NFC check-insFire safety software
NFC fire safety inspection check-ins: proof they were there.
Fix an NFC tag at the dry riser, the fire panel or the communal door. When the inspector arrives, they hold their phone to it, and WiseBlock records who stood at which point of which building, and when — and tells the property manager they have arrived.
Recorded the moment the tag was tapped
- Who
- Rafael Radcliffe, fire inspector
- Where
- Crown Rise · DRY RISER INLET, ground floor
- When
- 15/10/2026 at 09:02
- Tapped with
- WiseBlock app
The rest of the round
- FIRE PANEL · ground floorVisited today
- AOV CONTROL · 6th floorNot yet
- ROOF ACCESS · 7th floorNot yet
An illustrative check-in: the block and the inspector are fictional.
Sheet 01A tap
What happens when the phone meets the tag.
Nothing to unlock, nothing to type. The tag carries a link, and the phone does the rest.
Tap
The inspector holds a phone to the tag — in the WiseBlock mobile app, or with the phone's own NFC reader, which opens the check-in in the browser.
Who is it?
A phone WiseBlock doesn't recognise is asked to sign in first, then brought straight back to the check-in rather than losing it.
Recorded
The person, the checkpoint, the building, the time and whether it came from the app or the browser are saved as one check-in.
Told
The building's property manager and the organisation's admins get a notification: who arrived, where, and at what time.
Sheet 02Checkpoints
One tag for every point a fire check visits.
Each tag is a checkpoint, set up against its building with a label, a floor and a description of where to find it.
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Dry riser inlet
Where the riser test starts, and where an inspector proves they reached it.
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Fire alarm panel
The weekly alarm test begins here, so the check-in time is the test's start.
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Communal doors and stair cores
Fire doors on each landing, the stair lobby, the bin store.
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AOV controls and roof access
Smoke ventilation controls and the plant on the top floor — the points most easily skipped.
Sheet 03The round
A fire check is a round, not a single tap.
Most fire checks visit several points in one building. After each tap, WiseBlock shows the inspector the building's other checkpoints, in floor order, and which of them they have already visited today. Nobody works the round out from memory, and the office gets an honest picture of what was actually walked.
Tapping the same tag twice while standing there is one arrival, not two: a repeat within 15 minutes is still recorded, but the property manager isn't notified again.
The tap sits alongside the check itself. The inspector still completes the scheduled fire check in the app with its outcome; the check-in is the evidence that they were at the point when they did.
Sheet 04Whose tap counts
A check-in only counts from your own people.
Proof of presence is worth recording only if it can't be produced from a desk.
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A link nobody can guess
Each tag carries a long random token rather than its short reference, so a check-in can't be made by typing a likely address.
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Signed in, and yours
The person tapping must be signed in and an active member of the organisation that owns the tag. Anyone else is turned away.
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Same rules, app or browser
A tap from the app and a tap from a phone's browser go through the same steps and notify the same people.
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Workflows can act on it
"Someone checks in at a building" is a workflow trigger: alert the office to an out-of-hours arrival, or put work on the task board.
Questions
NFC check-ins, answered.
Does the inspector need the WiseBlock app?
No. A phone's built-in NFC reader opens the check-in in the browser. The app does the same thing and is where the inspector completes the fire check itself.
What does a check-in record?
Who tapped, which checkpoint, which building, the date and time, and whether it came from the app or the browser.
Who is told when an inspector arrives?
The building's property manager and the organisation's administrators get an in-app notification. A repeat tap within 15 minutes doesn't notify them again.
Can someone from another company use our tags?
No. Only signed-in, active members of the organisation that owns the tag can check in with it.
Where should tags go?
At the points a fire check has to reach: the dry riser inlet, the fire panel, communal fire doors, AOV controls and roof access. Each is labelled with its floor and location in WiseBlock.
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