SmartBarrel is a biometric time tracking solution built for data center construction. Easily track hours and cost codes across thousands of workers on mission critical projects.
SmartBarrel supports crews in all 50 states, including the major data center markets: Northern Virginia, Columbus, Phoenix, Atlanta, and Dallas.
Time Tracking in Data Centers
Hyperscale and colocation data center sites run hundreds of craft workers, round-the-clock shifts, and complex per diem and incentive tracking, and the pressure only builds as the job moves toward commissioning. More on why time tracking gets so hard at scale.
Here’s what changes when your crew switches to verified time.
Data center construction runs on large craft crews, day and night shifts, and constant shift turnover as the job moves from shell to commissioning. SmartBarrel can handle it all.
Workers type their phone number, take a picture and are clocked in. Construction teams get moving on day one without a training session.
Assign cost codes and classifications in the field tied to verified time, not days later in the office.
Workers check in at the source. Foremen assign cost codes and approve time daily. The result? Payroll gets 100% accurate data, every time, and job costing stays aligned with project timelines.
SmartBarrel integrates with virtually any construction software on the market, including:
DATA CENTER CASE STUDY
The Newtron Group is one of the largest privately owned industrial electrical contractors in the country, and a union shop running crews across multiple data center projects at once. With SmartBarrel, they eliminated buddy punching and time theft with 100% accurate hours from the field.
Faster payroll processing
Less manual data entry
Data center projects, 3-week rollout
“Using SmartBarrel for our projects has been a fantastic experience. The system is super straightforward, even for large crews spread across multiple sites. It’s truly a construction manager’s best friend.”
Praneeth Gali, IT Infrastructure Engineer, Newtron Group
Capture accurate hours with the TimeClock 4.0 or SmartBarrel mobile app. Verified clock-ins flow into your dashboard that includes cost code tracking, productivity analytics, expense management and more.
Portable time clock with biometric facial verification and GPS tracking. Lives on your jobsite. No charging required, no setup, no excuses.
Worker-facing construction mobile app for iOS and Android. Simple clock-in with phone number and picture.
Full visibility and control over every jobsite in real-time. Manage labor hours, absenteeism, cost codes, productivity, daily logs and more.
Track by cost codes, completed work and labor costs.
Track per diem, travel pay, mileage, truck allowance and reimbursements.
Add boundaries around every jobsite so workers only clock in when there.
Automate your daily logs. Eliminate manual paperwork forever.
Scan for PPE, manage incident reports, check safety training progress and more.
Message your entire field crew instantly with important announcements.
Set clock-in, clock-out, time rounding, and break rules. Done.
Automatically comply with union shift and break rules. No more spreadsheets.
Track employees, temp workers, and hourly subcontractors together.
Automatically calculate overtime and doubletime. No manual math.
Track labor cost codes in real-time across jobsites and projects.
Full control over shift approvals before processing payroll.
“With SmartBarrel, we've reached a 90% approval rate for time tracking, a massive improvement from our previous methods. This level of accuracy and speed in approvals has greatly reduced our administrative burden and resulted in significant savings”
PROJECT EXECUTIVE
LPL SOLAR
“Payroll processing only takes me two hours per week at most. Before SmartBarrel, I used to spend an extra 12 hours since manual time entry always had discrepancies. We've cut payroll errors by 20% to 30% because I was manually entering time before, and now I just review one file.”
CAO
SYBER CONCRETE FORMING LTD.
“SmartBarrel’s implementation and rollout went incredibly smoothly. One of the biggest wins was how easy it was to train our field employees, even those who aren’t very comfortable with technology. The system is easy-to-use and has helped improve accuracy and accountability.”
STRATEGIC BUSINESS ANALYST
COMPLETE MECHANICAL SERVICES LLC.
“It takes foremen 5 to 10 minutes to approve time at the end of the day or the next morning. As a result, payroll is no longer a fire drill. We’re not having to do double runs of payroll on Friday anymore. That in itself is amazing.”
DIRECTOR, TALENT & REGIONAL HR
JENCO, INC.
“We had over 1000 workers but no standardized system for time capture. With SmartBarrel, we now have complete visibility, even for projects hundreds of miles away. We can see who is onsite, what cost codes were performed, all in real time. We can then convey this information to clients and it settles disputes before they arise.”
DIRECTOR OF PROJECT CONTROLS
APACHE INDUSTRIAL SERVICES
“SmartBarrel is super straightforward, even for large crews spread across multiple sites. It streamlines the entire payroll process, significantly reduced administrative headaches, and syncs with our existing project management software. It's truly a construction manager's best friend!”
IT INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEER
NEWTRON LLC
“Paper timesheets were a huge time suck and we had over 700 workers submitting them every week. To fix this, we needed a hardware solution for jobsites. SmartBarrel transformed timekeeping from a foreman’s responsibility to the employee’s. Now, we get hours that are always accurate – upfront. It gives us reliable data to make better decisions.”
CEO
PRISM ELECTRIC
SmartBarrel is built for high-volume jobsites. Your workers punch in on rugged biometric time clocks or the mobile app in seconds, and every punch is verified with facial verification. Supervisors see real-time headcount by crew, foreman, area, and shift in one dashboard, so you always know where your workforce is across every pad, building, and phase of the project.
Yes. SmartBarrel complements existing site security. Geofence rules ensure workers can only clock in on site, and biometric verification confirms the person punching is who they say they are. The result is a verified, defensible record of your crew’s hours: the documentation you need for T&M billing, back-charges, labor disputes, and audits.
Same day. The portable time clocks are solar or battery powered with built-in LTE, magnetic-mount, and weatherproof, so no site power, network drops, or IT involvement required. They move with the work across large construction sites, from pads to gates to laydown areas, as the project evolves. SmartBarrel supports crews in all 50 states, including the major data center markets: Northern Virginia, Columbus, Phoenix, Atlanta, and Dallas.
Yes. Crews or foremen assign cost codes at punch-in or during the shift, and verified craft labor hours roll up by building, level, scope, or phase. Production quantities can be logged against the same codes, giving you real-time earned-vs-burned visibility across the campus.
SmartBarrel integrates with Procore, CMiC, Viewpoint, Plexxis, Foundation, Sage, ComputerEase, QuickBooks and more, plus an API for custom stacks. Verified time and cost codes flow to the systems your PMs and payroll teams already use.
Per diem, mileage, and truck allowance are tracked against verified punches, so travel and subsistence pay is tied to the days your crew was actually on site. Rules are built in and applied automatically instead of being reconciled by hand, and the amounts flow to payroll alongside the hours.
SmartBarrel captures the field data certified payroll depends on: verified hours by worker, classification, and cost code, with every edit logged and auditable. Foremen assign classifications in the field for union and prevailing wage work, so the data reaches your payroll system already attributed instead of being reconstructed after the fact.
SmartBarrel is priced per worker per month, plus a monthly rate for each TimeClock device on your jobsites, with a 100-worker minimum billed annually. Because data center projects vary widely in crew size and how many clocks you need across pads and gates, request a demo for a quote scoped to your project.
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