We are excited to announce App Templates for Soracom Flux, a new experience that lets you to effortlessly create Flux apps using predefined configurations.

While Flux provides an easy-to-use interface for building sophisticated IoT applications, apps need to be created from scratch, including selecting data sources, adding channels and actions, and configuring how data is processed and transmitted.

App Templates help you by building a fully-configured Flux App, which you can then customize to suit your specific needs. Simply select a template that best matches the objective of your IoT application and follow the guided prompts.

For detailed instructions on how to use the templates, please refer to the Soracom Flux App Templates documentation.

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact Soracom Support.

You can now use OpenAI's AI models in Soracom Flux without needing to provide your own API key!

Previously, running these models required setting up an OpenAI API key. Now, you can simply use Soracom Flux credits to run AI Actions with OpenAI's AI models.

Below is the number of credits consumed per request for the newly supported OpenAI models:

Model	Credits per Request
OpenAI (GPT-4.1)	29 credits
OpenAI (GPT-4.1-mini)	6 credits
OpenAI (GPT-4.1-nano)	2 credits
OpenAI (GPT-4o)	35 credits
OpenAI (GPT-4o mini), without image	3 credits
OpenAI (GPT-4o mini), with image	60 credits

Please note that you can still use your own OpenAI API key with any of the above models.

For more information, see the Soracom Flux documentation.

We are excited to announce the official release of Soracom Query, a fully-featured IoT data analytics platform for securely collecting, storing, and analyzing IoT data. After an initial limited release in 2023, Query is now available to all customers and brings powerful new features for performing large-scale IoT data analysis, creating real-time visualizations, and even building complex queries using natural language.

Query Assistant AI

This release introduces Query Assistant AI, a built-in tool that empowers users to generate complex data analysis by simply describing the desired output in natural language. Users can write queries such as:

• "Show me a list of devices with the highest data usage from the past week"
• "Find anomalies in the data sent by my devices"

Query Assistant AI automatically converts these into SQL for reliable data analysis, allowing users to easily explore and gain valuable insights into their IoT application without needing to be familiar with database structures.

Store, Visualize, and Connect Your Data

Query works seamlessly with other Soracom services, such as Harvest for securely storing data on platform, and Lagoon for building powerful dashboards and visualizations from Query data analysis results, eliminating the need to set up, transfer, and process data using external cloud services.

For power users, Query also supports connecting its data analysis features directly to external BI tools for full control of deeper analysis.

Plans to Fit Every Use Cases

Query is available in three plans:

• Trial Plan: An introductory plan that allows you to test all of Query's features for 2 months
• Business Plan: A standard monthly subscription suitable for most deployments
• Enterprise Plan: An advanced plan that adds cross-account data analysis, database access, and custom report delivery

To learn more about Soracom Query and get started, visit the Soracom Query documentation.

We are pleased to release a new feature that allows you to assign category names to IoT device data stored in Soracom Harvest Data!

With this feature, you can set a category name for each IoT SIM group where Harvest Data is enabled. In turn, when IoT SIM devices in the group send data, that data is stored with the category name, allowing you to group data across multiple devices instead of managing each device's data separately. This makes it easier to visualize trends and run analysis across similar types of data.

These categories also work with Soracom Query, allowing you to perform more sophisticated IoT data analysis grouped or filtered by category, calculate averages, maximums, and minimums across multiple devices, and more.

For more information on configuring Harvest Data categories and Query usage, refer to the Harvest Data and Query documentation.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Soracom Support.

We are proud to announce Wisora, a new generative AI service designed to support your business, now open for early registration!

Wisora leverages your organization’s existing product and service documents and web content to generate automated responses to employee and customer inquiries. It can answer questions directly or suggest helpful responses, making it useful for both internal teams and customer-facing scenarios.

Wisora is ideal for:

• Answering customer support inquiries
• Powering internal help desks
• Enhancing marketing websites with intelligent Q&A touchpoints

Key Features

• Easy bot creation for internal or external use by loading content from web pages, PDFs, HTML, and Office documents.

  

• Accurate, AI-powered responses using retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) for delivering precise answers based on the information you provide, with built-in tools for improving response quality.
• Built-in management tools to customize bot behavior and appearance, view feedback metrics, and manage operations, all from an intuitive user interface.
• Starter, Pro, and Enterprise plans for any use case to match your organization’s needs.
• Built with security and privacy first so your data stays in your control and is never used for secondary purposes.

For full details and to register early, visit the official Wisora website (Japanese).

At launch, Wisora will only be available for customers located in Japan. If you are located outside of Japan and are interested, please contact us.

Soracom MCP Server is a server that implements the Model Context Protocol (MCP). It acts as a gateway that allows AI tools to invoke Soracom APIs.

By using Soracom MCP Server, even if users are unfamiliar with Soracom API specifications, the AI intelligently interprets requests and automatically selects and invokes the appropriate API. Outputs can be presented visually in tables or graphs, and by simultaneously utilizing other MCP servers and web searches available to AI tools, the use cases for Soracom APIs expand significantly.

Soracom MCP Server is available as an NPM package and can be immediately used with MCP-compatible services such as Claude Desktop and Cursor.

For more details, see the blog post Making Soracom API Easier to Use! Announcing Soracom MCP Server (July 16, 2025) (Japanese).

