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While accessing real-time asset data is crucial, it’s just as important to visualize the data to understand what’s happening. That’s why our focus in the latest release of Bolt Data Connect has been on elevating data visualizations. Plus, we’ve introduced general enhancements to our existing visualization tools.
In this release, interacting with your asset data has become even more intuitive and quick. All within Salesforce, you can seamlessly stream real-time asset data, inspect real-time digital twin data to diagnose individual components, and now, create Visual Twins of your assets to have a lifelike representation.
Visual Twin Editor & Viewer
Our most highly anticipated feature in this release is the ability to create Visual Twins. The new Visual Twin allows admins to upload and annotate images of assets and tag individual anchor points for Sensors, Calculated Fields and Alert Conditions.
The Visual Twin can be displayed on each Asset page to show real-time sensor values in pop-up displays. Plus, you can take snapshots of the Visual Twin at any time and view them in the timeline.
IoT Audit Trail
A new Audit Trail table in the IoT Cloud captures key events such as Register API, Gateway Integration Update API, and Thing Type Update API. The Audit table includes columns for Audit-Type, Datetime, Textual Difference (DIFF), and JSON Value. This enhancement ensures a comprehensive record of crucial actions.
Enhanced Simulators
Simulators have improved stability, now running within Salesforce and publishing messages via API. They’ve also been enhanced with new features, including:
Enhanced Digital Twins
Digital Twins receive additional enhancements, including improved iconography for visual element and status differentiation, the ability to subscribe to the IoT data stream for all assets in the Digital Twin, and a Digital Twin History feature with a timeline scroller.
Sensor Data: Asset Attributes
In Salesforce, Asset Attributes offer enhanced insights into asset conditions, enabling mobile workers to perform more efficient repairs and maintenance in the field. Typically, each asset encompasses multiple attributes. With this new feature, we’re introducing support for Asset Attributes within Sensor Data Sync.
Please note that this addition will be available once the Asset Attribute changes become Generally Available (GA).
Bolt Data Connect’s latest release doubles down on servitization, adding lots of new functionality including Tiered & Advanced Pricing Policies, Embedded Pricing, Negative Usage Handling and more. We also added Automated Alert Handling, to allow the admins to easily configure how the system responds to the IoT Alerts with clicks-not-code!
If you have any questions or would like to submit a feature request, send us a message! Existing Bolt Data Connect customers can access the support portal by logging in.
The Servitization engine has been enhanced with several new features including:
Alert Response handling is a clicks-not-code solution to handling the IoT Alerts received from the IoT Cloud. You can auto-create any response Object (Case, Work Order, Lead, etc.) in response to an IoT Alert, and customize how different Thing Types and/or Alert Types are handled. In addition, you can configure Thing (Asset) updates, auto created related child records, auto-create IoT Data Snapshots and exit condition updates (e.g. Cancel Work Order, Close Case, etc).
New setting on Alert Conditions that allow the admin to specify if the Alert Type will impact Uptime calculations for “Downtime Periods” and “Servitization”.
REST Web Service allowing integrations or custom code to easily retrieve the latest Digital Twin dat
At a glance view of all of your “Things” connected to Bolt Data Connect and the Thing Types, Status, Alert History and Sensor Data available in Salesforce.
The Thing Chart component now has the ability to stream live IoT data into Salesforce! No need to refresh the page any longer… just click the stream button and monitor the data to diagnose an issue with ease.
Simulators are now fully controllable from inside Salesforce too! Simulators allow you to create simulated Things, to ease testing without the need for a physical IoT device & conditions. With the new Simulator Management console you have complete control over the simulated things, sensor values and modes of operation.
Servitization is the ability to use IoT data to drive “outcome as a service” for your customers. By setting up a Servitization Plan, with both Usage and Uptime based items, you can automatically generate invoices / quotes for customers based on their use of your IoT connected assets.
Add State Machine calculated fields to Thing Types, allowing you to more accurately model the physical and logical behavior of your devices. Using the new editor, you can easily define stateful local variables, states & sub-states, and transitions. You can also access the current state and any local variable in any other Calculated Field or Alert Condition too.
For customers with their own IoT Cloud, we’ve now fully exposed the Bolt Data Connect Connector API to allow you to use the Bolt Data Connect Salesforce App with your own IoT Cloud by implementing a single Apex Class.
