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The ZeroBadge system

One badge records the shift,the jobsite and the drive between.

Every worker wears a rugged badge the company issues. It records the shift and the time at each site, indoors and out. The office sees every crew live and gets a payroll-ready week. No phones involved.

Get startedSee a workday

  • Badge on starts the shift

    One press starts the shift. Power off ends it.

  • Clipped on, not carried

    Clips to a belt or pocket. No screen, no app, no phone.

  • Knows which jobsite

    GPS outdoors, Wi-Fi indoors, cellular in between.

  • Reports on its own

    Sends activity about every five minutes over its own connection.

Lena O. · Tue Oct 6

Recorded by badge

Lena O.

Foreman · 6:30 AM to 3:50 PM

9h 20m

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  1. 6:30 AMShop25m
  2. 6:55 AMTo Riverside40m
  3. 7:35 AMRiverside45m
  4. 8:20 AMTo Cascade Supply25m
  5. 8:45 AMCascade Supply25m
  6. 9:10 AMTo Harbor Yard30m
  7. 9:40 AMHarbor Yard6h 10m
On site
7h 20m
In transit
1h 35m
Other
25m

What ZeroBadge covers

The same cellular badge that looks out for a worker also captures the data that keeps your jobs on time and on budget.

Construction crews, field service technicians, utility and oilfield crews, cleaning and security teams: every worker wears one company badge, and the office gets safety alerts, verified hours, labor analytics and ZeroBadge AI from the same record.

  • 01

    Worker safety

    Alerts that reach the office the moment something looks wrong on site.

    • Push-button alert and SOS
    • Automatic fall detection
    • Man down alert when a worker stops moving
    • Restricted area entry alerts
    • Configurable alert rules and thresholds
    Learn more

  • 02

    Workforce management

    Know who is where, who is late and who never showed, without a phone call.

    • Right crew at the right jobsite
    • Late start and no-show alerts
    • Less idle and standby time
    • Site rules backed by restricted zones
    Learn more

  • 03

    Automated timekeeping

    Badge on, shift starts. The week builds itself and goes to payroll.

    • Hands-free clock-in and clock-out
    • Remote sites, linear routes and multi-building campuses
    • No phone apps or punch cards
    • Supervisor approval and payroll export
    Learn more

  • 04

    Workforce productivity

    Labor hours against the plan for every job, while there is still time to act.

    • Actual vs. budgeted hours by job
    • Forecast to completion
    • Configurable reports and exports
    • Reports you can share with owners and GCs
    Learn more

  • 05

    Location analytics

    Where labor actually goes, minute by minute, without anything installed on site.

    • GPS outdoors
    • Indoor location by Wi-Fi, building by building
    • Movement, transit and dwell patterns
    • Live headcount by jobsite
    Learn more

  • 06

    Field logistics

    Plan crews across sites with the record of how they really moved.

    • Track labor progress against plan
    • See how crews move between sites
    • Balance crew assignments across jobs
    Learn more

  • 07

    AI advisory and analytics

    ZeroBadge AI turns badge records into answers and next steps.

    • Weekly worker, site and company scores
    • Benchmarks against your schedule and budgets
    • Plain-English questions, answered from your records
    • Flags what needs attention each week
    Learn more

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.

The badge

Issued by the company. Worn by the worker.

Hand it out like a radio. The worker clips it on and gets to work. The office assigns and swaps badges from the dashboard, and nothing depends on a personal phone.

Specification

  • Its own cellular connection

    Each badge carries its own connection. It never borrows a worker's phone, data plan or the site's Wi-Fi password.

  • Indoor and outdoor location

    Satellite positioning in the open, Wi-Fi recognition inside buildings, cellular continuity between them.

  • Managed by the company

    Badges belong to the company. The office assigns, swaps and retires them from the dashboard.

  • No employee phone

    No app to install, no permissions to approve, no personal device on the record.

  • Moves between jobsites

    The badge moves with the worker. Opening a new site means drawing a geofence, not mounting hardware.

  • Belt or pocket clip

    A spring-steel clip holds it on a belt, pocket or harness strap for the whole shift.

  • Battery per charge

    1 mo+*

  • Standard reporting interval

    5 min

  • Positioning methods: GPS, Wi-Fi, cellular

    3

  • Phones or site hardware needed

    0

* One month or more of battery life. Under qualifying operating conditions. Battery life varies with reporting frequency, signal conditions, usage, and configuration.

Indoor & outdoor location

Know which jobsite a worker is on, even inside the building.

Satellites in the open, Wi-Fi inside, cellular on the road. Every reading is stored with its method and a confidence level, so the office can tell a GPS fix from an estimate.

