Facilitating Industrial Control Systems (ICS) is a key part of Ground Control’s mission. The sectors we work with – Energy, Water, Transport, Manufacturing and Pharmaceuticals – seek to ensure secure and reliable transmission of data from field RTUs to distributed control or SCADA systems.
Businesses have a choice of cellular or satellite connectivity as their primary means of communication, with one or the other providing a failsafe. Cellular is low cost but less reliable and secure than satellite, and, as the Colonial pipeline ransomware incident proved in 2021, security in the Industrial and Power sectors is frequently mission critical.