Construction crew tracking

Construction crew tracking that follows the crew, not the clipboard.

Construction crew tracking shows where each crew is right now and where it spent the week. ZeroBadge builds both from one badge record. During the shift, the live view lists each worker at the jobsite, shop or supplier the latest report places them. After the week closes, the same record becomes hours by site. Tracking runs only while a badge is powered on for a paid shift.

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Crew moves show the same day
On only during paid shifts

ZeroBadgeWorkforceCrew allocation

Transfers · Tue

On site

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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.

Two questions, one record

Where is the crew right now is a different question from where did the hours go.

A superintendent asks the first one at 10 AM. An owner or controller asks the second one on Monday. The badge record answers both, but they are different views and you should not mix them up.

Where is the crew right now is a different question from where did the hours go.
The question	The live view during the shift	The weekly record after it
Is the mechanical crew at Riverside or has it moved?	Each badge sits at the site its latest report places it. The report is about 5 minutes old at most when signal is good.	Hours by worker, day and jobsite, with the move already split out.
Who did we send to Elm Street?	Three badges now report from Elm Street and show Riverside as where they started the day.	Elm Street's hours for that day include the three, and Riverside's do not.
Is the foreman with the crew?	His badge shows at the supply house or in transit while the rest of the crew shows on site.	His supplier stop and drive appear as their own lines, apart from jobsite hours.
Did the crew lose a day somewhere?	A badge that has not reported shows its last known place and the time of that report.	The gap is flagged as an exception, filled in if stored reports upload later.

Is the mechanical crew at Riverside or has it moved?
The live view during the shift
Each badge sits at the site its latest report places it. The report is about 5 minutes old at most when signal is good.
The weekly record after it
Hours by worker, day and jobsite, with the move already split out.
Who did we send to Elm Street?
The live view during the shift
Three badges now report from Elm Street and show Riverside as where they started the day.
The weekly record after it
Elm Street's hours for that day include the three, and Riverside's do not.
Is the foreman with the crew?
The live view during the shift
His badge shows at the supply house or in transit while the rest of the crew shows on site.
The weekly record after it
His supplier stop and drive appear as their own lines, apart from jobsite hours.
Did the crew lose a day somewhere?
The live view during the shift
A badge that has not reported shows its last known place and the time of that report.
The weekly record after it
The gap is flagged as an exception, filled in if stored reports upload later.

The live view is the latest report, not a video of the site. The badge reports about every 5 minutes. If signal drops, reports are stored and uploaded on reconnect with their original timestamps.

Crews that move

Crew moves show the day they happen, not on Friday's sheet.

The record follows each worker, so a move does not need a phone call or a change to a schedule first. When part of one crew goes to the job that is behind, their badges start reporting from the other site and the counts for both jobs change the same day.

A crew in ZeroBadge is the group of workers assigned to a site or reporting from it. If you name crews on your own board, the badge record still shows which of those people were where. The week's hours by site are covered in multi-jobsite time tracking.

ZeroBadgeWorkforceCrews by jobsite

Jobsite	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Hours
Riverside	6	10	9	9	9	375.0
Harbor Yard	10	7	7	7	7	300.8
Northgate	8	8	8	8	8	328.9

Counts are distinct workers with badge-recorded time at the site that day.

Three scenarios on one Tuesday

What the office sees when the plan changes at 10 AM.

The times and names are illustrative. The mechanics are not: each line uses only what a badge reports.

What the office sees when the plan changes at 10 AM.
When and who	What happened on the ground	What the live view and record show
10:40 AM. Superintendent, commercial TI	The drywall hangers are done early at Riverside. He sends three of them to Elm Street to start the punch list.	By the next report, three badges list Elm Street. Riverside's live count drops by three, Elm Street's rises by three, and the drive is transit, not site time.
1:15 PM. Foreman and a lead journeyman, mechanical	The foreman leaves for a supply house run and the lead journeyman runs the crew until he is back at 2:20. Nobody tells the office.	The foreman's badge shows the supply house, then transit, then the site again. The crew's badges never left the site. The record is the handoff: seven on site, foreman away for 65 minutes.
3:30 PM. Project manager	Wants to know before tomorrow whether Riverside got the labor it was promised.	The weekly record so far shows each worker's site hours for Monday and Tuesday. Last week's same days sit beside them.

10:40 AM. Superintendent, commercial TI
What happened on the ground
The drywall hangers are done early at Riverside. He sends three of them to Elm Street to start the punch list.
What the live view and record show
By the next report, three badges list Elm Street. Riverside's live count drops by three, Elm Street's rises by three, and the drive is transit, not site time.
1:15 PM. Foreman and a lead journeyman, mechanical
What happened on the ground
The foreman leaves for a supply house run and the lead journeyman runs the crew until he is back at 2:20. Nobody tells the office.
What the live view and record show
The foreman's badge shows the supply house, then transit, then the site again. The crew's badges never left the site. The record is the handoff: seven on site, foreman away for 65 minutes.
3:30 PM. Project manager
What happened on the ground
Wants to know before tomorrow whether Riverside got the labor it was promised.
What the live view and record show
The weekly record so far shows each worker's site hours for Monday and Tuesday. Last week's same days sit beside them.

A foreman handoff here is a pattern on the record, not a feature that names a lead. The record shows who was at the site and when. Who was in charge is still your call.

Four ways to know where a crew is

Crew tracking is only as good as the person or device that reports it.

