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Track equipment with Bluetooth beacons

ZenGrow & ZenAIBeginner3 minutesUpdated August 25, 2026

Attach a registered BLE beacon to any piece of equipment or vehicle, and your team's WorkZen mobile apps detect it as they work, reporting when and where it was last seen. Manage your beacons under Settings > Trackers; beacons are added to your account by WorkZen support.

The compressor is either in the warehouse, in Dave's truck, or at Tuesday's job site, and asking costs twenty minutes. Beacon trackers answer it from a screen: small Bluetooth (BLE) tags attached to gear and vehicles, spotted automatically by your team's phones as they work.

How it works

There's no per-tracker SIM card or charging ritual. Each beacon broadcasts over Bluetooth, and every WorkZen mobile app in range logs a sighting with GPS coordinates, in passing, while your techs do their normal day. The more your crew moves, the fresher your picture of where everything is.

Managing your trackers

Beacons are registered to your company by WorkZen support (contact support to add them). Once registered, they live under Settings > Trackers, where each beacon shows:

FieldMeaning
Online / OfflineWhether a team phone has detected it recently
SignalExcellent, Good, or Weak at last sighting
Last seenWhen, how far ("{X} m away"), and which team member's phone saw it

Rename each beacon to what it's attached to ("Trailer 2", "Ridgid press") and use the enable/disable toggle to pause tracking on any of them.

Equipment on the Scheduling Map

Active beacons with GPS coordinates appear on the Equipment tab of the Scheduling Map (sidebar > Map), next to your visits and live team, so "where's the trailer" is a glance, not a group text. Equipment tracking is included with ZenGrow and higher plans.

Tip

Name beacons after the asset, not the beacon ("Generator, big" beats "Beacon 07"). Six months from now, nobody remembers which number was on the trailer.

Frequently Asked Questions

Beacons are registered to your company by WorkZen support. Contact support to add trackers to your account; once registered, they appear under Settings > Trackers where you rename and manage them.
Passively. Your team's WorkZen mobile apps detect nearby beacons over Bluetooth as techs go about their day and report each sighting with GPS coordinates. No cellular plan or charging schedule per tracker; the crew's phones are the network.
Online means a team member's phone has detected the beacon recently. Offline means nobody has been in Bluetooth range lately, which usually just means the gear is somewhere your team is not.
Yes, each tracker has an enable/disable toggle on the Trackers page.

This article answers:

  • How do I track my tools and equipment?
  • Does WorkZen have vehicle tracking?
  • What are trackers in WorkZen?
  • Why does my tracker show offline?

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