We would like to inform customers of the following network coverage updates for Soracom Air for Cellular global coverage connectivity.

plan01s-LDV

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

We are pleased to announce that the ATOM Cam Swing Dedicated LAN Adapter is now available in the Soracom IoT Store. This adapter allows the ATOM Cam Swing camera device to communicate using a LAN connection in order to improve connection stability in various environments, such as:

• Areas where electrical noise is generated by machinery or equipment, such as in a factory
• Areas where the Wi-Fi signal strength is weak, such as in a large store or warehouse
• Areas where there are multiple Wi-Fi networks, leading to signal interference
• Areas where a large number of devices are connected to a single Wi-Fi access point

ATOM Cam Swing Dedicated LAN Adapter

• Available countries and regions: Japan
• Price: 2,530 yen (including tax, shipping not included)

Please note that this LAN adapter is only compatible with ATOM Cam Swing units sold on or after December 1, 2024.

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

When using Soracom Flux AI Actions to send instructions or questions to an AI model, requests are managed using Flux credits. For example, using the Amazon Bedrock Anthropic Claude 3 Haiku AI model consumes 10 Flux credit per request.

We have revised the number of credits consumed for the Azure OpenAI (GPT-4o) Flux AI action as follows:

For more information, please refer to the following documentation:

• Flux pricing and credits
• How to check your remaining credits

We are pleased to announce that Soracom Flux is now compatible with Amazon Bedrock - Amazon Nova.

When building a Flux application, you can specify an AI Action in order to send a request to an AI model for processing. With this update, you can now send requests to the Amazon Bedrock - Amazon Nova model.

Each Amazon Bedrock - Amazon Nova request will consume Flux credits according to the following types of request:

Note that at this time, the Amazon Bedrock - Amazon Nova Lite and Amazon Bedrock - Amazon Nova Pro support text and image input; the Amazon Bedrock - Amazon Nova Micro only supports text input. Neither model supports video.

For more information, see the Soracom Flux documentation.

When using Soracom Flux AI Actions to send instructions or questions to an AI model, requests are managed using Flux credits. For example, using the Amazon Bedrock Anthropic Claude 3 Haiku AI model consumes 10 Flux credit per request.

Due to the price revision of the Google Gemini 1.5 Flash price revision, we have revised the number of credits consumed for the Google Gemini 1.5 Flash Flux AI Action as follows:

For more information, please refer to the following documentation:

• Flux pricing and credits
• How to check your remaining credits

We have released two new Soracom Cloud Camera Services (SoraCam) APIs for saving data to Soracom Harvest Data. When using these APIs, the data saved to Harvest Data will be associated with a compatible camera device.

• SoraCam:createSoraCamDeviceDataEntry API
• SoraCam:updateSoraCamDeviceDataEntry API

For example, you can send an image captured by a SoraCam device to an AI service for image analysis and then save the results of the analysis, such as the number of people in the image or whether or not specific objects were detected, to Harvest Data.

This data will be associated with the SoraCam device, and can then be viewed through the Soracom User Console, as well as using the Harvest Data APIs below:

• DataEntry:getDataEntries API
• DataEntry:getDataEntry API.

Pricing

When using these new APIs to save data to Harvest Data, the following Soracom Harvest Data Service, Data Submit and Data Export fees will apply (prices below include consumption tax):

• Service fees - A JPY 5.5 per day, per device fee applies for each SoraCam compatible camera device, regardless of the number of API calls made to save data.
• Data Submit fees - A JPY 0.0044 per API call fee applies when the number API calls made for a particular SoraCam compatible camera device exceeds 2,000 calls per day.
• Data Export fees - Data Export fees depend on whether the Harvest Data Extended Retention Option is enabled in your Soracom account:
  • If the Extended Retention Option is enabled, a JPY 550 per 1 GiB fee applies when the total amount of data exported from Harvest Data exceeds 3 GiB in a month. The amount of data exported also includes data viewed through the User Console.
  • If the Extended Retention Option is not enabled, no Data Export fees are incurred regardless of the total amount of data exported from Harvest Data.

