A new API has been added to Soracom Cloud Camera Services for overriding export limits.

Previously, the maximum amount of video/still images that could be exported via the User Console or Soracom API/CLI was limited to 72 hours per month, per device.

With the new API, this export limit can now be freely set. For example, if you set the export limit to 100 hours, you can export up to 100 hours per month, per device.

• Simply changing the export limit will not incur overage fees.
• However, exporting beyond original 72 hours will incur hourly overage fees.

For more information on setting the export limit, see Setting Recorded Video Time Available for Export (Japanese).

The Soracom LTE-M Button is an easily-configured, battery-powered IoT button with cloud-native connectivity, designed for use in a variety of IoT applications, including facility management, elderly monitoring, asset monitoring, and industrial maintenance.

Device Features

• 3 click types (single, double, long) let you build and customize different actions.
• Send button click events to cloud services such as AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure using Soracom Beam, Funk, Funnel, or Harvest.
• Button click data is sent using binary to minimize cellular data usage, and can be converted to JSON format with Binary Parser.
• Global LTE-M coverage provided by a built-in Soracom Air plan01s-LDV SIM (MFF2).
• Minimum 2,000 clicks with 2 user-replaceable LR6/AA batteries.
• IP54 rating helps protect against water and dust ingress.
• External I/O port (3.5mm jack) and 2-wire accessory that provides a way to trigger a button press electronically.

• Availability: France, Germany, United Kingdom, and United States
• Coverage: Please refer to the Supported Carriers documentation for a list of LTE-M networks currently available.
• Promotional Price: USD $54.99 (excluding tax; bundled with USD $15.00 Soracom platform coupon, valid for 12 months)

For more information, please refer to the product page.

We are experiencing a service degradation on T-Mobile Germany (Deutsche Telekom). Devices that are configured to connect to this network with a plan01s IoT SIM may have difficulty attaching. Other networks in Germany (Telefonica O2 and Vodafone) are working normally, and we are closely monitoring devices as they transition to other available networks.

If your devices are not configured to automatically reconnect to another available network, you may need to manually perform a power-cycle in order to resume network connectivity.

We are actively working with our network partner to re-establish service. We will keep you updated about any further information.

Soracom Beam is a proxy service for forwarding data from a device to an endpoint that you specify, such as a server or a cloud service. We previously announced a new feature that allows you to add various authorization headers to the data forwarded by Beam.

With this update, you can now select Amazon Location Service when configuring an AWS Signature V4 header option. This option is available when using Beam's Website entry point.

Configuring this option will allow Beam to send data such as location information to Amazon Location Service for device location tracking.

For more information, please refer to the following page (in Japanese):

• Sending requests to Amazon Location Service Tracking using IAM authentication

We have released two new APIs which allow you to check the data usage across multiple SIMs:

• Stats:getAirStatsOfGroup: Gets the data usage history of all SIMs belonging to a specified group.
• Stats:getAirStatsOfOperator: Gets the data usage history of all SIMs belonging to a specified operator. (Note that you can only query your own operator.)

These APIs allow you to obtain the daily or monthly data usage history at a group or operator level. This can be helpful if you want to check the total data usage of all SIMs belonging to a particular group, for example, without having to check data usage for each SIM individually and calculating the total separately.

Note that if a SIM is removed from a group in the middle of the Event Handler's daily or monthly period, any data usage that occurred prior to removal will still be counted towards that group's total traffic. Similarly, if a SIM is added to a group in the middle of the period, any previous data usage before the change will not be counted.

The Billing Dashboard now features service billing panels. These panels show a breakdown of usage charges by service, such as Soracom Beam charges or Soracom Harvest charges, for the month selected at the top of the Billing Dashboard.

The item name of the breakdown displayed in the panel of each service adheres to the billItemName of the Detailed Billing CSV. For additional information about each individual bill item name, please refer to CSV Item Name Reference.

SmartFitPRO Series Starter Kits by Kyokko Electric Co., Ltd. are now available from the Soracom IoT Store.

The SmartFitPRO Series are IoT gateways with a contact input/output interface. IoT gateway SmartFitPRO Basic Starter Kit and IoT gateway SmartFitPRO Standard Starter Kit are now available from the Soracom IoT Store and each include a plan-D D-300MB Soracom IoT SIM for Japan.

IoT gateway SmartFitPRO Basic Starter Kit

• Availability: Japan only
• Price: 27,280 yen (tax included)
• Bundled with a 2,000 yen Soracom platform coupon (valid for 6 months, applicable to services with Japan coverage only)
• Included Accessories: Contact I/O cable, Soracom IoT SIM for Japan (plan-D D-300MB, data communication only)

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

IoT gateway SmartFitPRO Standard Starter Kit

• Availability: Japan only
• Price: 36,080 yen (tax included)
• Bundled with a 2,000 yen Soracom platform coupon (valid for 6 months, applicable to services with Japan coverage only)
• Included Accessories: 8-channel contact I/O cable, Soracom IoT SIM for Japan (plan-D D-300MB, data communication only)

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

When reviewing your monthly service charges, you can download detailed billing CSV files from the User Console. These files contain the full breakdown of all usage, service, and option charges, organized according to the SIM associated with the charge.

With this update, we have added a SIM ID column (simId) in the billing CSV data. Now, in addition to identifying SIMs based on their IMSI number, you can also identify them based on their SIM ID. This can be especially helpful if your SIMs are utilizing the Subscription Container service and each SIM contains multiple IMSIs.

For more information about the billing CSV, please refer to Billing Information: Detailed Billing CSV.

The Soracom User Console now offers a convenient Billing Dashboard screen that allows you to quickly and easily check your recent Soracom usage fees.

To acces the Billing Dashboard, click your account menu at the top right of the User Console and select Billing Dashboard. From there, you can select your current or previous 3 months of billing periods to see a detailed breakdown of charges.

Please note:

• The Billing Dashboard corresponds to your coverage type. If you are using both Global Coverage and Japan Coverage, you will need to switch between the two to see the Billing Dashboard for each coverage type.
• The amounts displayed for the current month's usage reflect the cumulative charges incurred to date and include coupons and applicable taxes, however the actual usage total may differ once the final bill is calculated at the end of the month.

Soracom Krypton is a credential provisioning service that securely initializes IoT devices using Soracom Air SIM authentication in order to provide secure access to cloud services such as AWS IoT or Amazon Cognito.

With this update, Krypton now supports provisioning credentials using Azure IoT Hub.

For more information, please refer to the following documentation:

• Soracom Krypton Overview | SORACOM Developers
• Provisioning with Azure IoT Hub | SORACOM Developers
• Configuring Soracom Krypton | SORACOM Developers