Track Vessels Anywhere At Sea with Satellite Connectivity
Remote Vessel Monitoring
Monitor vessel performance, fuel usage, engine health, and onboard systems in real time, from anywhere worldwide. Our solutions integrate with onboard sensors and control systems, allowing operators to detect anomalies early, optimize routes, reduce maintenance costs, and ensure compliance with operational protocols.
Emergency SOS Readiness
Satellite-enabled connectivity provides a critical communication lifeline at sea. From GMDSS compliance to SOS disaster response, reliable communications save lives. With built-in failover options and rugged marine-rated equipment, our solutions keep critical channels open in the face of storms, blackouts, or equipment failure.
Jamming and Spoof Proof Technology
Traditional GPS signals are vulnerable and easy to overpower with spoofing equipment. RockBLOCK Pro STL is a ruggedized, compact satellite-based tracking solution that delivers a secure signal independent of terrestrial or GNSS infrastructure. This PNT service offers a secure alternative when GPS or GNSS Global signals are absent, denied, or disrupted.
Navigation & Logistics
Keep vessels on course with dynamic route planning, AIS enhancements, weather updates, and port coordination through always-available connectivity. Our systems provide the bandwidth and reliability needed for real-time navigation data, monitored via the Cloudloop tracking platform, ensuring efficient voyages and smarter decision-making from bridge to shore.
Recommended Devices:
Monitoring and Navigation
For a rugged, all-weather solution, choose the RockBLOCK Plus or RockBLOCK Sense, both designed with IP68-rated dust and water protection and capable of operating in extreme temperatures from -40°C to +80°C.
Global Tracking
The device is waterproof, ruggedized, and has a variety of mounting options to suit your needs.
Crew Safety
The RockDASH is a carry-on, carry off device which transmits location and vessel telemetry, and offers least-cost routing, two-way text communication and alert functions.
Both devices utilize the global Iridium network and feature geofencing capabilities to keep teams and vessels safe.
GPS Alternative Tracking
Unlike GPS-based signals, it delivers resilient position, navigation and timing data (PNT) even in GPS-denied or spoofed environments, making it ideal for commercial shipping, mobile asset tracking and any application where trusted positioning and timing is essential.
Who uses Ground Control for Remote Maritime Tracking and Monitoring?
Commercial Shipping & Logistics
Offshore Energy Support Vessels
Defense & Government Marine Units
Oceanographic Research
Maritime satellite communications in operation
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14th May 2025Tackling Maritime GPS Spoofing and Jamming Threats with RockBLOCK Pro STL
Commercial shipping and maritime operators are at risk of the manipulation of GNSS/GPS primarily by low-cost GPS jammers. RockBLOCK Pro STL offers an unjammable solution.
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17th July 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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19th December 2022Vessel Tracking
We specialize in hybrid cellular and satellite connectivity to improve your vessel tracking. Manage safety and efficiency through our reliable solutions.
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10th January 2015M2M Communication for Smaller Vessels
‘Big data’ has become part of the maritime lexicon in recent years. It’s hailed as the answer to achieving operational efficiencies, and is part of the reason that the demand for bandwidth at sea continues to grow.
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12th July 2018RockFLEET Approved by Queensland for VMS
The proven RockFLEET global tracking and messaging system, manufactured by Ground Control, has been selected as one of four approved devices in a mandated scheme to install a Vessel Monitoring System (VMS) to all commercial fishing boats in Queensland, Australia.
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23rd July 2018Mapping Ocean Fronts with Robotic Fleets and the RockBLOCK
Led by Dr. João Borges de Sousa of the Laboratório de Sistemas e Tecnologia Subaquática (LSTS) of Portugal, a multinational, multidisciplinary team of scientists have designed, built, and deployed seven autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) in the North Pacific Subtropical Ocean Front using the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s research vessel Falkor.
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20th September 2018Team Peruagus Uses RockBLOCK to Rule the Waves
Researching how autonomous technology can be applied in the maritime industry, six ship science students from the University of Southampton designed and built the Peruagus, an autonomous solar-powered boat.
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5th September 2018The Ocean Cleanup
The Ocean Cleanup came up with an ingenious, cost-effective system that uses nature to help collect the plastic garbage floating in the ocean.
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11th May 2019RockBLOCK selected for KTH Sweden Underwater Sensing Buoy
The Royal Institute of Technology of Sweden developed the LoTUS (long-term underwater sensing) buoy, a system for collecting oceanographic data from perhaps the most remote place on the planet – the polar region seafloor.
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