Basecamp & temporary site operations

Manage basecamps, temporary facilities, teams, and site services from one platform.

MX can manage the operational life of a temporary site — not just track tasks. Intake, NFC wristbands, beds, meals, laundry, issue QR codes, asset records, dashboards, and SITREPs. Run the whole camp on MX, or turn on only the parts a given camp needs.

mx.camp / Camp 3 · day 18 of operation
on-site · 412
Occupants
412
/ 480 beds
Meals · today
1,116
B 410 · L 320 · D 386
Laundry
184
bags · today
Open issues
6
3 in progress
RECENT SCANSlast 5 min
14:08GATE-01WRIST-CAMP3-0418 · J. Singhcheck-in
14:07KITCHENWRIST-CAMP3-0124 · M. Parklunch
14:06LAUN-01BAG-0938 · Crew Blaundry-out
14:05GATE-02BADGE-V-V12 · Vendor V-12check-out
14:03OFFICE-ABADGE-EXEC-04 · K. Morganaccess
§ 01 · The operational life of a site

Manage the whole site — not just the tasks.

From stand-up to demobilization: the people, the services, the assets, and the site itself.

01

Stand-up

Site configuration, intake portal, NFC tag issue, asset and trailer registration.

02

Onboard

Personnel intake — ID scan, company, role, certification, NFC wristband or badge issued.

03

Operate

Check-in / check-out, beds, meals, laundry, issue reporting, asset maintenance, SITREPs.

04

Demob

Off-boarding, asset return, site close-out, audit retention.

§ 02 · Mobilization

From a yard full of assets to a working camp.

Yard management is usually the part a basecamp provider already has in hand — inventory, condition, readiness, all on home ground. What gets messy is the transition: turning a headcount into a camp, and getting power, HVAC, food, habitation trailers and sanitation mobilized, transported and set up inside the time allowed.

01

Size

Start from a headcount. MX can size the camp's space and asset needs from standard rules of thumb, refined with your own experience over time — or you specify the requirements directly.

02

Match

Requirements are mapped against your in-house asset inventory, and the shortfalls are identified: what has to come from third-party suppliers and contractors.

03

Move

Assets are tracked from the yard — yours or a supplier's — to the site, with ETAs that keep updating. A delivery that puts the timeline at risk shows up early, not on the day.

04

Hand over

On site, progress is updated from mobile as each item is installed, secured, and ready for operation, through to handover to the relevant authorities.

mobilization / camp-3 · sized for 4801 delivery at risk
Habitation trailersEn route · ETA 14:20
need 40 · in-house 32 · shortfall 8 → supplier
GeneratorsOperational
need 6 · in-house 6 · no shortfall
HVAC unitsAt risk · ETA +3h
need 12 · in-house 9 · shortfall 3 → supplier
Shower & toilet unitsAssigned
need 10 · in-house 4 · shortfall 6 → supplier
Potable water tanksInstalling
need 4 · in-house 4 · no shortfall
§ 03 · Intake & identification

Badged and operational in minutes.

Drivers, technicians, contractors, vendors, and visitors all hit MX the same way — a controlled intake that captures who they are, what they can do, where they go, and how they will be tracked on-site. From the moment they hold a badge — an NFC wristband, a printed card, or one on their phone — they are operational, and it scans for site access, meals, laundry, and forms.

intake / new arrivalroster upload · 112 rows · 3 duplicates caught
✓
ID scan
Driver's license or government ID via MX+ camera. Fields auto-populate.
✓
Company & role
Company, email, phone, role. Pre-filled where the vendor is known.
✓
Credentials
Certifications and training records linked. Site-specific safety briefing.
4
NFC issued
Wristband or badge bound to the person, role, and zones permitted. Operational from this moment — nothing to install or log into.
5
Site assignment
Bed, office, vehicle, parking — assigned and printed.

NFC wristbands & badges

A wristband with an NFC tag that is simply scanned. The wristband is the identity — no app, password, or login. Each one is scoped to what the person needs: full residency, or just meals or laundry.

Badges before arrival

Badges can be pre-assigned and sent straight to a person's phone before they arrive — or pre-printed, if the site prefers a card. Hours of gate-side admin are done before day one.

Companies & contractors

Vendor records carry their own roles, certifications, and access scope.

Crew rosters in bulk

When a hundred people arrive on day one, the crew roster is uploaded from a spreadsheet and duplicates against people already on record are caught automatically. Each person then picks up the same flow at the badge.

Site movement audit

Every gate, kitchen, laundry, and zone scan logged. Where everyone is, all the time.

§ 04 · Site services

Beds. Meals. Laundry. Issues. Access.

