Changelog
This page informs about new features and improvements
A sneak-peak about upcoming features on akenza:
- Data Flow
- No-code aggregations
- Various
- Better search & filtering for the Asset inventory
- Dark mode
- Device Types
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- Analytics Data Sink: store data directly in your SQL database (supported databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Oracle DB and MS SQL)
- Device Type Schema Builder: manage the data schema of custom device types for improved data governance
- Improved error messages in the platform
- Several bug fixes
- Billing Cockpit (beta): Gain insights about the current product usage
- Improved LoRaWAN device creation: Improved frequency plan selection
- Improved rule tag input combination
- Several bug fixes
- Dashboard builder: Initial Release of our dashboard builder to directly create dashboards with akenza
- Improved LoRaWAN support: Support for LoRa frequency plans and LoRaWAN 1.1
- Enhanced LoRaWAN CaaS offering for Swisscom: Roaming in large parts of Europe and Geolocation
- Device setup assistant: App for pairing devices to a physical location during the installation process
- UI update: akenza recharged UI style
- Various bug fixes
- Multi-tag rule inputs: Build your rule with a combination of multiple tags
- Geo location data: Support for displaying geo location data on a map on the device data overview
- Actility network localization: Support for Actility network localization (contact us for enabling it for Swisscom connectivity)
- Various bug fixes
- Add support for additional payload formats when using MQTT5 (text, xml and csv)
- Add support for geo fence logic blocks in the rule engine (verify that an asset is inside or outside of a geo fence)
- Various bug fixes
- add config for MQTT devices
- automatic configuration push to device when connecting to akenza
- automatic configuration push when adding a new configuration
- Add support for consecutive rule invocations for the akenza DB output connector
- Add Device Type Library page on the Data Flow overview to browse device types
- Various bug fixes
- JSON properties on Organizations and Workspaces
- Add support for Device Credentials🔐
- Certificate-based authentication for MQTT devices
- Add search on rule list
- Add validation for custom field names to improve usability during script-based access
- Dataflow create and edit improvements
- Improved rule timer interval logic
- Various bug fixes
- Change device ID validation to allow GUIDs and MAC addresses
- Fixes an issue with string custom field inputs
- Various bug fixes
- Bulk actions for registering / deregistering LoRa devices
- Custom Field Management
- Added a UI for managing custom fields in Workspace Settings
- CHANGED: Custom field names are now required to be unique
- Tag Management
- Added a UI for managing tags in Workspace Settings
- CHANGED: Tag names are now required to be unique
- Major UI/UX rework of the rule engine
- Various bug fixes
- New device connector for ChirpStack
- New Cibicom LoRaWAN integration and Connectivity-as-a-Service (CaaS)
- Adds option to include metadata for device data export
- Various bug fixes
- Visual update for data flows
- Increased email recipient limit of 25 for output connectors and rule actions
- Various bug fixes
- Introduces option to show/hide KPIs on the device detail page.
- Plenty of small UI improvements
- Various bug fixes
- Advanced rule timer functionality (fixed executions on specific weekdays, custom cron expressions)
- Adds custom fields as suggestions for templating in data flows and rules
- Various improvements and bug fixes
- Various improvements and bug fixes for the asset inventory
- Adds the possibility to use templating in custom database output connector topics
- Allows the use of bulk import also if there are no devices created yet
- Fixes a bug where not the current time was used for rule timers
- CaaS
- ewz - adds ewz Connectivity as a Service
- Various smaller bug fixes and improvement
- Integrations
- Everynet - adds the possibility to add Everynet integrations
- Assets
- Introduce an option to exclude devices from the lifecycle report
- Various smaller bug fixes and improvement
- User onboarding process
- Application setup
- Onboarding assistant with progress indicator and checklist
- Assets
- Built-in data generator
- API-key management
- Workspace scope on the API-key
- UI navigation
- Top to side navigation
- Data Flow
- Data Flow templates
- Mobile navigation
- Various smaller bug fixes and improvements
- Extended Device Type library with new Device Types
- Overall workspace metrics
- Routing refactoring
- Various smaller bug fixes and improvements
- Data Flow
- Extended Device Type library with new Device Types
- Organization overview
- Resource tile with supportive links
- Data Flow
- Display of integrations in device connector list
- Code editor
- Various code editor layout fixes (Applies for custom logic- and custom device type code editor)
- Various smaller bug fixes and improvements
- Asset Inventory
- Message logs
- Downlinks displayed in Message log on the device detail page. Sent downlink messages are stored as device messages. Topic name:
downlink_history
- Overview
- Deregister state of LoRa devices in column Connectivity status displayed in yellow
- Various smaller bug fixes and improvements
- Workspace overview metrics
- Data pipeline
- Device health overview
- Extended Device Type library with new Device Types
- Organization & Workspace navigation
- Back button to allow returning to the main navigation sidebar view
- Extended Device Type library with new Device Types
- Data Flow
- Redesign of device- & output connector
- Custom Logic
- Form refactoring (create & edit)
- Asset Inventory
- Device data export & delete
- Output connector
- Device Lifecycle notifications
- Allow sending weekly interval
- Asset Inventory
- Allow bulk for tags & custom fields
- Output Connector Microsoft Teams
- Allow "Send message only once"
- Asset Inventory
- Data History Chart improvements
- Available sensors and connectivity details on Custom Device Type improvements
- Rule
- Advanced templating for timed rules
- New event types on custom logic (UPLINK, DOWNLINK, TIMER)
- Mobile support
- Output Connector
- Extended Device Type library with new Device Types
- Custom payload
- Show template variable suggestions in custom payloads
- Device Detail Page
- Linked rules are displayed within device details. Includes all rules where the device is directly specified as input or where the device has a matching tag for the input
- Output Connectors
- Code-map on JSON editor disabled
- Validation for Azure IoT Hub connection string
- Integration
- Output Connector
- Extended Device Type library with new Device Types
- Tenant asset inventory
- Display Organization- & Workspace Columns
- Output connector
- Allow using Custom Payload for the Azure Output Connector
- Output Connector
- Allow templating of custom payload as array for Webhook output connectors
- Breaking Change: Update templating Syntax. Make sure to change the syntax according to the Payload Templating reference if the custom payload template is edited. The current configuration will still work if not changed or updated. There will be an adaption in the backend coming soon which will help with the transition to the new format until the old format is deprecated.
