Born in the field, not in an office.

PZO is built to make forest operations safer, where truckers, forestry workers, recreational users and many others share the same roads. Our mission: make these contexts as readable as a desktop dashboard — for truckers and operators as much as for managers at the office.

These roads are just wide enough for two vehicles to pass, with single-lane forks where you have to pull over to let the oncoming vehicle through. To coordinate, people rely on the radio. Yet in Quebec, road crashes account for 25 to 30% of accidental workplace deaths and cost $131,200 per injury on average (IRSST, 2021). Across tens of thousands of kilometers of single-lane forest roads, often with no signal, that risk is a daily reality. Because radio has its flaws: the driver still has to remember to call out their position — at the right kilometer, the right moment, the right channel — and others have to be listening and in range. One missed call-out and a driver can come face-to-face with a loaded truck around a blind bend.

PZO is a mobile app for field operators and a web dashboard for managers. When two vehicles approach, drivers get a voice and visual alert — even outside cellular coverage, whenever the phone catches the satellite.

What makes PZO usable where the network ends: Rogers' direct-to-mobile satellite connection, which PZO runs on (demonstrated in the field). Designed so the phone connects to the satellites with no antenna or extra hardware.

Learn more about direct-to-mobile satellite →