Time tracking for utility and energy crews
Time tracking for line crews, substations and storm work.
Utility time tracking has to follow line crews, substation techs and renewables crews across a whole service territory. ZeroBadge gives each worker a company-managed badge. Power on and the shift starts. Each report is placed at the substation, plant, solar or wind site, or work area you've drawn. Power off and it ends. Storm weeks get the same record as a normal week.
- No phone needed in the bucket
- Hours by site, overtime where it happened
- One month or more of battery life*
*Under qualifying operating conditions. Battery life varies with reporting frequency, signal conditions, usage, and configuration.
Oct 3–9
Transfer to
- Your payroll provider
- CSV
- Excel
Timesheets
24
Sat Oct 3 – Fri Oct 9
Regular
949.5 h
Overtime
95.7 h
Lena O. · Foreman
Ready- Harbor Yard36.31.8
- Riverside0.80.0
- Shop, transit & supplier2.94.9
Ben C. · Journeyman pipefitter
Ready- Riverside32.04.3
- Harbor Yard8.00.0
Kenji H. · Apprentice
Review first- Riverside40.04.0
- Shop, transit & supplier0.03.8
Ivan B. · Sheet metal journeyman
Review first- Harbor Yard39.50.4
21 of 24 timesheets ready · 3 to review first
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What ZeroBadge does for you
How ZeroBadge helps Utilities & Energy
One company badge per worker covers safety alerts, timekeeping, labor analytics and ZeroBadge AI. Here is what each part does in your line of work.
01
Worker safety
A lineworker alone at a remote substation can press SOS, and the office sees the alert on the dashboard along with the site it came from.
Learn more02
Workforce management
See which crews are at which substations, yards and generation sites, and spot late starts or no-shows before restoration work gets short-handed.
Learn more03
Automated timekeeping
Storm shifts that run past midnight are recorded as they happen, from badge on to badge off, so restoration overtime is not rebuilt from memory.
Learn more04
Workforce productivity
Compare actual crew hours against the plan for each site or project and see overtime where it sat, week over week, while there is still time to adjust.
Learn more05
Location analytics
GPS covers open ground and line routes, Wi-Fi positioning helps inside buildings, and every reading stores its method, with nothing installed at remote sites.
Learn more06
Field logistics
Balance storm crews across sites and circuits by seeing where each crew worked yesterday and which locations still have the fewest hours recorded.
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AI advisory and analytics
Ask which mutual-aid crews logged the most hours at each yard during the storm and get a plain-English answer from your records, linked to the hours behind it.
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Safety alerts support your safety program. They do not replace supervision or training, ZeroBadge does not monitor alerts or contact 911, and in an emergency workers should call 911.
Where utility labor gets blurred
Storm restoration turns a clean timesheet into a week of guesses.
Utilities and their contractors spread crews over miles of line and dozens of sites. When a storm hits, the paperwork falls days behind the work.
Storm hours written up afterward
Crews work long shifts for days. Hours get reconstructed once the lights are back on, and the overtime lands on the wrong days.
Mutual-aid crews on someone else's system
Crews arrive from other companies to help. Their hours come in on their own paper, in their own format.
Sites spread across a territory
One tech covers several substations in a day. A single site on the timecard hides the driving and the other stops.
Remote solar and wind sites
Large sites far from town have patchy coverage. Phone apps stall, and the record has holes nobody can explain.
Where the hours went
Hours by site, week over week, with overtime where it sat.
The example company here is a construction contractor. The record works the same way at a substation or a wind site. Hours roll up by every location you have drawn, with the change from last week.
In a storm week the overtime shows on the sites and days it happened, not spread across the crew average. Overtime follows the daily and weekly thresholds you set.
Labor by jobsite
Recorded
1,045.2 h
Overtime
95.7 h
Workers
24
Riverside Medical Pavilion
375.0 h
▲ +129.9 h vs prior week · OT 38.3 h◆ Plan 340.0 hHarbor Yard Distribution Center
300.8 h
▼ −97.0 h vs prior week · OT 3.8 hPlan 310.0 hNorthgate Tower
328.9 h
▼ −1.4 h vs prior week · OT 17.6 hPlan 330.0 h
What changed
Riverside Medical Pavilion recorded 375.0 hours, up 129.9 hours (+53%) from the week of Sep 28.
