CompassTrac® Enterprise provides secure, real-time location for real-life impact GPS visibility for BK Technologies radios—empowering wildland crews, SAR teams, and remote field units with actionable situational awareness. Built for disconnected environments, it also integrates with third-party systems like TAKServer for seamless interagency coordination.
Real-Time Location For Real-Life Impact GPS Awareness: Displays updated BK radio positions every few seconds, providing reliable situational awareness across forests, firelines, and remote terrain.
Zetron & DFSI Integration: Ingests GPS data directly from Zetron repeaters via DFSI—no modems, cellular gateways, or extra radio programming needed.
Offline-Capable for Remote Operations: Functions without LTE or commercial connectivity—ideal for disconnected wildland fire and SAR deployments.
Flexible Deployment Options: Supports both on-premise and cloud-hosted environments to meet agency security, scalability, and infrastructure requirements.
Incident Replay & Historical Reporting: Enables breadcrumb trail review and report generation for after-action analysis, operational audits, and compliance tracking.
Field-Ready Scalability Lightweight Architecture: Scales from small crews to large interagency missions—without heavy IT infrastructure or complexity.
Faster, Informed Operational Decisions: Real-time location for real-life impact location updates improve crew coordination, enhance field safety, and support rapid response.
Seamless Setup with Existing Radio Systems: Instantly integrates with BK Technologies radios and repeaters—no hardware upgrades, converters, or reconfiguration required.
Reliable Visibility Without Cell Service:
Maintain awareness in rugged, off-grid areas where traditional AVL and cellular-based systems fail.
Deployment Flexibility That Matches Your Needs: Choose a deployment model that aligns with your agency’s IT policies—whether on-premise, air-gapped, or cloud-accessible.
Stronger Accountability and Incident Clarity: Reconstruct operations using historical location trails and reports to support training, reviews, and internal investigations.
Scales with Your Mission—Not Your Overhead: Supports single-resource teams or statewide responses without increasing technical burden or cost.
Developed with BK Technologies, CompassTrac Enterprise ingests GPS data from P25 conventional systems and Zetron repeaters via DFSI, displaying radio-equipped teams in an Esri-based GIS dashboard. The result: real-time location intelligence for safer, smarter operations in high-risk environments like wildfires and SAR.
Supported GPS-capable BK radios can provide location information that CompassCom can use to display field personnel, vehicles, or other radio-equipped resources in CompassTrac Enterprise. This allows organizations to use the radio system as another source of operational location data rather than relying only on separate cellular GPS devices. Once the location data is made available through the supported radio-system interface, CompassTrac Enterprise can present those positions on the same map used for other fleet and mobile resources.
CompassCom can work with supported BK radio deployments in both conventional and trunked P25 environments, depending on the customer’s radio infrastructure, BK radio models, and available system interfaces. The integration approach is determined by how GPS and subscriber information are exposed by the radio network. CompassCom works with the customer, radio system administrator, and radio dealer or integrator to identify the most appropriate architecture for bringing BK location data into CompassTrac Enterprise.
Location update frequency depends on the radio system configuration, channel or network capacity, subscriber programming, and the method used to transport GPS information. Updates may be configured on a periodic basis or according to operational requirements supported by the radio system. CompassCom can help customers balance the need for timely position updates with efficient use of radio-system resources so that dispatchers receive useful location information without creating unnecessary traffic on the network.
Yes, in supported configurations, location information can be transported through the radio system rather than depending exclusively on commercial cellular service. This can be especially valuable for public safety, utilities, public works, transportation, and other field operations that routinely work in remote areas or locations with inconsistent cellular coverage. The radio network still needs sufficient coverage and the appropriate GPS/location capabilities for the subscriber unit to report its position.
A typical integration requires supported GPS-capable BK radios, including the BKR5000 and BKR9000 portable radios, together with a BK base station configured as the donor radio. The deployment also requires the appropriate radio-system features and programming, network connectivity to the location-data interface, and access to the information needed to identify and map each radio in CompassTrac Enterprise. Requirements vary by system design. CompassCom works with the customer and their BK radio dealer or system administrator to review the existing environment, identify the required interfaces and licensing, and configure CompassTrac Enterprise to display supported BK radio locations alongside other tracked assets.
