Site engineer tracking app and software
An engineer tracking app built for construction companies. Know which site each engineer is on, whether they actually reached it, how long they stayed, and the route they took between projects — from one screen, backed by geo-fenced, face-verified attendance.
Assign engineers to sites · auto entry/exit · route history · works offline
You have eight engineers and five active sites. The plan says two engineers on the tower, two on the villa project, one each on the other three. By noon you have no idea if that's what happened — the WhatsApp group has three 'on site sir' messages and five silences, and the client on the villa job is asking why nobody has come.
Site engineer tracking software replaces the check-in call with a record. Bazat Tracker ties every engineer to their assigned sites, verifies each arrival with GPS and a face check, logs entry and exit automatically, and shows you a live board of who is on which site right now.
Why the check-in call doesn't work
Every method most firms use to track engineers depends on the engineer being honest and reachable at the same moment.
The status call
'Reached, sir' can be said from the tea stall. You can't call eight engineers every hour, and you can't verify a word of it.
The self-reported DPR
A daily progress report is filled at day-end from memory. It says which sites were visited, not which sites were actually reached.
The 2-minute visit
An engineer touches the site, sends a photo, and leaves. On paper the day is covered; on site nothing moved.
The 'I was there' dispute
A client says no engineer came. Your engineer swears he did. With no record, it's one word against another.
How Bazat Tracker tracks site engineers
Six things that turn 'he said he was there' into a timestamped, face-verified record.
Site assignment
Assign each engineer to the sites they cover this week. Attendance, geo-fences and reports all follow the assignment.
Geo-fenced check-in
A visit only logs from inside the site boundary — not from the road, the gate, or a spoofed location.
Face verification
Each check-in is matched to the engineer's face, so a colleague can't log the visit for them.
Route between sites
Replay the full day: every site entered, arrival and departure times, and distance travelled between projects.
Time on each site
Duration inside each boundary, per visit — so a quick stop and a full shift never look the same.
Live multi-site board
One screen showing which engineers are on which site right now, and which assigned sites still have nobody.
Picture a contractor running five sites with eight engineers. In the daily report, every site is marked 'covered'. On the multi-site board, two of those sites show only short visits — a quick check-in, then the engineer leaves for the rest of the day. With arrival, departure and time on site recorded for each visit, the manager can raise it with the engineers concerned and rebalance assignments, instead of finding out from a client escalation.
Hypothetical scenario showing how the feature is used — not a customer case study.
Setting up site engineer tracking
- 1
Add your sites
Pin each active project and set a geo-fence radius that matches the plot.
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Assign engineers
Attach each engineer to the sites they're responsible for. Reassign in seconds as priorities move.
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Turn on auto entry/exit
Let crossing a boundary log the visit, so nothing depends on the engineer remembering to tap.
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Set shift hours
Define working hours so tracking runs only during the workday and hours compute for payroll.
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Use the board and reports
Check the live board through the day; export per-engineer, per-site reports at month-end.
Status calls vs DPR vs Bazat Tracker
| Capability | Status calls | Self-reported DPR | Bazat Tracker |
|---|---|---|---|
| Confirms the engineer reached the site | |||
| Confirms identity | |||
| Records time spent on each site | |||
| Shows route between multiple sites | |||
| Live view of who is where now | |||
| Holds up in a client dispute |
What to look for in an engineer tracking app
Most engineer tracking apps can show a dot on a map. For construction companies that's the easy part — the useful questions are which site, for how long, and whether the right person was there. Use these checks to compare any engineer tracker, including ours.
| Capability | Why it matters | In Bazat Tracker |
|---|---|---|
| Site-level check-in | A GPS dot near a site isn't a visit. | Visits log only inside the assigned site's geofence. |
| Identity on every check-in | A phone can be carried by someone else. | Face match with a liveness check on each punch. |
| Time on site per visit | Separates a 2-minute stop from a full inspection. | Entry, exit and duration recorded per site. |
| Route between sites | Shows travel time and gaps between projects. | Daily route replay with stops and distance. |
| Assignment to sites | Tracking needs a plan to compare against. | Assign engineers to one or many sites; reassign in seconds. |
| Spoofing detection | Mock-location apps are the usual workaround. | Mock-location apps and rooted devices are flagged. |
| Offline capture | Basements and outskirts sites lose signal. | Punches stored on the phone and synced later. |
| Per-engineer reports | Month-end reviews and client disputes need records. | Exportable per-engineer, per-site reports. |
Tracking tells you where engineers are and where they've been. To plan who covers which project, and to manage engineer assignments across multiple sites when priorities change, pair it with site assignment. Being checked in at a site doesn't mean an engineer is free for more work, so confirm with them before you reassign.
Tracking service engineers who visit customer locations instead of project sites? See the service engineer tracking app guide.
Site engineer tracking — FAQs
An engineer tracking app runs on engineers' phones and records, during working hours, which sites they reach, how long they stay and the route between them. For construction, the useful kind ties each check-in to a site geofence and a face check, so the record shows real presence rather than a location near the site. Bazat Tracker is an engineer tracker built around construction sites.
Yes. Add each customer location as a geofenced site, and service engineers get the same check-in, time-on-site and route records as site engineers. The service engineer tracking guide on our blog walks through that workflow.
Which site each engineer is assigned to, whether they're inside that site's boundary right now, when they arrived and left, how long they spent on site, the route they took between sites, and the distance covered — all tied to a face-verified punch.
Yes. Assign the engineer to every site they cover. Bazat Tracker logs each site entry and exit separately and shows the full day as a route with stop durations, so you can see all the sites they actually reached.
A visit only logs from inside the site's geo-fence, with a live face check and mock-location detection. Being near the site, or spoofing coordinates, both fail — so the visit record reflects real presence.
No. Crossing a site boundary can auto check-in and check-out, so the record is captured even if the engineer forgets to tap.
Access is role-based. You choose which supervisors and managers can see which sites and engineers, so a project lead sees their own sites and head office sees everything.
No. Tracking runs during assigned shift hours. Outside those hours the app stops collecting location.
See your sites and engineers on one board
Bring your project list to a 15-minute demo. We'll set up the sites, assign a few engineers, and show the live board and the per-engineer report.