Soracom MCP Server is currently in Early Access before its official release. The Soracom APIs available through Soracom MCP Server will be continuously expanded based on user feedback. We encourage you to try it out and share your thoughts and feature requests.

We are excited to announce a new batch processing feature to the Soracom User Console, making it easy to repeat actions for large numbers of SIMs, such as activation and tag management.

Previously, if you needed to update more than 100 SIMs, the most direct method was to write your own Python, NodeJS, shell, or other script using the Soracom API. While powerful, scripting takes time and effort to set up.

Now with the batch processing feature, you can simply upload a CSV file containing the SIMs and parameters you want to update, and perform bulk updates right from the User Console.

Key Features

• Supports large updates: Process up to 10,000 SIMs at once to save time on repetitive tasks.
• No code required: Prepare a CSV using a spreadsheet editor like Excel and upload it to the User Console.
• Flexible CSV handling: Select which columns to use directly in the User Console, reducing the need to manually modify CSV files.

For detailed instructions, refer to the Batch Processing documentation.

If you have any comments or suggestions, please feel free to share them with us here. We look forward to enhancing the capabilities of this new feature.

We've made it easier to manage SAM user permissions in your Soracom account with the introduction of Soracom Managed Roles.

Roles are a core access control feature that let administrators control user access to key functions like SIM management, ordering, billing and payment, and support. Setting up roles requires manually selecting the appropriate Soracom API permissions. However, determining which APIs to allow or deny can be difficult, which can often make configuring roles a confusing process.

Now, with Soracom Managed Roles, you can assign predefined roles which are maintained by Soracom, designed for common use cases.

Benefits of Soracom Managed Roles

• Simplified Setup: Quickly assign permissions to SAM users without worrying about which APIs to allow or deny.
• Automatic Updates: When new APIs are added, Soracom will update the roles so that they stay up to date.
• Customizable: Use roles as-is, combine them, or copy and modify them to fit your specific needs.

How to Use

From the account security screen, select a user, then click the Attach roles button and select from the list of Soracom Managed roles. You can also view a list of available Soracom Managed roles from the Roles tab.

Note that if a user is currently signed in, they must sign out and sign back in for the new role permission to take effect.

For additional details, refer to the Users and Roles documentation.

We are pleased to announce new real-time access features for Soracom Cloud Camera Services (SoraCam) which enables real-time viewing and control of SoraCam-compatible cameras.

Key Features

• View real-time still images: Capture video frames as still images from SoraCam-compatible cameras via Soracom API. For details, please refer to Retrieve live images (still images) (Japanese).
• View live streaming videos (Early access): View live videos from SoraCam-compatible cameras directly in the Soracom User Console.
• Control camera pan and tilt direction (Early access): Adjust ATOM Cam Swing camera direction directly from the Soracom User Console.

Note: For Early access features above, an application (Japanese) is required.

These features expand the possibilities for real-time monitoring and integration using SoraCam-compatible cameras. For more details, refer to real-time access (Japanese) documentation.

Real-Time Access Pricing

• A 990 yen/month fee per SoraCam-compatible camera applies when enabling real-time access. For details, refer to SoraCam Pricing (Japanese).
• If used in combination with Cloud Recording, fees for both services will apply.

For customers using Live Streaming Unlimited (Early access)

• Real-time access will be automatically enabled for any SoraCam-compatible cameras currently using the Live Streaming Unlimited (Early access) feature.
• The live streaming trial period (5 minutes) feature provided with Live Streaming Unlimited (Early access) will be discontinued on July 24, 2025. Customers will be able to use the live streaming video feature of real-time access instead.
• The live image capture API provided with Live Streaming Unlimited (Early access) will be discontinued on September 30, 2025. Customers should migrate to the real-time access Live Image Retrieval API (Japanese) instead.
• Billing line items for these services will change from soraCamDeviceAtomCamUnlimitedLiveStreamCharge to soraCamDeviceAtomCamRealTimeAccessCharge starting from August 2025.

If you have any questions, please contact Soracom Support.

Please note that SoraCam is currently only available for customers located in Japan. If you are located outside of Japan and are interested, please contact us.

We are excited to announce that Soracom Flux AI Actions now support sending video clips to AI models for analysis.

Previously, AI Actions only supported text or image-based input. With this update, you can now analyze video clips as part of your Flux app using these AI models:

• Amazon Bedrock - Amazon Nova Lite
• Amazon Bedrock - Amazon Nova Pro
• Google Gemini 2.5 Flash
• Google Gemini 2.5 Pro
• Google Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite
• Google Gemini 2.0 Flash

When sending a request to analyze a video clip, both a base number of credits for the request and an additional number of credits for video analysis are consumed as follows:

Model	Credits consumed per request
Amazon Nova Lite	3 (base request) + 18 (video analysis)
Amazon Nova Pro	30 (base request) + 231 (video analysis)
Gemini 2.5 Flash	17 (base request) + 79 (video analysis)
Gemini 2.5 Pro	67 (base request) + 329 (video analysis)
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite	3 (base request) + 20 (video analysis)
Gemini 2.0 Flash	4 (base request) + 27 (video analysis)

Refer to the Pricing & Fee Schedule for more details on credit consumption.

For more information on analyzing videos in your Flux apps, refer to the AI Actions documentation.