Connectivity Diagnostics is a tool that allows you to easily investigate the connection status of your SIMs.

Prior to this update, to check diagnostics for different SIMs, you had to return to the SIM Management page of the User Console in order to run diagnostics for each SIM.

With this update, you can now quickly diagnose another SIM by searching its name, IMSI, or SIM ID, without going back to the SIM Management page:

For more information about Connectivity Diagnostics, please refer to the documentation.

SORACOM Harvest is a data collection and storage service that allows you to easily capture and save data from devices without the need to set up and configure servers or other cloud services.

Soracom is pleased to announce updates to the Harvest Data interface on the SORACOM User Console, to help make accessing and visualizing data more intuitive.

Improved Layout

The Harvest Data interface layout has been improved to make accessing the following features easier:

• Showing or hiding individual data series in graphs
• Displaying detailed data when clicking on a data point in a graph or map
• Specifying which data properties should be used for latitude and longitude when displaying data on a map
• Automatically refreshing to check for new data
• Enabling or disabling the Extended Data Retention Option

Easier Searching

The Harvest Data interface now provides quick shortcuts for specifying a time range for the shown data, such as "Last 1 hour," "Last 7 days," or "All Time."

When changing the time range, the User Console will now also dynamically update the URL to match the specified time range. You can use this to save a link and easily return to the same view later.

• Relative and Absolute Times

  Please note that when selecting a Relative Time range such as "Last 7 days," the URL will only include the relative time range. As a result, when accessing the URL later, the time range shown in Harvest Data will be updated relative to the current time.

  If you want to save a URL in order to return to the same time range later, specify an Absolute Time range instead.

When using SORACOM Funnel to send data from a device to a cloud service, Funnel will now preserve decimal value notation when the fractional part of a decimal value contains all 0s.

For example, when a device sends data {"temperature": 20.0}, Funnel previously converted the value to an integer and sent the data as {"temperature": 20}. Now, Funnel will send the data as {"temperature": 20.0} without converting the value to an integer.

Note that if the value contains more than one trailing 0 in the fractional part of the decimal, only the first 0 will be preserved. For example, if a device sends data {"temperature": 20.00}, Funnel will send the data as {"temperature": 20.0} to the cloud service.

Please be aware that if your cloud service is configured to check the presence or absence of a decimal point . in order to determine the data type (decimal or integer), this change will affect the behavior of the cloud service.

The search functionality in the SIM Management screen of the User Console has been improved. In addition to searching by SIM name, tag, and group, you can also filter search results by SIM status, the type of subscription, and even the type of module, all from a single search interface.

SORACOM Lagoon, a customizable dashboard service that allows you to create powerful data visualizations and share them with third parties, now supports creating pie chart visualizations and reduce transforms. Both of these features are currently available as a beta, and specifications are subject to change without notice.

Pie Chart (Beta)

You can now create pie chart to visualize percentages of data.

For example, when combined with an Expression function, you can visualize the percentage of sensors from a fleet of CO2 monitoring sensors that exceed CO2 concentrations of 1000 ppm.

Reduce Transform (Beta)

You can now add a Reduce transform to an Expression function, which will allow you to calculate the minimum (Min), maximum (Max), average (Mean), total (Sum), or count (Count) of a data set.

For example, by adding a Reduce transform to temperature data, you can quickly calculate average (Mean) temperature from a specific time period. Then, by further combining it with a Math Expression, you can create a graph that visualizes the temperature difference relative to the average temperature calculated from the transform.