GROUND CONTROL DELIVERS SATELLITE IOT, TRACKING AND MESSAGING SOLUTIONS TO SUPPORT GLOBAL, OFF-GRID OPERATIONS.

Ground Control work with customers to understand remote site challenges and provide intelligent satellite communication systems to overcome them, from transmitting information to tracking assets - from anywhere on Earth.

Partner story

With over 20 years of experience in connecting people and things, Ground Control takes pride in pairing customers with the most appropriate device and airtime solution for their needs, ensuring they benefit from competitive pricing and exemplary customer service.

Leveraging expertise and partnerships with industry-leading manufacturers and airtime providers, they work with customers to understand remote site challenges and provide intelligent satellite communication systems to overcome them.

As a result, delivering IoT data, transmitting tracking positions, obtaining remote internet access, or making video calls from hard-to-reach locations are all made possible.

Ground Control’s solutions benefit a range of industries, including agriculture, energy, oil & gas, transport & logistics, forestry and many more. Partners – often sensor manufacturers or software houses – offer end-to-end solutions leveraging Ground Control’s hardware, airtime and developer-friendly APIs.

So, whether tracking military personnel in hostile territories, reporting operational data from offshore wind farms, enabling efficiency metrics for oil and gas machinery, or monitoring the location of endangered species - Ground Control has the solution to connect people to data. So you can count on getting the insight you need whenever and wherever you need it.

Key benefits

  • Seamless connectivity through combined satellite and cellular networks ensures customer data is sent between remote assets and applications in the most efficient, reliable and secure way possible
  • Maintain critical communications and data backhaul, even during a natural disaster, cyber-attack, or power outage
  • Facilitate improved decision-making, emergency preparedness, and worker safety with real-time data gathering, monitoring and exception reporting
  • User-friendly, easy-to-install, and quick deployment solutions requiring no specialist training
  • Enhanced, integrated data management of multiple devices from the Cloudloop platform – remotely activate, deactivate, suspend, and manage devices across various network services

Features

Cloudloop platform:

  • Single platform and source of information for efficient subscription handling, invoice, and device management
  • Track real-time and historical data usage, and manage alerts for effective monitoring, troubleshooting, maintenance, and proactive cost management
  • Seamless integration with multiple applications – via a modern API interface
  • Customer-dedicated private network for ensured security, visibility, and control of IP data traffic, integrated into the Cloudloop application suite

User scenarios

  • Achieve efficiency gains in the oil & gas industry with data-led optimisation of supply chains
  • Enhance customer satisfaction for utilities to improve outage prediction and pre-emptive maintenance via automated “dead zone” monitoring and resilient failover services
  • Help environmental agencies to measure glacier thickness, monitor drinking water quality, prevent landslides and flooding, and provide early warning of tsunamis or forest fires
  • Keep cargos intact with real-time alerts from smart locks, and plot improved shipping route trajectories based on accurate historical and real-time data
  • Expand coverage of two-way communication services for military operatives in remote and off-grid areas, with secure internet access, including VoIP and SMS
  • Increase situational awareness in disaster relief efforts with reliable connectivity, real-time video streaming and satellite-based communication for emergency responders
“The ELEVATE community of innovative IoT problem-solvers enables us to partner with others to create end-to-end solutions to really difficult IoT connectivity challenges.
“Moreover, through ELEVATE, we can offer the IoT Pro airtime in new ways as part of our solutions. It is now available to our customers through Cloudloop, our all-in-one data, device and subscription management platform"

Alastair MacLeod, CEO at Ground Control