Riverside Medical Pavilion

GEOFENCE · RIVERSIDE MEDICAL PAVILIONABCDAndrePriyaMarcus
Riverside · Live
© OpenStreetMap contributors
On siteCellular estimateGPS in the yardWi-Fi insideCellular on the roadGeofence

  1. Outdoors

    Highest

    GPS satellite positioning

    Open-sky satellite fixes, checked against the geofence.

  2. Indoors

    High once learned

    Wi-Fi networks + learned site fingerprints

    Nearby Wi-Fi plus each site's learned fingerprint.

  3. In between

    Low, labeled

    Cellular continuity

    Keeps the day connected. Marked low confidence.

  4. On the map

    No site hardware

    Geofences drawn in software

    Type an address. No beacons or gateways to install.

Conditions. Indoor recognition relies on Wi-Fi networks the badge can see, and a new site learns its fingerprint over its first visits. GPS needs open sky. Reporting needs cellular coverage, and short gaps are stored. Built for connected jobsites, not offshore or extremely remote sites.

The worker's day

What the crew does all day: badge on, badge off.

Nothing else is asked of the crew. The badge keeps the record.

  1. 01

    Power on

    Start of shift

    One press. The shift starts at that moment.

  2. 02

    Wear it

    All day

    On a belt or pocket clip. Nothing to open, tap or remember.

  3. 03

    The day records itself

    Automatic

    Shift time and time at each site, including drives between sites.

  4. 04

    Power off

    End of shift

    The shift ends. The timesheet for the day is already built.

  5. 05

    Charge

    On a routine

    Badges charge between shifts on a regular routine the company sets.

Day timeline

Tue Oct 6

Lena O.

Foreman

  1. 6:30 AMBadge on · shift startedPower button
  2. 6:30 AMEntered Shop & OfficeOn site · 25m
  3. 6:55 AMTransit to RiversideIn transit · 40m
  4. 7:35 AMEntered Riverside Medical PavilionOn site · 45m
  5. 8:20 AMTransit to Cascade SupplyIn transit · 25m
  6. 8:45 AMCascade Supply Co.Other · 25m
  7. 9:10 AMTransit to Harbor YardIn transit · 30m
  8. 9:40 AMEntered Harbor Yard Distribution CenterOn site · 6h 10m
  9. 3:50 PMBadge off · timesheet builtShift total 9h 20m
On site
7h 20m
In transit
1h 35m
Other
25m
On siteIn transitOther

Optional worker portal

Workers can check their own record. They never have to.

Any browser, any device. No app to install.

  • See my hours

    Daily and weekly time, by site.

  • Request a correction

    Flag a missed clock-out or a wrong site for review.

  • Record time off

    A day off is never counted as a missed day.

The office

Know where every crew is and which hours need a look before payroll.

Crew counts by jobsite, the hours recorded so far this week and the open review items, side by side.

Oct 5–9

Crews by jobsite

Thu Oct 8

  • Riverside Medical Pavilion● 9 on crew
    375.0 h wk
  • Harbor Yard Distribution Center● 7 on crew
    300.8 h wk
  • Northgate Tower● 8 on crew
    328.9 h wk

Recorded this week

24 workers · 120 shifts

1,045.2hours

Regular
949.5 h
Overtime
95.7 h
Loaded labor cost
$76,085
Average shift
8h 43m

Needs review

3 open

  • Missing clock-outThu Oct 8

    Ivan B. · No clock-out recorded. Shift closed at the last badge report (2:55 PM) pending supervisor review.

  • Live crew view

    Who is clocked in, which site each crew is on, and who is between sites right now.

  • Automatic timesheets

    Every minute of every shift classified as on site, in transit or other, and allocated to the jobsite it was spent at.

  • Exceptions to review

    Missing clock-outs, late starts and time outside approved sites go to review. Nothing is silently edited.

  • Weekly PDF reports

    A payroll-ready timesheet for every worker, generated each week and kept as an unchangeable version.

Walk through the platform

AI & productivity

Ask which jobs ran over on hours. Check the answer against the records.

ZeroBadge AI answers plain-English questions from your own badge-recorded data. Weekly 0–100 scores show which crews, sites and jobs deserve a closer look.

AI analyst

Which jobs used more labor hours this week?

Riverside Medical Pavilion recorded 375.0 hours, up 129.9 hours (+53%) from the week of Sep 28.

This week

375.0 h

Oct 5–9

Baseline

245.1 h

Sep 28–Oct 2

Change

+129.9 h

+53%

Linked records

  • 43 shift records at Riverside
  • 3 crew transfers

Productivity

Jobs needing attention · Oct 5–9

  • Riverside

    Over plan

  • Harbor Yard

    On plan

  • Northgate

    On plan

Weekly score built from

  • Punctuality
  • Share of the shift on site
  • Transit

What ZeroBadge AI will and won't do

  • Answers come only from your company's records
  • Every number links to the underlying records
  • It reads records. It never edits them
  • Admins control who can ask

What managers use the scores for

Missing data lowers confidence, never the score, and time off is excluded. It measures the record against the schedule, not anyone's effort.

