime options with flexible, predictable pricing. Its GEO satellite network ensures stable connections, particularly for fixed assets, and lower overall costs compared to Low Earth Orbit (LEO) alternatives.

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Iridium Certus 100

Iridium Certus 100 airtime plans offer reliable global satellite connectivity for machine-to-machine (M2M) applications like remote monitoring and tracking.

The plans provide data allowances from 1 MB to 200 MB per month, with options to suit various usage levels and are ideal for users seeking flexible, scalable solutions for real-time data transmission in remote or challenging environments anywhere on Earth.

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Our Products

Popular products among our customers

RockBLOCK 9603

The smallest and lightest version in our RockBLOCK family, the RockBLOCK 9603 is targeted primarily at systems integrators and product developers where space inside your enclosure is at a premium. It'...

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RockBLOCK 9602 (MK2)

The RockBLOCK 9602 enables developers to add global satellite IoT connectivity to your solution. Maybe you want to transmit weather information from mid-ocean? Or control your robot in the middle of t...

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RockREMOTE Rugged

RockREMOTE Rugged is the waterproof, reliable solution to your remote IoT challenges, keeping your data flowing no matter what. Securely connecting remote IoT assets using IP or message-based proto...

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RockSTAR

The RockSTAR Two-Way Messenger is a truly global communication device and tracking system. It allows you to send and receive short messages from anywhere on Earth with a clear view of the sky. It work...

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RockFLEET

The RockFLEET Tracker is a truly global tracking device designed for permanent use aboard marine vessels and land vehicles. Its optional LTE Narrowband unit allows it to use cellular networks when pos...

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RockAIR

The RockAIR is a global tracking and messaging device designed for use on the dashboard of light aircraft or rotorcraft. It has built-in LTE Narrowband, which allows it to use cellular networks when p...

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RockREMOTE

RockREMOTE solves the most challenging remote IoT communications problems, offering a reliable and flexible solution for Industrial IoT applications. The RockREMOTE solution combines the RockREMOTE...

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Ground Control has offices in Hampshire and Gloucestershire, UK, and California and Nevada in the USA, allowing us to offer almost around-the-clock customer support.

Please get in touch if you need any support with your Ground Control device, airtime or services; call or email, or complete the form and we’ll be in touch.

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