01 / COVERAGE
Dead zones are the rule
Trackers using cellular and satellite charge monthly fees with no control over infrastructure you depend on.
VISIBILITY FOR REMOTE FACILITIES
Coverage where there isn't any.
ShepardMesh is a private mesh network that gives a facility live position and safety awareness across its whole site, including the parts of it where cellular and wifi stop working.
The problem
Where the signal stops, the responsibility doesn't.
Facilities are accountable for people and equipment they cannot see. The tools meant to keep track of both were built for individuals, not for the operator running the site.
02 / SCALE
Built for one, not for a fleet
Per-device products are designed around a single owner or a single person. Fielding them across an entire operation does not scale, operationally or administratively.
03 / VISIBILITY
Voice tells you who, not where
Handheld radios connect crews but cannot show a position, a route, or a boundary crossing. When time matters, a check-in is not a location.
How it works
Every device makes the network stronger.
ShepardMesh is a hardware and software system. Small tags report their position over long-range, low-power radio. Devices relay each other's traffic, so the network reaches ground no single transmitter could cover.
1
Tag what you're responsible for
Attach a tag to boats, vehicles, pieces of equipment, or people you need to account for.
2
Cover the site
A small number of solar repeaters and a single gateway extend the network across the property. The site installs its own network, no carrier, no trenching, no IT project.
3
Watch it from one screen
Manage every device from the web. Your team sees live positions, boundaries, and alerts from any browser.
The platform
One screen for the whole site.
The console turns network traffic into situational awareness — built for an operations desk, legible at a glance, and quiet until something needs attention.
Live site map
Every tag, in real time, on your own site map. Positions and tracks update as the network reports.
Zones and boundaries
Mark the areas that matter, off-limits water, closed trails, distance from base limits, and get an alert when one is crossed.
Safety alerting
Boundary crossings, lost contact, and help requests surface with position and time, ready to acknowledge and act on.
Asset register
Boats, vehicles, trailers, tools, boards, every tagged item in one inventory with its last known position.
Track playback
Replay any tag's movement for any window. Reconstruct an incident, settle a dispute, document a response.
Records and exports
Utilization, response times, and incident logs, exportable for operations reviews and safety files.
Where it works
One network. Many kinds of property.
The architecture does not care what the terrain is called. If a site is large, off-grid, and full of moving things someone is responsible for, ShepardMesh covers it.
Marinas and waterfront
Rental fleets, work boats, and moored vessels from the fuel dock to the far end of the basin.
Sailing centers
Instructors and dinghies on the water, and the boundaries that keep a class inside safe limits.
Camps and youth programs
Trip groups, paddle craft, and off-site activities beyond the reach of the office network.
Parks and land management
Crews, vehicles, and response coordination across acreage where coverage is intermittent.
Grounds and course operations
Carts, mowers, and maintenance equipment across the full property and the back lots.
Industrial and remote sites
Lone workers and mobile equipment on sites where cellular service cannot be relied on.
About
Built for the operator, not the individual.
ShepardMesh is building the position-awareness layer for outdoor facilities: a private network a site installs itself, owns outright, and runs without an engineering department.
The company is based in Chicago, Illinois, and works with facility operators to shape the product around how sites actually run.
Safety first, operations second
The product exists to reduce the time between something going wrong and someone knowing about it. Everything else it does is downstream of that.
An instrument, not an app
The console is designed to be read quickly, under pressure, by someone who has other things to do. It stays quiet until it has something worth saying.
The site owns its network
Coverage, data path, and records belong to the facility. Data export is a feature, not a negotiation.
Contact
Tell us about your site.
If you operate a property where you need to know where people and equipment are, we would like to hear how you run it today.
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Location
Chicago, Illinois
United States