Motor control center components are tagged and monitored to produce accurate information on the location and identification of the components in closed and sealed motor control center bays, sections, and enclosures. Wireless polling signals may allow for locating the tagged components, and the tags may store or access component-identifying data and, where desired, condition data for the component or its environment in the motor control center. The data may be collected wirelessly and made available to local or remote monitoring equipment, controllers, workstations, human machine interfaces, and so forth.