3 workers (Ben C., Mateo G., Rosa D.) recorded time at Riverside from Tue Oct 6 after working at Harbor Yard. Their time accounts for 108.8 of the added hours.
Crews on the move
See which crews moved to which sites, on the day they moved.
Restoration pulls crews off planned work and sends them where the damage is. The record shows how many people worked at each site each day, with the changes flagged.
Each worker still has one shift, split by site, with the drives on their own lines. When the week is approved, those hours are sent to your payroll provider automatically. ZeroBadge does not run payroll.
Crew allocation
On site
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
- Riverside610999
- Harbor Yard107777
- Northgate88888
Site transfers detected
- Ben C.Harbor Yard → Riverside · Tue
- Mateo G.Harbor Yard → Riverside · Tue
- Rosa D.Harbor Yard → Riverside · Tue
Lena O. · Tue Oct 6
4 locations in one shift, 1h 35m in transit, still one record.
In the field
What your operations team will ask.
Work orders and circuits
Hours are split by location. If a crew works one area per work order or circuit, draw that area and name it that way.
Mutual-aid crews
Keep spare badges on hand. Assign one to each visiting worker for the event and reassign it when they leave.
Long storm shifts
Missing clock-outs, late starts, early finishes and time outside approved sites land on an exceptions list. The office clears them before the storm week is approved.
Coverage gaps
Out of cellular coverage the badge stores its reports. It uploads them with their original times when it reconnects.
Rolling it out
Start with one yard and the crews that work out of it.
- 01
Draw your sites
Add substations, plants, solar and wind sites and service yards by address or on the map. Adjust each boundary as needed.Office · first day
- 02
Issue badges
Each lineworker, tech and contractor gets a badge tied to their name. Keep spares for storm season.Office · first week
- 03
Let the day record itself
Crews power on at the start of the shift and off at the end. Moves between sites land on one shift.Crews · daily
- 04
Review, approve, send
Clear the flagged items and approve the period. Approved hours are sent to your payroll provider automatically.Payroll · each period
Go deeper
Where utility and energy companies usually look next.
- SolutionMulti-jobsite time trackingSite transfers, transit and supply runs inside one shift record.
- SolutionPayroll integrationApproved hours sent to your payroll provider automatically. Nobody re-keys a timecard.
- SolutionTime tracking without phonesA company-managed badge instead of an app on a worker's personal phone.
- Industry guideOil & GasWellsites, pads and pipeline right-of-way, with crews moving between remote locations.
- Industry guideField ServicesService techs on routes: customer stops, drive time and who is where right now.
- Platform tourThe platformA walkthrough of what the office sees: crews, jobsites, timesheets, analytics and payroll.
ZeroBadge AI
Ask ZeroBadge AI about your crews and sites
Type the question you would ask your office manager. The answer comes from your records, and each number links to them.
You ask
Which sites logged the most hours during last week's storm restoration?
Substation 12 logged 318 hours, Riverbend yard 276 and the Ridgeline wind site 191. Overtime is shown where it sat, and each total links to its shifts.
You ask
Which mutual-aid crews were on site Wednesday?
Two visiting crews of six and eight logged 14 and 16 hours at Riverbend yard, listed by crew and arrival time.
You ask
How many shifts ran past 14 hours?
Seven shifts passed 14 hours, all at storm sites, the longest at 19h 20m. They appear in the exceptions list for review.
Answers come only from your company's own records. Every number links to the records behind it. Read-only; admins control access.
How ZeroBadge AI worksQuestions
Questions utility and energy companies ask.
How does ZeroBadge handle storm restoration overtime?
Can mutual-aid crews use ZeroBadge for a storm?
Does it work at solar and wind farms far from town?
Can hours be tracked by work order or circuit?
Do lineworkers need a phone?
Get started
See your sites, your crews and a storm week in one record.
We'll walk through ZeroBadge with your territory, your crews and your payroll process in mind.
What we will walk through
- 01How a tech's day across several sites is recorded
- 02Hours by site with overtime where it happened
- 03Weekly timesheets, review and the payroll integration