Bluetooth asset tags put your tools, small plant and equipment on the map — automatically. Low-cost BLE tags are detected by gateways in your vehicles and at fixed sites, so every item’s last-seen location and current vehicle assignment updates itself, with no scanning and no wiring.
Multi-year tag batteries · No scanning, no manual check-in · Works with your existing Vision trackers as gateways · UK support and one platform for tags, trackers and vehicles
Bluetooth asset tags are small, battery-powered BLE beacons you fix to tools, small plant and equipment. They don’t need their own SIM or GPS: nearby gateways — GPS trackers in your vans and site equipment, or fixed readers in depots and stores — detect each tag and report its identity and location to the platform. The result is an automatic, always-current record of where every tagged item was last seen and which vehicle or site it’s with.
Stick, screw or cable-tie a BLE tag to each item — tags are small, sealed and run for years on a coin cell.
Bluetooth-enabled GPS trackers already fitted to your vans, trucks and plant act as mobile gateways; fixed gateways cover depots, workshops and stores.
Every detection is logged with time, place and gateway, building a live picture of which items are in which vehicle, on which site, or missing.
The same BLE link carries sensor data — temperature, movement and more — from tag-based wireless sensors, including EN 12830 cold-chain sensors.
When a tagged tool is loaded into a van, the van’s tracker sees it — so the platform knows, without anyone scanning anything, that the breaker is in van 14 and the pipe bender never left the depot. Drivers get a truthful answer to “have I got everything?” before leaving site, and managers stop buying duplicates of kit that was never actually lost.
Most tools don’t vanish in burglaries — they’re left on site, put in the wrong van, or drift into someone’s garage. Tags close that gap: last-seen location and vehicle for every item, alerts when a tagged item is separated from its assigned vehicle or leaves a geofenced site, and an evidence trail that makes kit walk off less often in the first place.
End the Monday-morning “who’s got the…” ring-round; every item’s location and vehicle assignment is on screen.
Tools stop disappearing quietly; accountability improves without accusations, because the record is automatic and neutral.
Tags cost a fraction of a GPS tracker each, so it’s economic to tag everything; fewer replacement purchases and fewer duplicate buys hit the P&L directly.
One architecture: the Bluetooth-enabled trackers you fit for vehicles and large assets double as the gateway network for tags, all reporting into the same platform.
Power tools, test kit and ladders tracked van-by-van — see Field Services.
Attachments, buckets, breakers and small plant that GPS trackers don’t suit — see Construction & Plant.
Tag small hire kit so it comes back — see Rental & Hire.
BLE temperature sensors report through the same gateways for refrigerated loads and stores — see temperature monitoring.
Use GPS trackers for high-value, free-roaming assets that travel on their own — trailers, containers, plant. Use Bluetooth tags for everything that travels with a vehicle or lives at a site — tools, attachments, small equipment. Most operations use both together: trackers on the big kit acting as gateways for the tags on the small kit. See our full asset tracking range.
You’re pricing three things: tags (per item, low cost), gateways (often zero extra if your vehicles already carry Bluetooth-enabled Vision trackers; fixed gateways for depots as needed) and the platform subscription. Tell us how many items, vehicles and sites, and we’ll return an itemised quotation. Get a quote → Prefer to talk first? Call 0800 020 9339.
Each tag broadcasts a short-range BLE signal. Gateways — GPS trackers in your vehicles or fixed readers at sites — detect nearby tags and report them to the platform, which logs where and when each item was last seen.
No. Tags have neither, which is why they're low-cost and run for years on a small battery; the gateway provides the location and the mobile connection.
Typically tens of metres to a gateway, depending on environment — enough for a gateway in a van to see everything loaded in it, or a depot gateway to cover a store.
Multi-year, depending on tag model and broadcast rate — and batteries are inexpensive coin cells that are simple to replace.
Yes — that's the core use case. When a tagged item is detected by a vehicle's tracker, the platform records the assignment automatically, with alerts if the item and vehicle are separated.
Yes — BLE sensor tags report temperature (including EN 12830-certified cold-chain sensors), movement and other conditions through the same gateways.
Tell us how many items, vehicles and sites — we’ll spec tags, gateways and alerts, itemised.
