How Blecon Track works

From a Bluetooth signal on an asset to an alert in your operations team. The components of Blecon's asset tracking system and how they fit together.

 

Diagram of how Blecon Track works: Asset Tags broadcasting Bluetooth signals to Hotspots, the Blecon Network processing data, and Blecon Track surfacing operational decisions

The system at a glance

Tags on your assets broadcast over Bluetooth Low Energy. Phones and handhelds running Blecon Agent, or fixed Blecon Hubs, pick up those signals and forward them to the cloud,  instantly turning your existing infrastructure into a network of Hotspots.

The Blecon Network authenticates every sighting, calculates position, and routes it to your systems in real time. Blecon Track turns that into a live map, intelligent rules, and instant alerts, giving your operations team complete visibility over everything that matters.

 

Where the data starts

Location, temperature and logging variants.

 

A Blecon Asset Tag is the device that goes on the asset. All Tags use NeoBeacon, Blecon's secure beacon format, communicating with Hotspots over Bluetooth Low Energy. Each carries a cryptographically signed identity, so every reading is verifiable.

Tags come in variants for different jobs. Location-only Tags report position whenever they're in coverage. Location and sensing Tags add built-in temperature monitoring. Logger Tags work offline, capturing sensor data and uploading the full record when they're back in range. Form factors range from disposable labels to reusable hard Tags, so there's an option for assets that get returned and assets that don't.

→ See the range of Asset Tags

 

Range of Blecon Asset Tags showing location, sensing and logger variants
 

Network Coverage

Existing devices as your primary Hotspots. Fixed Hubs for places without people.

 

Blecon Agent is software that runs on the devices your team already carries. Once installed, each device becomes a Hotspot, capturing signals from nearby Asset Tags as people move through the operation and forwarding them to the network. Coverage builds naturally from the routes your team already walks.

For areas that need continuous coverage but see little foot traffic, Blecon Hubs provide fixed Hotspot coverage without relying on anyone passing through.

→ Learn how Blecon Agent turns frontline devices into a tracking network



Blecon Agent running on a Zebra handheld picking up signals from nearby Asset Tags
 

The fabric of the system

Authentication, routing, security and time. The platform layer that connects Tags, Hotspots and routes data.

 

Blecon Network is the platform that connects Tags, Hotspots, and the cloud. It authenticates every Tag and Hotspot, synchronises time across the system, calculates positions from Hotspot reports, and routes data where it needs to go.

Security is built in at the foundation. Identity is cryptographic, and data is encrypted end-to-end between the Tag and the cloud. Hotspots are transparent relays. They carry data but can't read it.

→ See more about Blecon Network

 

Blecon Network architecture showing authentication, positioning and data routing across multiple sites
 

Where data becomes a decision

Live map, zones, rules, exceptions and the integrations your team already runs.

 

Blecon Track is the application your operations team works in. Every tagged asset appears on a live map with its current position, route history, and sensor readings. Zones define the places that matter: yards, depots, customer sites.

Rules do the watching. Geofence entry and exit, dwell time, return-to-base, scheduled returns, inactivity, condition thresholds, trip matching. When a rule is breached, an exception lands in the team's queue with the context needed to act on it.

 

→ See the Blecon Track features



Blecon Track interface showing the rule-driven exceptions

Why Bluetooth

The right properties for tracking. The barriers, now addressed.

 

Bluetooth beacons have been used for asset tracking for over a decade. The radio has the right properties: years of battery life on a small cell, low cost per tag at scale, and a radio already built into every modern phone, tablet, and handheld scanner. What held earlier deployments back was the infrastructure around them: dedicated gateways to install, pairing models that didn't scale, and security that relied on the link rather than the data.

Blecon's architecture addresses each of those barriers. Tags communicate without pairing. Hotspots come from devices already in the operation, not dedicated hardware. Security is end-to-end between the Tag and the cloud, with Hotspots acting as transparent relays. They carry data but can't read it.

The result is Bluetooth tracking that deploys in days, scales across sites, and works indoors and outdoors with the devices your team already carries.

Cover of the Benefits and Barriers of Bluetooth Asset Tracking whitepaper

Run a pilot in days, not months

An eval kit gets you everything you need to run a pilot. Tags, the platform and Blecon Agent for your devices.

Blecon is designed for Builders

Blecon provides secure Hotspot and Network infrastructure services, supporting development with off-the-shelf or custom & embedded Beacons while giving you full control over where your data lands.

Blecon integrates effortlessly with any cloud service. Whether it’s a dedicated data platform, your backend on AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, or any other infrastructure you choose, you remain in full control of your data, infrastructure, and business logic.

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