RoGO Communications

RoGO Communications provides an advanced satellite integrated communication platform including devices and software engineered to enable wildland firefighters to track the location and movement of firefighting crews and equipment in remote areas where cellular service is often not available. RoGO DropBlocks provide immediate situational awareness in a wildfire including access real-time, hyper-local fire weather data influencing the movement and spread of the fire. DropBlocks also allow for point-to-point communications so crews can coordinate and align their tactical efforts at the edge. DropBlocks can be deployed immediately to support the initial attack of a fire, the most dangerous risk to firefighters. RoGO Communications is developing an advanced satellite integrated communication solution including devices and software designed to enable wildland firefighters to communicate and access data in remote areas where cellular service is unreliable or not available. We are creating life-saving technology that will help you locate your resources on the ground, provide real-time wind speed and wind direction, predictive analytics, and communications in austere locations. Our mission is to deliver a communication system that will save lives, reduce expense and property damage as well as improve firefighter situational awareness by ensuring a productive deployment of emergency responders and a more effective hazard response execution utilizing state of the art communications systems. On today's large wild land fires, there is a lack of current and consistent communication technology to support the firefighting personnel - resulting in communications inaccuracies, no communication at all and limited timely updates. This is primarily due to the constant hand-off of information between parties (think the telephone game), no VHF or cellular service in remote areas, use of two way radios and the large distances between emergency responders in a remote emergency scene.