The operational details a basecamp lives or dies by — managed in MX, not on whiteboards and clipboards. Turn on what a given camp needs and leave the rest off.

Bed assignment

Beds, bunks, RV pads. Residents are placed by standard rules — gender, shift, company — not assigned one by one by hand. Traceable to NFC wristbands, audit retained.

Office assignment

Workspaces, demountable offices, vehicle parking — assigned and recorded.

Meal tracking

Unmanned stations recognize a badge or driver's license — no attendant needed. Counts roll up by meal, day, vendor, and role.

Laundry tracking

In, processed, out. Labels printed in real time, bins tracked at collection, a proper disputes path. Per bag, per person, per vendor.

Access control

Physical and digital. NFC at gates and zones, each badge scoped to the areas its holder is permitted.

Site assets

Trailers, generators, vehicles, equipment — registered, maintained, located. Stock held inside a container or store is held against it, and moves with it when the container is relocated.

Water, fuel & waste

Potable water, fuel for generators and vehicles, and waste disposal — tracked and logged like any other site asset, not left to a visual check and a radio call.

Issue reporting

QR codes posted around site. Tap, photo, narrative — goes straight to maintenance.

Maintenance work

Routine and reactive. Linked to assets, photos, audit. Crews on MX+.

§ 05 · Meal tracking in the field

Thousands of meals a day, on patchy signal.

A basecamp feeding thousands of people a day, in a place where the phone signal cannot be relied on. This is how the meal count stays complete, and stays auditable.

01

Patchy coverage

The camp sits where signal comes and goes. The meal line cannot wait for it.

02

Scans hold on the phone

Each badge scan is recorded on the phone at the station, with the person, the time and the place, signal or not.

03

Reconciled on return

When signal comes back, the held scans reconcile themselves. Nobody re-keys a tally or chases a missing sheet.

04

The manager's own view

The site manager built the dashboard themselves: meal counts by day and by location, without raising a request.

Every meal is a record, not a check mark on a sheet: who ate, when, and at which station — kept with the rest of the site's audit trail.
§ 06 · Multi-employer sites

Every party manages its own.

A basecamp is rarely made up of a single contractor, with a mix of prime and subcontractors responsible for different functional areas within the camp. Each party on site — provider or client, prime or subcontractor — can be managed directly via MX's contractor portal.

Beds

The camp manager hands a company a block in one action, and MX proposes beds that keep its people grouped. The company's manager then assigns, moves and unassigns their own people. Unused beds go back to the pool.

People

A company's people are held under the company. Its manager sees and manages their own crew — not the rest of the site.

Training

Certifications and training records against each person. A course runs as an MX form, and a pass updates the competency record on submission.

Fleet

The vehicles, trailers and plant a company brought to site, held under that company.

↳ Same permission model as the rest of MX. A company sees its own allocation and its own people, and nothing of another's.

§ 07 · SITREPs & dashboards

Command sees the whole site.

MX rolls up the activity of every gate, kitchen, laundry, asset, issue, and crew into the operational dashboards command actually uses — and into SITREP packages ready for the daily brief. The same picture spans several camps, and goes out to the clients and subcontractors who need it.

People on site

Staff, occupants, and day users counted separately — live from gate scans, with headcount by zone. Audit-retained.

Requested vs operational

The capacity the client asked for against what is actually up and running.

Anyone outside a zone

Out-of-zone scans, flagged to command as they happen.

Bed occupancy

Assigned, available, projected, off-boarded today.

Meals served

Today's totals at a glance, with anomalies surfaced.

Open laundry

What is still outstanding, and anything in dispute.

Open & blocked issues

Maintenance, facilities, access, IT — in one view.

Asset condition

Generators, water, sanitation. Inspections + history.

Daily SITREP package

Auto-assembled at 18:00 for the operational brief.

Several camps, one platform

Run and monitor more than one basecamp from the same platform — each site with its own picture, and command able to see across all of them.

Shared, not rebuilt

Clients and subcontractors are given the part of the live picture that is relevant to them, instead of a separate report someone rebuilds by hand.

§ 08 · What it changes

What changes on site.

Less time spent counting, chasing, and reconciling — and a record of the camp that holds up afterward.

01

Delivery

Intake and badges are issued in minutes, so a site can start bringing people on as soon as it opens.

02

Operational effectiveness

Meals, laundry, and bed occupancy are tracked automatically, meaning no manual tally or end-of-day reconciliation.

03

Situational awareness

Every scan is audit-logged as it happens, and the daily SITREP builds itself instead of being assembled by hand.

04

Financial accounting and accountability

Meals, laundry, and beds are recorded against the person, the company, and the vendor — a record to bill and reconcile against.

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