  • Spot crews and sites that need attention
  • See which jobs are running over their labor budget
  • Compare sites and track trends week over week
  • Plan crew allocation with the record in hand
More on AI workforce analytics

Payroll

Hours go from the badge to payroll without anyone retyping them.

Badge shifts become a reviewed, approved week. Approved hours are sent to your payroll provider automatically. A timesheet is generated for every Saturday-to-Friday week.

  1. 01

    Capture

    Badge

    Badge shifts recorded automatically, by site.

  2. 02

    Review

    Office

    Exceptions, corrections with an audit trail, worker requests.

  3. 03

    Approve

    Manager

    Manager sign-off on the week before it goes anywhere.

  4. 04

    Send

    Payroll

    Approved hours sent to your payroll provider automatically.

Send hours

Approved
Workers
24
Shifts
120
Regular
949.5 h
Overtime
95.7 h

Payroll provider

  • Your payroll providerApproved hours sent each week

Or export

  • CSV
  • Excel
  • PDF

ZeroBadge integrates with payroll providers and sends them approved hours. It does not run payroll or pay workers.

How payroll integration works

Badge fleet

Assign and swap badges from the office.

No site survey, no installers. Badges register themselves and the office does the rest.

  1. 01

    It registers itself at first power-on

    A new badge appears in the fleet console the first time it is switched on, with its own asset ID.

  2. 02

    Assign it to a worker

    Pick the worker in the dashboard. Time recorded before an assignment is never attributed to them.

  3. 03

    Reassign or replace

    Move a badge to a new hire, swap in a replacement, or mark one lost and see its last reported location.

  4. 04

    Battery and signal for every badge

    Battery, signal and last report for every badge, with low-battery alerts and remote commands such as ping and restart.

Fleet

BadgeWorkerBattery
ZB-000114On shiftMarcus T.2 min ago
82%
ZB-000117Low batteryLena O.1 min ago
23%
ZB-000126New · unassignedAssign…Just now
100%

Low-battery alerts fire at 25% by default, so a badge is charged before it goes dark.

How the data is protected

Security overview

  • Encrypted in transit

    Traffic between badges, the platform and your team's browsers is encrypted.

  • Tenant isolation

    Row-level security on every table walls each company's data off.

  • Multi-factor authentication

    MFA for administrators.

  • Role-based access

    Admin, supervisor and worker each see what their role allows.

  • Audit log

    Record access and edits are logged.

  • 90-day raw location deletion

    Raw location history is deleted after 90 days. Timesheets are kept.

Use cases

Start with the problem on your desk.

The same badge and platform, explained for the job in front of you. Each page covers one problem in detail.

Send to payroll from the record

More use cases

FAQ

What crews and the office ask about the badge.

More answers on the FAQ page.

What does a worker actually do each day?
Power the badge on at the start of paid work, wear it on a belt or pocket clip, and power it off at the end of the shift. ZeroBadge records the shift and the time at each site automatically. There is no app to open and nothing to tap during the day.
How often do badges need charging?
Badges charge on a routine, not every night. Powered off between shifts and reporting about every five minutes, one charge lasts a month or more under qualifying conditions; reporting frequency, signal, usage and configuration all change that. Battery level is visible for every badge, and a low-battery alert fires at 25% by default.
What happens when the badge loses signal?
The shift stays open and the badge stores its reports. When coverage returns, the stored reports upload with their original times and the day fills in automatically. ZeroBadge is designed for typical connected site environments, not offshore or extremely remote sites without cellular coverage.
What if a badge is lost, or a worker leaves?
Mark the badge lost and see its last reported location, or reassign it to another worker from the dashboard. A replacement badge takes over the assignment, and time recorded before any reassignment always stays with the worker who wore the badge.
Who can see workforce information?
Access is role-based. Administrators see the whole company, supervisors see their assigned sites, and workers see only their own hours in the optional portal. Each company's data is isolated at the database level, administrators can use multi-factor authentication, and record access and edits are written to an audit log.
What changes when a crew moves to a new jobsite?
Add the site in the dashboard: type the address and ZeroBadge draws an editable geofence around it. There is nothing to install at the site. Workers keep the same badge, and a move between sites during a shift stays one timesheet, with time allocated to each site.

Get started

See the shift, the dashboard and the payroll week together.

Walk through ZeroBadge with your crews, jobsites and payroll process in mind.

Get startedSee the platform

What we will walk through

  • 01How a badge records a shift across several jobsites
  • 02Timesheets, exceptions and the weekly PDF report
  • 03AI questions and productivity scores for jobs like yours
  • 04How approved hours reach your payroll provider