What is Blecon?
Blecon is a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) platform for asset tracking and real-time location, indoors and outdoors. It provides secure data exchange and works with the phones and handhelds your team already carries.
Unlike traditional tracking platforms that only receive advertising data from tags, Blecon supports full secure bidirectional data exchange between tags and the cloud. Tracking is the primary use case today, but the platform's capabilities go far beyond location, enabling sensor data collection, tag configuration, and encrypted communication.
How it works
- Tags broadcast Bluetooth signals continuously.
- Hotspots detect those signals and relay them to the Blecon cloud.
- The cloud calculates tag positions using the best available signal data.
- Blecon Track shows those positions on a live map (indoors and outdoors in a single view), stores the full position history for every asset, evaluates your alert rules continuously, and notifies your team when something needs attention.
If you want to consume position data in your own systems, you can route it directly via webhooks, AWS integrations, or the Tracker API, without going through the Track UI.
Deploy coverage exactly where you need it
You control where your tracking network reaches. Hotspots (the receivers that detect tags) can be phones and handhelds your workers already carry (phones, tablets, Zebra handhelds) or dedicated hardware gateways mounted in your facilities.
The Blecon Agent turns existing phones and handhelds into hotspots. Push it to your workforce's phones overnight and you have coverage the next morning, with zero hardware installation and zero extra cost. Extend or reshape coverage at any time by adding hotspots or pushing the Agent to more phones.
This means you can deploy a full tracking network using phones and handhelds you already own, in the locations you actually need coverage.
Secure by design
Security is between the tag and the cloud, not between the tag and the hotspot. Hotspots are simple relays that don't pair with tags, don't hold encryption keys, and can't decrypt tag data. This means zero security configuration at the edge and no risk from a compromised hotspot.
Blecon supports secure encrypted advertising via the NeoBeacon standard, with AES-128 authenticated encryption and replay protection on every BLE frame.
Hardware ecosystem
Blecon partners with hardware manufacturers, including Nordic Semiconductor, Zebra Technologies, Molex, MOKO SMART, and Ezurio, to enable Blecon support in their tags. You choose the hardware that fits your deployment and can swap vendors without changing your infrastructure or software. From reusable tags to ultra-thin disposable Smart Labels for item-level tracking, there's a tag for every use case. See Supported tags.
What you can do with it
- Deploy tracking coverage overnight using phones and handhelds your workers already carry, with no dedicated hardware required
- See every asset on a live map, indoors and outdoors in one unified view
- Review the complete position history for any asset: where it was, when, and for how long, with 3 months of searchable records
- Define rules that monitor your operation 24/7 and trigger alerts the moment a condition is met
- Manage alerts through a triage workflow (acknowledge, assign to a team member, resolve), not just a stream of notifications
- Build custom dashboards and automations via the Tracker API, which has full parity with the Track UI
Getting access
Blecon is available through our sales team. Talk to an expert to get your account set up, or order an evaluation kit to try the hardware.
Next steps
Already have an account? Set up your first tracking network.