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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: Register it

Register the tag first, then activate it. After you register, the dashboard waits for the tag and tells you when a hotspot hears it, so you see at once that the tag works.

  1. In Blecon Track, go to Assets and click Add Asset.
  2. On a desktop, a QR code appears. Scan it with your mobile device's camera to open the tag scanner there.
  3. Scan the QR code on the tag.
  4. Give it a name you'll recognise on the map, such as "Forklift 3", and click Add Asset.

Step 2: Activate and attach it

  1. Activate the tag. Peel the backing off a smart label. For other tags, follow the activation step on the tag's hardware page.
  2. Attach the tag where it will stay. Stick an adhesive label on a flat, clean surface. Fix a reusable tag with the mount or tie it came with.
  3. Keep the tag's QR code or barcode readable. You need it again if the tag is ever replaced.

The dashboard shows Tag Connected when a hotspot first hears the tag.

Registering more than a handful? Bulk import takes a spreadsheet of tag IDs, and 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 steps 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.