We are pleased to announce that plan01s and plan01s Low Data Volume coverage now includes Uruguay.

In addition, LTE connectivity is now available for plan01s and plan01s Low Data Volume in the following countries:

• Georgia
• Jersey
• Qatar

For complete details about data rates, supported carriers, and coverage in other countries, please refer to the Supported Carriers documentation.

The IoT Wireless Unit Multi Converter Starter Kit by OPTEX Company, Limited is now available from the Soracom IoT Store.

This kit includes the IoT Wireless Unit Multi Converter OWU-310M, a battery-powered IoT gateway that can operate for approximately 10 years (when transmitting data twice a day). It does not require an external power supply and is IPX5 waterproof, making it suitable for outdoors installation as-is.

The IoT Wireless Unit Multi Converter Starter Kit includes a plan-D D-300MB IoT SIM for Japan.

IoT Wireless Unit Multi Converter Starter Kit

• Availability: Japan only
• Price: 107,800 yen (tax included, bundled with a 2,000 yen Soracom platform coupon)

Starter Kit contents:

• IoT Wireless Unit Multi Converter OWU-310M
• Dedicated battery for OWU-300M series, OWU-Battery300
• Soracom IoT SIM for Japan (plan-D D-300MB, nano size, data communication only)

For more information, please refer to the product page (Japanese).

Pricing calculator is the tool to calculate the estimated costs for IoT SIMs, devices and services for Japan coverage.

We have redesigned the pricing calculator to be easier to use, and estimate previews are now more detailed.

In addition, the following services are now supported:

• SORACOM Harvest Files
• SORACOM Inventory
• SORACOM Mosaic
• SORACOM Cloud Camera Services
• Priority support plan

For more details, please visit create estimate (Japanese).

When using Area Alert (Intrusion Detection Alert for Prohibited Areas), which is part of "Package20™, the coordinates of the area to be detected must be specified in the algorithm parameters (environment variables).

With this newly released coordinate editing feature, the coordinates can now be obtained in JSON format by drawing a line or rectangle while checking the camera image taken by S+ Camera. The way in which the coordinates specified in the algorithm parameters (environment variables) are handled depends on the algorithm. Currently, only Area Alert (Intrusion Detection Alert for Prohibited Areas) supports the coordinates, but you may also use your own algorithm. Please give it a try!

For more information, see pass coordinates on camera image to algorithm. (Japanese)

When purchasing SIMs from the Soracom IoT Store or through the User Console, SIMs will be pre-registered to your account. If you need to transfer the registration of a SIM to a different Soracom account, you can initiate a SIM transfer request directly from the User Console. However, this function is only available for SIMs that are still in the Ready status.

In order for customers to transfer SIMs that are in the Active, Inactive, Standby, or Suspended status, Soracom is now accepting SIM transfer requests. Upon receiving a request, Soracom will handle the process of transferring SIMs on your behalf.

Please note that the SIM transfer process will incur a processing fee. In addition, please be aware of the following conditions when requesting a SIM transfer:

• The account where the SIMs are currently registered and the account where the SIMs will be transferred to must be registered in the same country. SIMs cannot be transferred between accounts that are registered in different countries.
• SIM transfer requests must be initiated by the account where the SIMs are currently registered.
• Soracom will verify that the account where the SIMs will be transferred to has a valid payment method registered. If the account does not have a valid payment method, SIMs will not be transferred.
• Soracom will then send a confirmation email to the primary email address of the account that you want to transfer SIMs to in order to approve the transfer request. If confirmation is not completed, SIMs will not be transferred.
• If the confirmation is completed before the 20th of a given month, the SIM transfer will occur at the beginning of the next month. If the confirmation is completed on or after the 20th of a given month, the SIM transfer will occur one month later at the beginning of the following month.
• During the transfer, the following SIM settings will be preserved: Tags, Expiration settings, and IMEI Lock settings.
• During the transfer, the following SIM settings will not be preserved: Speed Class settings, Event Handler settings, and Group settings.
  • However, if you know the Group ID of a group belonging to the account where the SIMs will be transferred to, you may specify it in the SIM transfer request, and each SIM's Group setting will be set accordingly during the transfer.
• Once SIMs have been transferred, any existing data sessions will be deleted automatically. If your device is not configured to automatically create a new data session, you may need to restart or reboot your device.