How each method answers where the crew is and where the hours went
Compare	ZeroBadgeCompany badge on each worker	Daily log or whiteboardForeman writes it down	Phone location appWorker's phone reports	Radio, calls and textsAsk the foreman
Where is each crew now	Latest report per badge, by jobsite.	Where it was at 7 AM, if the log is filled in.	Where each phone is, if it is on, charged and logged in.	Whatever the foreman says, when he answers.
A mid-day crew move	Shows on the next report from the new site.	Shows up tomorrow, if someone remembers.	Shows if the app is running on each phone.	Known to the two people on the call.
Workers without a smartphone	Covered. The badge has its own cellular connection.	Covered, by the foreman's memory.	Not covered. It needs a personal phone and data plan.	Covered, by whoever has a radio.
Tracking outside the shift	None. Badges are powered off between shifts.	None.	Depends on whether the worker closes the app.	None.
The week's hours by site	Built from the same record, split by jobsite.	Re-keyed from the log at week's end.	Available if the app tracks hours by job.	Not recorded.

Compare ZeroBadge with

How each method answers where the crew is and where the hours went: ZeroBadge compared with Log
ZeroBadge	Log
Where is each crew now
Latest report per badge, by jobsite.	Where it was at 7 AM, if the log is filled in.
A mid-day crew move
Shows on the next report from the new site.	Shows up tomorrow, if someone remembers.
Workers without a smartphone
Covered. The badge has its own cellular connection.	Covered, by the foreman's memory.
Tracking outside the shift
None. Badges are powered off between shifts.	None.
The week's hours by site
Built from the same record, split by jobsite.	Re-keyed from the log at week's end.

The tradeoff

A phone app is a reasonable answer for an owner-operator crew that all carry capable phones and keep the app open. A foreman's log is a reasonable answer for one crew on one site. The gap appears when crews move between sites during the day and not everyone carries a phone.

What the live view shows

What each reading means and how much to trust it.

Which jobsite, not which room
The live view answers which drawn location a badge is in. It does not say which floor or room, and it does not promise indoor precision.
GPS outdoors, Wi-Fi indoors
A badge outdoors uses GPS. Indoors it uses Wi-Fi positioning, which learns each site's Wi-Fi over the first visits, so a new site is a little less sure than one with a few weeks behind it.
Cellular in between
When neither GPS nor Wi-Fi gives a reading, cellular continuity keeps the badge where it last was and labels it low confidence.
How fresh it is
A badge reports about every 5 minutes, so the live view is a few minutes behind the real crew. A badge that has gone quiet shows its last report and the time.
On only while a badge is on
Power-on starts the shift and power-off ends it. The badge is company-owned, company-managed and off between shifts, so there is nothing to see after hours.
Battery
One month or more on a charge. Under qualifying operating conditions. Battery life varies with reporting frequency, signal conditions, usage, and configuration. A low-battery alert is raised at 25% by default, so a badge can be charged before it dies mid-shift.

Limits

A badge tells you where a person's badge is. It does not tell you what the crew is doing.

A badge left in a truck still counts as the crew being there, and a crew standing at the right site can still be idle. Use the view to ask better questions of a foreman, not to replace the foreman. It is built first for commercial construction crews and also fits other multi-site field crews. It is not designed for work far outside cellular coverage.

ZeroBadge AI

Ask ZeroBadge AI where the crew is

The live view shows the crew on a map. ZeroBadge AI answers the follow-up questions in plain English: who is where, who moved and how many people each job had. It reads only your company's records and links each answer to them.

You ask
Who is on site at Elm Street right now?
Eleven badges are on shift at the Elm Street warehouse as of their latest reports. Two more are in transit toward it and one is at the supply house.
You ask
Which workers moved between jobs yesterday?
Five. Three went from the shop to Harbor Road, one from Harbor Road to Elm Street and one made a supply house stop between jobs. Each move shows its drive time as transit.
You ask
How many people were at each jobsite on Tuesday?
Elm Street 14, Harbor Road 9 and Pine Ridge 6. The headcount counts anyone with time on site that day, and each number opens the list of names.

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 works

Questions

Questions about construction crew tracking.

How do you track crews across multiple construction sites?

Put a badge on each worker and draw each site, the shop and your usual supply houses as locations. The live view shows which location each badge is at, and the weekly record splits each worker's hours by location. Nothing is installed on site.

Can I see where my crew is in real time?

Close to it. Each badge reports about every 5 minutes, so the live view shows each worker's latest reported location. If a badge has gone quiet, the view shows its last report and when it arrived, instead of guessing.

Does crew tracking follow workers after the shift?

No. The badge is company-owned and powered off between shifts. Tracking runs only during paid shifts, and raw location history is deleted after 90 days while timesheets are kept.

What happens when a crew moves between sites in the middle of the day?

Nothing needs to be entered. Their badges report from the new site, the live counts for both jobs change, and the hours split by site in the weekly record. The drive between is recorded as transit. See tracking drive time between job sites.

Does it work for workers who do not have smartphones?

Yes. The badge has its own cellular connection, so no personal phone, app or login is involved. See time tracking without phones.

Is crew tracking the same as jobsite attendance?

They share a record but answer different questions. Crew tracking asks where each crew is and how it moves. Attendance asks whether the people who should be on site are there. See jobsite attendance tracking.

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Last updated October 29, 2026

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01The live view by jobsite and how fresh each reading is
02A mid-day crew move, then the hours it produced
03How badges stay off between shifts