Real-Time Health, Safety and Location Monitoring
Equivital Black Ghost (Live and Track)
Equivital Black Ghost (Live and Track)
Make faster, safer decisions when conditions are hostile and consequences are high. Equivital Black Ghost is a web-based monitoring platform that brings physiological and location data together, helping commanders, safety leads and medics oversee team welfare in challenging and hazardous environments.
Designed for military, first response, industrial and CBRNe operations, Black Ghost supports both real-time monitoring and retrospective analysis—so you can protect people during live missions and improve performance through evidence-based training review.
Why teams choose Black Ghost
- Protect your team in the field: real-time location tracking and remote triage help you prioritise support for those at higher risk, wherever they are.
- Improve safety with better SOPs: retrospective and predictive analysis helps you refine SOPs and tailor training to the individual.
- Objective decision-making: use reliable, high-quality human data to justify work/rest decisions and demonstrate duty of care.
- Heat stress monitoring: supports real-time and predictive heat stress monitoring, including ACGIH core temperature and sustained heart rate alerts (via compatible mobile workflows).
- Heat risk scoring and prediction: provides Heat Strain Index (HSI) scoring and heat risk warning prediction (including forward-looking warning in advance as users approach critical levels).
- Work/rest duty cycle support: actionable insights help define and refine work/rest cycles for each individual.
- Geolocation, geofences and “hot zones”: create exclusion zones and trigger alerts on entry/exit/proximity to better protect personnel.
- Environmental context: add WBGT measurements plus clothing, job type, location and environmental conditions (e.g., temperature, humidity, Heat Index, wind speed) to strengthen decisions.
- CTE (core temperature estimate) improvement: medics can enter externally measured core temperature at the start of an exercise to improve algorithm inputs and visibility.
- Scalable oversight: built to scale from small teams to large deployments with configurable thresholds and alerts.
- Flexible hosting: securely cloud hosted or deployed on premise—your data, your choice—with privacy and compliance-oriented controls.
- Communications-ready: designed to work with Android devices and common comms pathways (Wi‑Fi and other operational comms integrations, depending on configuration).
- Third-party sensor integration: can integrate selected third-party sensors (e.g., environmental and safety sensors) to expand situational awareness.
Black Ghost Live vs Black Ghost Track
| Choose this option | Best for | What you can do |
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| Black Ghost Track | Training, exercises and retrospective review with minimal infrastructure |
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| Black Ghost Live | Live deployments and time-critical oversight |
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How the system fits together
- Sense: capture physiological data using eq02+ LifeMonitor or EX eq02+ LifeMonitor (intrinsically safe options for hazardous-area deployments).
- Transmit: connect via Bluetooth or wired pathways to an Android device or operational comms solution (integration-dependent).
- View: access real-time and/or retrospective data across devices with hierarchical access controls.
What Black Ghost monitors and displays
- Heart rate and heart-rate variability
- Respiratory rate
- Body temperature indicators and heat strain insights
- Activity and movement (including fall alerts, depending on sensor configuration)
- GPS location data (Live workflows), including geofences/exclusion zones
Deployment and data hosting
Black Ghost can be deployed to suit your operational model, with options for secure cloud hosting or on-premise deployment. It is designed for rapid deployment and includes controls intended to support privacy and compliance-oriented environments (including GDPR- and HIPAA-aligned parameters, where applicable to your organisation’s requirements).
Request a quote from J3Seven
J3Seven can help you specify the right Black Ghost deployment model (Live vs Track), comms workflow, sensor selection (eq02+ vs EX eq02+), alert thresholds, and reporting requirements. Contact us to scope your use case and receive pricing and availability.
Frequently asked questions
Do I need Equivital sensors to use Black Ghost?
Yes. Black Ghost is designed to work with Equivital LifeMonitor devices as the source of physiological data. Your deployment choice (Live vs Track) determines whether you focus on real-time oversight or post-mission analysis.
What’s the difference between Black Ghost Live and Track?
Track is optimised for retrospective analysis—collect data during training, then download and review later with minimal infrastructure. Live is for real-time monitoring, alerts and location-based oversight during live operations.
How does Black Ghost help with heat stress risk?
Black Ghost includes heat stress monitoring and predictive workflows, including heat risk scoring (HSI) and warnings as individuals approach critical levels. Configurations can support sustained heart rate and core temperature alerting depending on the deployed sensor and mobile workflow.
Can we use it with geofences or exclusion zones?
Yes. Live deployments support geofences/hot zones and alerts based on entry/exit/proximity, helping supervisors respond faster when a team member enters a higher-risk area.
Can Black Ghost be hosted locally (on premise)?
Yes. Black Ghost can be cloud hosted or deployed on premise depending on your security posture and operational requirements.