We are excited to announce our latest subscription plan US-MAX, designed to maximize network availability and data coverage across the three largest wireless networks in the United States: AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon.

US-MAX is delivered using an over-the-air Subscription Container, a feature of Soracom's plan01s IoT SIMs that allows users to add extra subscription plans in order to connect to more networks and countries, without needing to replace any SIMs.

US-MAX is available starting today for all customers, can be added to any existing plan01s SIM directly from the Soracom User Console, and will automatically activate as soon as your device turns on in the United States.

For pricing and more information, please visit the Soracom Plan US-MAX product page.

We are pleased to announce that a new SORACOM Air for Cellular plan-DU DU-100GB bundle is now available.

The DU-100GB bundle is a data plan that includes 100 GiB of upload and 3 GiB of download per SIM for a flat monthly fee.

Please see the plan-DU product page for more information on pricing and other details.

Getting Started with the plan-DU DU-100GB Bundle

You can start using the plan-DU DU-100GB bundle in the following ways:

Order a new plan-DU DU-100GB SIM

You can order a new plan-DU DU-100GB SIM from the SORACOM User Console or SORACOM IoT Store.

Change bundle data plan of an existing plan-DU SIM

If you already have a plan-DU DU-10GB or plan-DU DU-50GB SIM, you can change the bundled data plan to the new DU-100GB. Simply follow the instructions on the Data Usage: Changing Bundled Data Plans (Japanese) documentation to change your bundle.

Pricing Calculator, a tool for calculating estimated costs of services for Japan coverage, has been updated to support cost calculations for Soracom Cloud Camera Services Cellular Pack. In addition, the calculator now also provides a dark mode and display language switching.

Soracom Cloud Camera Services Cellular Pack

Dark Mode and Display Language Switching

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

We are pleased to announce that coverage for plan01s, planX3, and planP1 is now available in the following countries.

plan01s and plan01s - Low Data Volume

Gambia*, Guyana*, Malawi, Palestine, Papua New Guinea*, Rwanda, Suriname*, Uganda

* Coverage not available for plan01s - Low Data Volume.

planX3

Dominican Republic, Egypt, Guinea, Liechtenstein, Peru

planP1

Austria, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Canada, Chile, Cote d'Ivoire, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Gibraltar, Greece, Guernsey, Hungary, Ireland, Isle of Man, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tanzania, United Kingdom, United States

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 Binary Parser, a feature for Soracom Air devices that converts binary data into JSON, now supports Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR).

As a binary format, CBOR can reduce cellular data usage compared to sending data in JSON format. Once Binary Parser receives CBOR formatted data from your device, the binary is converted back to JSON and can be sent to Soracom Harvest for storage and data visualization, or to Soracom Beam, Funnel, or Funk in order to forward the data to a server or a cloud service.

To configure Binary Parser for CBOR, simply enter @cbor in the Binary Parser format setting.

For more information on how to use Binary Parser, please refer to the Binary Parser documentation.

Soracom provides a number of Soracom Air for Cellular IoT SIMs which include a data bundle each month. As a courtesy, Soracom will send a notification to the primary email address of your account when a SIM's data usage approaches the amount of bundled data. These notifications are automatically enabled for the following IoT SIM subscriptions:

• planX3 X3-5MB
• plan-D D-300MB
• plan-K2 K2-300MB

With this update, you can now disable these notifications in order to stop receiving data usage notification emails. To disable:

1. Login to your account using your root account email address and password.
2. Click your account menu, then select Email settings.
3. From the Configuration section, enable the Disable notifications for low remaining data usage on supported subscriptions option, then click Save.

Please note that this setting will disable data usage notifications for all of the IoT SIM subscriptions listed above. If you would like to re-enable notifications for specific SIMs, you can use the Event Handler feature with a SIM Monthly total traffic rule and Send email action to create a custom notification for a specific SIM or group of SIMs. Please refer to the Event Handler documentation for more information.

We are excited to announce the release of Soracom Lagoon 3. This release brings several new features to Lagoon, including variables, library panels, enhanced alerts, and enhanced permission management.

For reference, the current version of Soracom Lagoon will hereafter be referred to as Lagoon 2.

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Lagoon 3 features

Variables

When creating a panel, you can now set a variable for the data source. This allows you to use a single panel (or set of panels) for multiple devices and dynamically update the panel according to which device is selected. Read more about using variables (Japanese).

Library panels

If you use certain panels frequently, the library panel allows you to save and reuse them on multiple dashboards. Read more about using library panels (Japanese).

Enhanced alerts

Lagoon 3 provides additional configuration options for alerts:

• Calculations and aggregated data can now be used for alerts. For example, if your device collects temperature data from two separate sensors, you can configure a panel to calculate the difference between these two temperatures, and a corresponding alert to trigger when this difference exceeds a certain value. See an example of sending a notification when the difference between two temperatures exceeds 7°C (Japanese).
• A new mute timing option lets you specify quiet hours, such as to suppress alert notifications during evening hours or on weekends. See an example of configuring mute timings to prevent notifications on Saturdays and Sundays (Japanese).

Enhanced dashboard permissions

In addition to dashboard-level permissions, permissions can now also be set on folders, which will be inherited by the dashboards in the corresponding folder. Read more about managing folder permissions (Japanese).

Other differences between Lagoon 2 and Lagoon 3

Lagoon 3 has a number of other changes, such as the types of panels available. For more information, please refer to Differences between SORACOM Lagoon 2 and SORACOM Lagoon 3 (Japanese).

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Discontinuation of Lagoon 2

With this release, Lagoon 2 is now scheduled to be discontinued on May 31, 2024.

Additionally, as of April 18, 2023, users will not be able to use Lagoon 2 for new projects.

Current users of Lagoon 2 may continue to use Lagoon 2 during this time, however we recommend migrating to Lagoon 3 (below) before Lagoon 2 is discontinued in order to avoid unexpected interruption.

Migrating from Lagoon 2 to Lagoon 3

For current users of Lagoon 2, a copy of your Lagoon 2 data has been automatically migrated to Lagoon 3 as of April 17, 2023, 09:00 (UTC). Prior to the discontinuation of Lagoon 2, you may use both Lagoon 2 and Lagoon 3 in parallel. Please rest assured that during this period, you will not be double-charged for using both Lagoon 2 and Lagoon 3.

Please refer to the Migrating from Lagoon 2 to Lagoon 3 guide (Japanese) for additional details on data that was not included in the April 17 migration, and for instructions on how to manually migrate any changes you may have made in Lagoon 2 after this time.

Customers located in Japan can now change their Support Plan directly from the User Console.

To change Support Plans, click on the Support in the upper right corner of the User Console, and then select Support Plans.

For more details about available Support Plans and additional support services, please contact our Support team.

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 the Amazon SageMaker service when configuring an AWS Signature V4 header option. This option is available when using the Beam Website entry point or HTTP entry point.

When selected, Beam will add the appropriate authorization headers needed to send data to Amazon SageMaker for prediction.

For instructions on configuring Beam for use with Amazon SageMaker, please refer to the Sending data to Amazon SageMaker using IAM authentication guide (Japanese).

We are pleased to announce that Euro billing can now be selected when creating a new Soracom account. When selected, all service fees will be calculated in Euros, and payments will also be processed in Euros.

This option is available for customers who are located in the European Union or in the United Kingdom.

Notes

• The billing currency setting is applied on a per-account basis. Choosing multiple currencies for the same account is not supported.
• Once configured, the billing currency cannot be changed.