For some time now, Dewalt has stepped it’s foot in the bluetooth connected tool control feature. Their method has been a bluetooth connected battery that lets you monitor battery status and heat, and also allowed the user to enable or disable the battery as a theft deterrent.
The battery feature was one step in the right direction but still lacked the breadth of features of Milwaukee’s One Key system which could control and track the power tools themselves. Then recently with the addition of the Milwaukee Tick, Milwaukee offered the ability to add One Key tool tracking features to non One Key enabled tools whether they were Milwaukee or not. Dewalt is following suit with what appears to be similar features to their 20V Max system.
Dewalt will be adding, and this is addition to the Bluetooth batteries, bluetooth connected tools with Dewalt Tool Connect built in, a new Tool Connect adapter that fits between the battery and the tool to give older tools bluetooth compatibility, and a new Dewalt Tool Connect Tag which is a small device similar in size to the Milwaukee Tick that gives any tool whether it’s a Dewalt tool or not connectivity to their Dewalt Tool Connect app for tool tracking.
So basically Dewalt is going full force head to head with Milwaukee’s One Key bluetooth connected system giving Dewalt users similar connectivity. But I like that Dewalt also added their own spin on the bluetooth connected feature such as the Dewalt Tool Connect adapter, that’s a new idea at the moment and is a good one. But my guess is that it probably doesn’t have full control of the tool as if the bluetooth tool connect feature was built in. We’ll probably just see features similar to the bluetooth batteries for the adapter such as monitoring battery status, heat, and the ability to disable and enable the battery and tool.
Not known at the moment since Dewalt has listed any specifics other than the pictures themselves. But the pictures say a lot! We can expect to hear more from Dewalt soon.
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