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West Connectivity Release Notes

v1.3

Release Date: November 2, 2023

Summary:

General Updates:

  • [UI] Login and register pages shows a completely new interface.
  • [UI] Marketplace has a new look and services/published elements are easier to pair.
  • [UI] Signals page now shows the subscribers of a specific signal.
  • [UI] Resource and Solution creation are simpler and easy to understand.
  • [UI] Create and publish solutions from Git repository.
  • [UI] New top bar contains better access to documentation, tutorial and support.
  • [Documentation] The documentation has been updated with a fresh, clear, and bright design.
  • Allow encryption and decryption of service configurations and environmental variables
  • Default disable device provisioning

Service Updated:

Connectivity

  • Support multiple resources and timestamps for setting device data.
  • Enable setting an order parameter while querying data.
  • The performance of time-series database CRUD operations has been improved by over 3 times.
  • Support device metrics query to show device connection status and metrics
  • Support both HTTP/MQTT protocols simultaneously.
  • Subscription to a signal will return last value as 1st value before sending real-time data.
  • Signal/resource event allows users to know when event data is duplicated.
  • Archives data daily in CSV format and isolated by solution

OPCUA

  • In the service configuration, a new field of data type has been added.

BIZAPI

  • Solution template now allows direct link to git repo.
  • Limit only West Employees can invite users to IoT Platform

Script

  • Allow query last value for both signal and resource from Lua.
  • Allow users to set solution environment variables.

Timer

  • Allow users to set timer that triggers once or by schedule
  • Allow users to reset timer
  • Allow users to receive/disable of timer timeout event

Dispatcher

  • Allow dynamic service integration to have cross namespace connection

Content

  • Allow users to upload file directly with pre-signed url
  • Expose max size environment and increase the value to be < 512MB

v1.2

Release Date: September 22, 2022

Summary:

West Connectivity v1.2 is released on iot.westpharma.com, with following new key features：

  1. Dynamic Service - Plug-&-Play and secure custom micro-service integration to the West Connectivity Marketplace
  2. Remote Data Sync - Synchronize plant data to cloud the cloud West Connectivity
  3. OPC-UA Integration - Ingest data from OPC-UA server, e.g. Kepware, directly into the West Connectivity
  4. Script QoS1 - Guaranteed data transformation and processing execution