Soracom Flux is an IoT automation service that helps improve operations by combining processes such as notifications and generative AI-based analysis using IoT data collected from sensors, cameras, and other devices. With Soracom Flux, you can process various inputs with rules and actions, send webhooks to external services based on the results, and notify team members by Slack or email.

The Soracom Flux Webhook action now supports authentication using Google Cloud Service Accounts (Google Service Account authentication). By registering a Service Account JSON key in the Credential Store, you can send webhooks to Google APIs accessible by the Service Account, such as Google Sheets.

Previously, you could connect to Google APIs from the Webhook action by using the Bearer Token (JWT) authentication method. However, you had to configure the JWT claims and scopes yourself. With Google Service Account authentication, you only need to register the Service Account JSON key, and Soracom Flux automatically obtains the access token required by the target Google API.

For details, refer to Webhook Action and Add Rows to Google Sheets. If you have any questions, please contact Soracom Support.

You can now force-invalidate the active sessions of a user when changing or deleting that user's password from the Soracom User Console. This helps you immediately cut off access for a user who has left the organization, respond quickly to suspected unauthorized access, or rotate permissions during organizational changes.

Previous limitation

Until now, even after you changed or deleted a user's password, any session that the user had already obtained by signing in remained active. To revoke access immediately, you had to wait for the existing session to expire on its own.

Force session invalidation when changing or deleting a user password

On the password change or delete screen for a user, you can now choose to invalidate that user's active sessions in the same operation. When you select this option, the target user's active sessions are invalidated immediately, and the user must sign in again to use the Soracom User Console or the Soracom API.

For details, refer to Change or delete a SAM user's password (Japanese).

If you have any questions, please contact Soracom Support.

Flux's Simple Object Detection action now includes a feature that allows you to specify the objects to be detected.

Previously, the Simple Object Detection action detected all supported object classes. With this update, you can now specify Desired Class Labels to target only specific object classes for detection.

Multiple filters can also be specified. This allows for more efficient data processing by focusing detection on specific object classes.

For more details, please refer to Flux Simple Object Detection Action.

Session history for plan-MC IoT SIMs is now available in the Soracom User Console. View session info and history under the "Session details" tab in the IoT SIM details screen.

Please refer to Viewing Detailed Session Status for more details.

If you have any questions, please contact Soracom Support.

Please note that this service is currently only available for customers located in Japan.

Soracom IoT SIMs utilize OTA (Over-the-Air) updates for remotely adding and managing Subscription Containers and applying SIM configuration changes. With this update, a new OTA updates tab has been added to the IoT SIM details page, allowing you to monitor and manage these updates directly from the Soracom User Console.

From the OTA updates tab, you can:

• View update history: See a list of OTA updates performed for a specific IoT SIM, such as status, start time, and last updated time.
• Check detailed status: See detailed information for a specific update, such as overall campaign status and the number of scripts sent.
• Retry failed updates: Retrigger failed update immediately (if online) or on the next connection (if offline).

This improvement allows you to easily track the progress of OTA updates and quickly take corrective actions from the User Console, reducing the time required to identify and resolve update issues.

Note: This feature is available only in Global Coverage.

If you have any questions, please contact Soracom Support.

Soracom Flux has added a new action: "Email Notification Action (Advanced)".

The "Email Notification Action (Advanced)" allows you to attach images when sending emails to specified email addresses. This enables you to view images captured by RTSP camera or images processed using AI analysis via email.

This feature is available on the Standard Plan and Enterprise Plan.

For details, see Email Notification Action (Advanced) (Japanese). If you have any questions, please contact Soracom Support.

Batch Processing is a feature that allows you to easily repeat specific tasks for a large number of IoT SIMs by simply uploading a CSV file of SIMs in the User Console and selecting an action to perform.

With this update, Batch Processing now supports the Sim:addSubscription API, allowing you to add Subscription Containers to multiple IoT SIMs at once.

For detailed instructions, please refer to the Batch Processing documentation.

If you have any questions, please contact Soracom Support.

Data usage history for plan-MC IoT SIMs is now available in the Soracom User Console. Open the IoT SIM details screen and select the Usage tab to review past usage trends. Use this information to track costs, manage budgets, and detect anomalies in data usage.

If you have any questions, please contact Soracom Support.

Please note that this service is currently only available for customers located in Japan.

We are pleased to release a new feature for the Soracom Beam MQTT entry point which allows messages sent to an MQTT broker to be copied and saved to Soracom Harvest Data at the same time.

Previously, MQTT messages sent from a device to Soracom Beam could only be forwarded to an MQTT broker, and could not be saved in Soracom Harvest Data. With this new feature, MQTT messages can also be saved to Soracom Harvest Data, enabling more efficient data visualization and analysis.

Usage

To enable this feature:

• From the Soracom User Console: Edit your Soracom Beam MQTT entry point settings and enable the "Copy to Soracom Harvest Data" option.
• Using the Soracom API or CLI: Use the Group:putConfigurationParameters API or the soracom groups put-config command to set the SoracomBeam namespace fork.SoracomHarvest option to true.

You will also need to enable Soracom Harvest Data for the corresponding group.

Messages will be saved to Soracom Harvest Data in JSON format, with attributes mqttTopic containing the topic name and mqttPayload containing the message content.

Notes

• Before using this feature, verify the format and configuration of the data sent from your device.
• Temporary system errors may cause message copying to fail, but this does not affect message delivery to the MQTT broker.

For more details, please refer to the Soracom Beam documentation.

If you have any questions, please contact Soracom Support.

The Soracom Pricing Calculator now supports creating estimates for Global coverage. Previously, estimates were limited to Japan coverage.

Estimates for Global coverage are displayed in USD. Tax handling depends on the service.

The calculator does not provide a feature to select a destination country or zone to automatically calculate usage charges. Use the estimate as a reference for Soracom services and IoT SIM offerings available in Japan.

For more details on the Pricing Calculator, please refer to the Create an Estimate (Japanese) documentation.

If you have any questions, please contact Soracom Support.

Please note that this service is currently only available for customers located in Japan.