Satellite IoT: Making terrestrial applications work anywhere
Leveraging our expertise and partnerships with industry leading manufacturers and network providers – both satellite and cellular – we work with customers to understand their remote site challenges and deliver best-fit, value-driven solutions to overcome them.
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Unlocking Actionable Insights
Satellite IoT enables remote asset access, gathering crucial data for informed decision making. Including out-of-range alerts, historical reporting, and reliable and accurate control signals.
Seamless Global
Reach
Satellite technology expands network coverage worldwide, offering both always-on and backhaul connectivity for remote assets. Ensure your operations remain connected, even if the grid stops.
Efficient Sensor Communication
Discover edge WAN terminals, advanced processing, and sensor connectors. Satellite-enabled gateways efficiently connect sensors, ensuring real-time data transfer, analysis, and control.
Connecting with the Physical World
Satellite connectivity enables sensor and actuator interaction with the physical environment. From digital inputs to cameras and flow valves to monitoring human biometrics like heart rate.
Empowering Industry
Utilities 
Maritime 
Renewables 
Aviation 
Telecommunications 
Environmental 
Government & Defence 
Oil & Gas 
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The work we support genuinely inspires us, and we're proud to solve customer problems like no one else can. Read our latest customer stories, articles and guides from our expert team to learn how remote connectivity is helping support our customers across the globe today.
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December 7, 2023Satellite asset tracking for construction projects
Asset tracking is key to the construction industry, from preventing theft through to improving worker safety; and satellite is key to achieving these goals in remote construction sites.
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September 7, 2023Hyper-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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September 19, 2023RUDICS vs Certus 100: is it time to make the switch?
Delve into the debate: RUDICS vs. Certus 100. Explore faster data, cost efficiency, and superior connectivity options. Ready to upgrade your remote data transfer? Read more.
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July 19, 2023The role RockBLOCK 9603 plays in the removal of carbon from open oceans
Running Tide is developing a global carbon removal system to integrate & amplify natural carbon removal pathways. Here’s how Satellite IoT – specifically the RockBLOCK 9603, powered by the Iridium network – helps.
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July 17, 2023Keeping Canada’s waterways clean and safe with RockBLOCK Plus
2,700 wrecked boats present a hazard for Canada’s pristine marine environment. Incorporated into Barnacle Systems’ Rapid Deploy units, here’s the role satellite IoT plays in the clean-up operation.
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August 7, 2023Wireless connectivity for offshore wind farms: why it matters, & how to get started
38% of the operating costs of offshore wind farms is allocated to maintenance. Condition Monitoring Systems can dramatically lower these costs, but how can operators implement these cost-effectively and quickly? We think wireless connectivity holds the key…
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September 18, 2023Harnessing water, defending data: ensuring cybersecurity in hydropower and dam facilities
Protect hydropower & dam facilities from cyber threats. Learn about state-sponsored & hobbyist attacks, IoT vulnerabilities, and security measures.
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February 23, 2023Empowering climate resilience through satellite-enabled precision farming
Ground Control’s RockBLOCK 9602 is providing vital connectivity for Synnefa’s precision farming tools, helping farmers in Kenya gain greater yields and reduce waste, aligned with the UN’s sustainable development goals.
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February 9, 2023BGAN M2M’s role in soil moisture monitoring to help combat climate change
As well as optimum vegetation and crop management through soil moisture monitoring, measuring soil moisture also helps to inform our understanding of how the natural environment responds to climate change. Here’s how the BGAN M2M service is supporting this initiative.
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January 16, 2023Real-time oceanic and meteorological telemetry with RockREMOTE
MTE’s Viking Buoy has been deployed across North America to deliver maritime IoT insights for the scientific research community. Here’s how upgrading to the RockREMOTE and Certus 100 service has helped further their mission.
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January 9, 2023RockSTAR Provides Vital Tracking Telemetry for Soldiers and Ultra Runners
How JCSys customised the RockSTAR to provide end-to-end, real-time, global tracking capabilities for our Armed Forces & ultra-marathon events.
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November 23, 2022Finding optimum oil and gas sites with 40Geo drifting data buoys
40Geo captures geographical information from hard-to-reach areas with drifting data buoys to aid decisions about when and where to situate oil and gas operations. Using the RockBLOCK 9602, the team can extract close to real-time data under any circumstances, unaffected by location, weather or cellular coverage.
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October 12, 2022How RockBLOCK helps deliver medical care via drone
Cancer patients on the Isle of Wight, located just off the south coast of the UK, sometimes experience issues in receiving their chemotherapy treatment. Transporting the chemotherapy via drone – using the RockBlock technology – reduces the transport time to 30 minutes.
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October 25, 2021Facilitating Renewable Energy with RWE
RWE is one of the world’s leading renewable energy companies, and operates 5 hydroelectric stations in Wales, UK. This is an area of significant rainfall, which can lead to damaging and dangerous floods. But with enough advance warning, RWE can harness this rainfall and use it to supply more renewable energy to the grid. This is how satellite connectivity made that possible.
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July 1, 2022Satellite-Enabled Tsunami Early Warning System
As a critical communications network, there was never any question that ASC’s early warning system would need to utilise satellite connectivity, both for the coverage requirements and network reliability. Commercial terrestrial power and communications networks tend to perform poorly in a disaster – either through overuse or damage to their infrastructure.
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February 4, 2022Enhanced real-time tracking and communications with TracPlus
TracPlus is the trusted real-time tracking and communication platform used by first responders, government agencies, militaries, and other critical operators around the world. Their platform has been developed to deliver situational awareness to first responders, irrespective of who owns the asset, what the asset is, who provides the tracking, or what the platform or signal type is – be it radio, cellular or satellite.
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August 11, 2021Environmental Monitoring and Reporting
A Government Agency responsible for coastal, stormwater and catchment management has assigned Ground Control customer Obscape to assist with reporting on areas such as – monitoring and reporting on catchment management, flood risk areas, storm drains and drainage ditches with the aid of the RockBLOCK.
Ground Control makes remote operations easy
With over 20 years of experience – across all sectors – we specialise in connecting hard-to-reach people and things. With cost-effective airtime, customisable products, and seasoned field technicians, we can support you at every stage of your connectivity journey.
Our comprehensive platform Cloudloop simplifies device, data, and subscription management. Encompassing data delivery configuration, provisioning, security, payments, billing, and analytics, we even offer Cloudloop Tracking for mobile asset monitoring. Customers have the flexibility to use the Cloudloop interface to the extent they prefer, with every function programmable through our REST APIs.
Further, our newly introduced Cloudloop data streamlines data transmission. Say goodbye to extensive data preprocessing. Cloudloop data delivers your information in the desired format, ensuring seamless operations and maximising the value derived from your applications.