Please note that if these APIs are used to associated data with a device other than a SoraCam compatible camera devices, Harvest Data fees will still apply according to the group of the corresponding device (such as an IoT SIM or other device) where the Soracom Harvest Data service is enabled.

Free Tier

A free tier for Harvest Data Service fees is also included with every Soracom account:

• The first 31 device-days for the Harvest Data Service fee are free each month
• The free tier is applied at the end of each month, and unused device-days are not carried over into subsequent months
• If using Harvest Data with other non-SoraCam compatible camera devices, the free tier is shared among the other devices; a separate free tier for Soracom compatible camera devices is not available

For example, if data from 4 SoraCam compatible camera devices is saved to Soracom Harvest Data for 10 days, the Service fee will be calculated as 4 camera devices × 10 days = 40 device-days. After subtracting the 31 device-day free tier, the remaining 9 device-days will be billed.

For additional Harvest Data pricing and free tier details, please refer to the Pricing & Fee Schedule.

We have made several improvements to the SIM Actions menu interface in order to make it easier to use:

• Related actions are now grouped together, making them easier to find.
• When certain actions are not available, they are automatically hidden to reduce the size of the Actions menu.
• Some menu item names have been improved to indicate their function more clearly.

We are excited to continue bringing additional interface improvements in the coming months.

We have added a Platform Version option to the Soracom Beam TCP → HTTP/HTTPS and UDP → HTTP/HTTPS entry point configuration. By changing the Platform Version option, you can control the format of the Beam response returned to the device.

The available Platform Version options are 202411 and 201509. For more information on the differences between these Platform Versions, please refer to the following documentation:

• TCP → HTTP/HTTPS Entry Point (Japanese)
• UDP → HTTP/HTTPS Entry Point (Japanese)

If you have an existing Beam TCP → HTTP/HTTPS or UDP → HTTP/HTTPS entry point configuration, the Platform Version option will be set to 201509 automatically. This version keeps the existing response format behavior of Beam, and no additional action is required.

We are pleased to announce that the Wio BG770A v1.0, a low-power cellular IoT device development board by Seeed K.K., is now available in the Soracom IoT Store.

The Wio BG770A v1.0 is a development board equipped with a microcontroller that can be programmed using the Arduino IDE and supports LTE-M and NB-IoT cellular communication.

The development board is equipped with four Grove connectors, enabling connection to various Grove modules such as sensors and actuators.

It supports low-power LTE-M communication features (eDRX/PSM), allowing the development of low-power consumption applications. Additionally, it supports 3.4-17V DC input via an onboard PH connector, making it suitable for use with alkaline or Li-Po batteries.

Wio BG770A v1.0

• Available countries and regions: Japan
• Compatible Soracom subscriptions:
  • Global Coverage: plan01s, planX3
  • Japan Coverage: plan-D, plan-KM1
• Price: ¥14,850 (tax included, shipping separate)
  • Includes a ¥1,000 Soracom platform coupon (valid for 6 months, applicable only to services within Japan Coverage)
  • Soracom IoT SIM is not included.

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

We would like to inform customers that the LINE notification feature of Soracom Lagoon 3 and Soracom Flux will no longer be available due to the discontinuation of the LINE Notify service, which will be terminated on March 31, 2025.

Soracom Lagoon 3

If you are using LINE notifications in the Contact points settings, a notice similar to the following will be displayed in Lagoon:

Soracom Flux

The LINE notification action will no longer be provided.

Alternative Methods

If you require LINE notification functionality, the LINE Messaging API is being provided as an alternative. For information on how to migrate to the LINE Messaging API, please refer to LINE Notify discontinuation (Japanese) announcement.

Other notification methods will still be available in Soracom Lagoon 3 and Soracom Flux. If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact Soracom Support.