DEWALT has launched the Tool Connect™ Partner Network to address jobsite theft, which costs the U.S. construction industry up to $1 billion in stolen equipment and $100 million in lost tools annually, with recovery rates often falling below 25%.
Expanding upon DEWALT’s existing mobile app and cellular gateway, the ecosystem leverages partner hardware as detection nodes to track nearby tagged tools wherever partner equipment is operating. Initial network partners include Geotab to track tools moving across vehicle fleets, Trackunit to detect tools around heavy jobsite machinery and BoxLock to log tool locations whenever smart-secured storage units are accessed.
“Our customers have told us that the network is the largest challenge in deploying tool tracking at scale,” said Eric Loeliger, Director of Product Management, DEWALT. “The Tool Connect™ Partner Network solves this by turning the infrastructure customers already have — their fleet vehicles, their heavy equipment, their smart locks — into a tracking network for their DEWALT tools. They get a single view of where their tools are, with significantly less effort. This is the broadest network of its kind in the industry.”
