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Add your first tag

By the end of this guide a tag is attached to a real asset, registered to your workspace, and showing its position and movement trail on the map.

Prerequisites

Step 1: Attach the tag to the asset

Fix the tag to the asset first, then register it. Doing it in that order means the tag is already in place, and already being heard by your hotspots, by the time you scan it: you confirm it works where it will actually live, rather than at a desk.

  1. Attach the tag where it will stay: adhesive labels on a flat, clean surface; reusable tags with the mount or tie they came with.
  2. Keep the tag's QR code or barcode readable. You need it in the next step, and again if the tag is ever replaced.

Step 2: Register it

  1. In Blecon Track, click Scan Asset in the sidebar.
  2. On a desktop, a QR code appears. Scan it with your phone to open the scanner there.
  3. Point the phone's camera at the QR code or barcode on the tag. Tags with an NFC chip can be read by holding the phone against the tag instead.
  4. Give it a name you'll recognise on the map, such as "Forklift 3", and register it.

Registering more than a handful? Bulk import takes a spreadsheet of tag IDs, and scan workflows let suppliers or site staff register tags without a Blecon account.

Step 3: See it on the map

  1. Go to the live map.
  2. Find your tag in the Assets list, or its marker on the map.

The first position appears once a hotspot next hears the tag. Tags report periodically to preserve battery, so this takes a few minutes rather than seconds.

  1. Click the tag to see its current position, when its last position was recorded, and which zone it is in.

Step 4: Watch it move

  1. Carry the asset to a different place that is still within hotspot range.
  2. The marker moves at the tag's next report, and a trail line connects where it was to where it is.
  3. Open the tag and scroll to Position & Sensor Data for the full history with timestamps.

An asset's zone history, alert history, and position and sensor data

What you have now

One asset tracked live. Repeat step 1 and 2 for the rest, then set up something to watch them for you.

Next: Create your first alert rule.

Questions? Contact Blecon support — we're happy to help.