- Asset Inventory
- Update default selection of asset inventory columns
- Add column selector to the organization asset table
- Rules
- Align rule page header with data flow page header
- Device Detail
- Update labels for connectivity details
- General
- Update date time format
- Change tab switch animation
- Unify description item spacing in page headers
- Asset Inventory
- KPI Trend indicator on Device Detail Page
- Device offline timeout settings during creation, edit & bulk
- Output Connector
- Extended Device Type library with new Device Types:
- Data Flow
- Search field on Data Flow Overview Page
- Asset Inventory
- Battery level information on Asset Inventory & Asset Detail Page
- Output Connector
- Webhook connector allows URL templating
- Mail & SMS Output Connector
- Send every new incoming data sample or only once after the status has changed (optional field)
- Logs
- Logs emitted in scripts on processing log
- Asset Lifecycle Message notification
- Informs user-defined recipients about critical asset lifecycle events on workspace level about device offline, weak signal, low battery
- Extended Device Type library with new Device Types
- Milesight AM107
- Milesight AM104
- Milesight EM300-TH
- Milesight EM500-CO2
- Asset Detail Page
- Add units to Device Data KPIs
- Realtime update with WebSocket API
- Support for editing custom fields during bulk edit
- App navigation
- API-keys and Subscription as main navigation on organization level
- Custom fields and Asset Tags on asset creation form and edit view
- Deregistered devices removed from billed units
- App navigation allows opening nav item in a new tab
- Refactoring
- Asset Detail Page
- Sim Card Detail Page
- Various smaller bug fixes and improvements
- Integration
- Extended Device Type library with new Device Types
- DT Temperature sensor
- DT Touch sensor
- DT Proximity sensor
- DT Water sensor
- Asset Tags
- Asset tags on Asset Detail Page & Rule Engine for Asset grouping
- Asset Inventory
- Columns on Asset Overview Page
- Data Flow
- Device Type
- Creation- & modified date
- Show logs tab on the Asset detail page
- UI improvement on the Asset creation page
- Subscription
- Stop/ change active subscription
- Integration
- Rule Engine
- Pulse animation on selected input-, logic- and output block to emphasize user to connect blocks
- Asset Detail Page
- Autoscaling y-axis on data history chart
- General page header UI improvements
- Rule Engine
- Logic block: Cascade dropdown for mapped data source
- Overview Page: “Actions” tab with rule actions overview
- Register-/ deregister button to switch between two LoRa network carriers
- Asset Inventory
- Edit HTTP and MQTT devices
- Bulk actions
- Integration
- Everynet device connector as http decoding type
- EWZ LoRaWAN as new integration provider
- Rule Engine
- Rule activation/ deactivation
- Refactoring of Rule Engine
- "Akenza" as the sender of SMS
- Allow GET method in REST API
- Extended Device Type library with new Device Types
- Aiut ALEVEL 1x5 V1
- Aiut ALEVEL 1x5 V2
- AstraLED Mantis CO2, VOC luminaire
- Digital Matter Oyster
- GlobalSat LS-113G
- Talkpool OY1210
- Display account information on Integrations Overview Page
- Template improvement on Mail Output Connector
- Template improvement on Akenza DB Rule action
- API changes: deprecates hex_payload for LoRa uplinks in device types, instead use hexPayload
- Various UI improvements
- Data visualization
- Rule Engine
- Extended Device Type library with new Device Types
- Elsys ELT-2, ELT-Lite, EMS, EMS Desk, EMS Door, EMS Lite
- Sensative All Strips
- Synetica Enlink-T, Enlink-DP