You may submit a SIM transfer request at any time by logging into the User Console, accessing the Support > Contact Us menu, and submitting a new support request ticket.

Customers may continue to transfer Ready status SIMs at no additional charge directly from the User Console.

Soracom Air Metadata Service is a service that allows a device using a Soracom IoT SIM to obtain information about the SIM itself, as well as to modify its subscription configuration, by making simple HTTP requests over the Soracom Air cellular connection.

By default, all HTTP requests sent to the Metadata Service will return a response that contains the SIM details in the response body. While this is normally expected for HTTP GET requests, some applications do not require receiving these details for POST and PUT requests, and the extra response body can result in unnecessary data usage.

With this update, a new Minimize response body option is available for Metadata Service. When enabled, Metadata Service will suppress adding SIM details to the response body for HTTP POST and PUT requests, and instead will return only a 204 status code.

Please note that HTTP GET requests made to Metadata Service will continue to return SIM details in the response body even with the option enabled.

Soracom Funk is an adapter service that allows a device to directly invoke a cloud function service such as AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, or Google Cloud Functions.

When Funk forwards a request to a cloud function, metadata such as IMSI and Operator ID is added to the forwarded data. This metadata can be used in your function to implement logic that requires these values.

With this update, the metadata will now also include the SIM ID. With the SIM ID, you will now be able to write your cloud functions to call a Soracom SIM level API or consolidate logic for SIMs that have multiple IMSIs with Subscription Containers, without the need to separately query the SIM ID associated with the IMSI.

When using Funk with AWS Lambda, a new simId property is now included in the clientContext attribute of the context object.

When using Funk with Azure or Google Cloud Functions, a new simId property is now included in the ctx attribute of the decoded JWT token payload, which itself is sent to the function in the x-soracom-token request header.

Soracom Orbit is an inline data processing service that gives you the ability to write a WebAssembly (WASM) module that transforms device data as it passes to and from the cloud. Soracom provides SDKs for developing WASM modules in multiple programming languages.

Soracom Orbit Development Environment version 2022-05 is now available, which updates the following development dependencies:

• AssemblyScript
  • Update Node.js to v16 LTS
  • Update development dependencies
    • jest 27.5.1
    • prettier 2.6.2
    • eslint 8.16.0
    • TypeScript 4.7.2
• Rust
  • Update Rust to 1.61.0
• TinyGo
  • Update TinyGo to 0.23.0
• Common
  • Update SORACOM CLI installation method, which will install the latest version while creating your development container

For more information, please refer to the Soracom Orbit: Environment Setup documentation.

As of May 26, 2022, pricing for the S+ Camera WP v2.1 has been revised.

• Old price: ¥109,780
• New price: ¥105,600

Prices are in Japanese Yen (¥) and include Japanese consumption tax.

For more details, visit the product page (Japanese).

Soracom Funnel is an adapter service that forwards data from a device directly to a cloud service.

By default, when Funnel forwards data, metadata such as IMSI and timestamp is added to the forwarded data, which can be helpful for many applications. However, in some use cases, you may want to disable this behavior. With this update, you can now select the Payload only option which will suppress adding metadata and instead send the data as-is.

In addition, when using Funnel to forward binary data to AWS IoT, Funnel will encode the data in base-64 for compatibility before sending it to AWS IoT. This update also introduces a new Send Payload as Binary option which will send binary data as-is without base-64 encoding.

To use the Send Payload as Binary option, choose the AWS IoT service, then select Binary as the content type, enable the Payload only option, and finally enable the Send Payload as Binary option.

You can find additional information in the Soracom Funnel documentation.