Rangers, wardens, foresters and field officers often work on their own, in remote places with no phone signal. Vygard makes sure someone always knows where they are, and can get help to them fast, even off the grid.
A worker alone in woodland or on a moor can't always reach for a phone, and often has no signal if they do. The honest question for any organisation with field staff is simple:
It runs quietly on the phone they already carry. Nobody has to remember to open an app in a crisis, that is the whole point.
A tap to say where they are going and for how long, or a timed check-in. One press for SOS, by hand or by voice.
It detects a fall or no movement, and notices if a job runs over or a check-in is missed, without the worker doing anything.
If something is wrong and nobody responds, it escalates automatically through your own responders to emergency services.
Their exact location goes out with the alert, including what3words, sent over satellite when there is no phone signal.
SOS routes over a paired satellite communicator (Garmin inReach, SPOT, Iridium), or the phone's own Emergency SOS via satellite, so it works in the woodland, moorland and coast where phones and radios do not.
Runs on the phones your staff already have, with satellite added only where it is needed. Nothing to procure, charge or replace across a whole workforce.
BS 8484-aligned, with a full, exportable record of every alert, check-in and response, ready for your duty-of-care evidence and public accountability.
Chainsaw and woodland work, far from the road and out of signal. The Forestry pack adds FISA-aligned check-ins and off-grid SOS to the safety core.
Rangers and wardens working alone across vast estates, coast and countryside, often public-facing. One safety net that follows them wherever the work is.
Field ecologists and advisers alone in remote SSSIs, uplands and coast. Location and welfare cover where a site visit has no mobile coverage.
Countryside, rights-of-way and tree officers, grounds, enforcement and inspection teams, lone and mobile across a whole district.
Organisations named are illustrative of the field-worker setting Vygard is built for, and are not stated to be customers.
By hand, or hands-free with Siri and Google Assistant.
Raises the alarm when the worker cannot.
Overdue jobs escalate on their own, scaled by risk.
inReach, SPOT, Iridium and Emergency SOS via satellite.
Your responders, then an ARC partner, then 999.
Exportable evidence for duty of care and FOI.
Vygard is BS 8484-aligned. It does not operate its own Alarm Receiving Centre; where a certified response and police URN route are required, it escalates a confirmed alarm to a certified ARC partner.
Vygard routes an SOS over a paired satellite communicator (Garmin inReach, SPOT or Iridium), or the phone's own Emergency SOS via satellite, so an alert gets out from the woodland, moorland and coast where phones and radios do not work. The worker's exact location, including a what3words reference, goes with it.
Yes. It is built for exactly this setting: rangers, wardens, foresters, field ecologists and countryside, rights-of-way and tree officers who work alone across large, remote estates. The safety core is the same for every team, with a pack tailored to the work, for example FISA-aligned check-ins and off-grid SOS for chainsaw and woodland work.
Vygard detects a fall or a lack of movement and starts a countdown without the worker doing anything. If nobody cancels, it raises the alarm automatically and escalates through your own responders, then a certified ARC partner, then the emergency services, with the worker's location attached.
It is BS 8484-aligned and keeps a full, exportable record of every alert, check-in and response, so you have defensible evidence for health-and-safety duty of care and for FOI requests. Timed check-ins and safe-task timers that escalate on their own show you were monitoring welfare, not just hoping for a radio call.
No. Vygard runs on the phones your staff already carry, so there is nothing to procure, charge or replace across a whole workforce. A satellite communicator is only added where a team genuinely works beyond mobile coverage.
Yes. We run a low-risk paid pilot with a single team or region, with a bounded cost and a clear exit, so your health-and-safety lead can see it working before any wider commitment.
More questions? See the full FAQ or talk to us about a pilot.
We would run a low-risk paid pilot with a single team or region, bounded cost and a clear exit, so your health-and-safety lead can see it working before any wider commitment.