Returnables and reusable assets

Every asset, every cycle, every site

Track every returnable across your sites, customer sites and the routes between. Long-life Tags travel with each asset for years, capturing position when in coverage. Alerts fire when assets sit overdue at customer sites, miss return windows or fall outside scheduled cycles.

 

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Returnable asset tracking today is fragmented

Spreadsheets keep stock at known locations but go stale the moment an asset moves. Audits find shrinkage long after it's recoverable.

Barcodes and gate-scan RFID give visibility at fixed read points. They tell you when an asset left and returned, with nothing in between.

Cellular trackers fill the gap with live position, but per-unit cost rules them out at fleet scale. They end up on the highest-value assets only.

Operations teams run three systems for three parts of the fleet, with no single source of truth.

Manual reconciliation against rows of returnable assets. The fragmented workflow Blecon replaces.
 

One view of every returnable asset

One live view of every tagged returnable across every site. Spreadsheets, scan logs and cellular feeds become a single source of truth.

Phones, tablets and handhelds running Blecon Agent are Hotspots. They pick up Tag signals automatically as assets move through your operation.

The network follows the asset beyond your gates: 3PL warehouses, customer sites and the routes between.

Rules in Track surface overdue returns, customer dwell, missed cycles and unexpected locations

 

 

 

 

Tag signals captured automatically as Blecon Agent devices pass within range. The network is your teams existing handhelds.

What you'd deploy

Three components: Tags on returnables, Agent on your team's existing devices, rules in Track.

Peel-to-activate BLE Asset Tag, fixed to each reusable asset. Multi-year service lifetime, IP68 for outdoor and harsh environments. Foam variant for cushioned mounting; Logger Tag for condition-sensitive returnables.
 
Software on the phones, tablets and handhelds your team already carries. Each device becomes a Hotspot, capturing Tag signals as it moves.
 
Configure rules for overdue returns, customer-site dwell, missed cycles, return-to-base and unexpected locations. Alerts route in-app, by email or to your WMS via webhooks.
 

 

Location Tag applied to a returnable asset at the depot.
 

Where this fits

Returnable operations take many shapes. Where Blecon Location Tags fit:

Returnable containers
Cages, totes, kegs and pallets cycling between depot and customer. High-volume fleets, multi-year service life.
 
Equipment and tools
Field service equipment, rental tools and instruments moving between sites or held at customer locations.
 
Cross-site asset visibility
Assets moving across your sites, 3PL sites and customer locations. Find what went where, when it arrived and where it is now.



Returnable assets cycling through depots, sites and customer locations.

What changes in your operation

The dispatch team sees every asset, across every site, live in Track. The view stays current as assets move.

When an asset sits overdue at a customer, an alert fires before the next stocktake. Recovery happens whilst the asset is still recoverable.

Utilisation, cycle time and customer dwell build automatically across every cycle.

 

Live fleet view in Blecon Track. Position, dwell and overdue alerts in one place.
 

Replacement rate and asset budgets

Recovered assets stay on the books instead of being written off. Higher utilisation runs the same operation on a smaller fleet. Both lines reduce the CAPEX you allocate to your returnable assets year over year.

Our returnables ROI calculator models the impact for your fleet size and replacement cost. Talk to us to run the numbers.

 

 

 

Blecon returnables ROI calculator. Models fleet CAPEX impact from recovery and utilisation gains.

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.

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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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