Time Series Chart with events

The Time Series Chart widget allows now to display events along the data points of displayed metrics.

In the Remote Diagnostic use case, the Technician users will be able to see the correlation between failures and metrics data, this makes diagnostics easier, even remotely, and thus speeds up troubleshooting activities.

In the Console, when placing the Time Series Chart widget, you can now specify a query on the events to be loaded (e.g. Event Severity = FAILURE).  For each found event, a marker is displayed under the x-axis, and by clicking on the marker, a tooltip displays the event details and the chart area corresponding to the event duration is highlighted according to the event severity.    

Event List improvements

Events log inspection and analysis is crucial for technician users which must identify the cause of a problem, so for this reason, the Event List widget usability has been improved.

In the DPS it is now possible to directly switch between active and historical events, without the need to use two different list in the same page (one for active and one for historical events). In this way, pages are less complex to consult, facilitating the work of technicians who need a clear and easy access to information.

When an active event is selected, the widget displays the action buttons, allowing for instance to mark an event as Take Over or still Open. Actions can also be executed on multiple events at a time. The event list widget now uses the same user experience as for the thing list. 

Product Model schema based on SVG

To assist technician users in identifying the right spare part, the schema of product models can be made clickable by using an SVG instead of a simple image. SVG text elements are automatically transformed into interactive elements and when clicked the corresponding spare part or sub model part is opened.

The schema view now supports also pan and zoom functionalities to facilitate the visualization of large schemes.

New general purpose algorithms

In case you need to aggregate or count metric values with a daily frequency, and save results data as an insight metric, you can now leverage these new predefine algorithms.

• Aggregation: permits to apply an aggregation function (Min, Max, Avg) to input metric values.
• Counter: permits to apply a counting function (Count, Sum, Elapsed Time) to input metric values.
  Optionally, the counter can be based on a condition that is applied to metric values.

These algorithms can be used by Insight Metrics; the calculation takes place once a day and a single value is generated each day. By using these algorithms, Computed DPH can be saved, and the result values will have a longer data retention than normal computed metrics.

Discard consecutive equal published values

Suppose to have an ambient temperature sensor that produces data points with a frequency higher than the actual temperature variation. This can generate unnecessary data points that also consume DPH for Data Points Processing.

In order to save DPH, in a Simple Metric, it is possible to specify whether the IoT connector, during data ingestion, should discard consecutive values that have not changed since the previous publication.

A discarded data point is considered as not having been published at all.

Partner List improvements

In the DPS when the organization back-office displaying the Partner List was able to see only the partners directly associated to the parent organization. Now the partner list has been improved, and the DPS user can decide whether to load also the partners associated to the sub organizations recursively. This facilitates partner management by structured and multi country based OEM organizations.  

Bug fixes (DPS)

• In the Connection Tokens widget, it was not possible to select the HTTP Connector as IoT Connector.
• In the editing page of a Thing the presence of BLOB properties was resulting in a wrong Save button enablement.
• The details popup for the alert and event list widgets did not work with mobile navigation.