Mobile hotspots
Turn your frontline workers into a walking tracking network. The Blecon Agent runs on phones, tablets, laptops, and vehicles — acting as a mobile hotspot that detects nearby devices and relays data to the cloud wherever your people and vehicles already go.
Download Blecon Agent
The iOS and macOS app is the same download from the App Store. Android requires Android 12 or later.
How mobile hotspots work
The Blecon Agent does three things:
- Hotspot — detects nearby Blecon devices via Bluetooth, uses GPS to determine its own position, and relays both to the Blecon cloud. All communication between the Agent and Blecon devices is encrypted end-to-end.
- Scanner — uses your phone's Bluetooth or NFC to read device IDs and register them to your network in seconds. See Register and scan devices.
- Secure relay — carries data from Blecon Smart Beacons to the cloud over an encrypted channel, with no pairing or manual configuration required.
The positioning engine automatically:
- Selects the best available data for each position calculation.
- Excludes stale GPS data (older than 6 minutes).
- Prefers fixed hotspots when available, falling back to mobile hotspots.
No manual configuration is needed — the system handles mobile hotspot optimization automatically.
Blecon Agent and Zebra devices
The Blecon Agent transforms Zebra Technologies' frontline devices into autonomous mobile hotspots. By activating the built-in Bluetooth radio in devices your workers already carry, you get continuous asset tracking with zero additional infrastructure. Workers don't need to change their workflows — the Agent runs in the background, quietly detecting and reporting nearby Smart Beacons and Smart Labels.
The Agent also runs on standard phones, tablets, and laptops across Android, iOS, macOS, and Windows.
Deploy coverage overnight at zero cost
Push the Blecon Agent to your workforce's phones overnight and you have a tracking network the next morning — no hardware to buy, no installation, no extra cost. Extend or reshape coverage at any time by pushing the Agent to more devices.
When to use mobile hotspots
Mobile hotspots are ideal for:
- Zero-infrastructure deployments — use devices your workers already carry instead of installing fixed hardware.
- Rapid rollout — deploy coverage overnight via app push, reshape it any time.
- Extending coverage to areas without fixed hotspot infrastructure.
- Outdoor tracking where fixed hotspots aren't practical.
- Temporary coverage during setup or events.
- Vehicle-mounted scanning for yard and campus deployments.
For areas where you need consistent, high-accuracy positioning, use fixed hotspots.
Accuracy considerations
Mobile hotspot accuracy depends on GPS signal quality. Indoors or in urban canyons, GPS accuracy may be lower than in open outdoor areas. For best results, ensure mobile devices have good GPS signal.