Version 2.2.20
New Features
Add-on: Data Collection and Aggregation Service (DCAS) and the ubisys Dashboard
We are glad and proud to share the outcome of extensive R&D efforts undertaken over the past 24 months. Introducing the ubisys Data Collection and Aggregation Service (DCAS) and the ubisys Dashboard built on top of it. This is a great new user experience for data visualization built on latest technologies sporting a fresh, modern and responsive web user interface. This dashboard provides unparalleled insights into your IoT deployments, while maintaining ultimate data privacy: All the gathered data remains on your gateway, within your premises.
Featuring a modular architecture, DCAS gathers sensor and actuator data, which flows in from the Zigbee network via the on-board Smart Facility Service, processes it and feeds it into a database hosted locally on your ubisys G1. This data is then accessible in real-time via latest web technologies. We have put a lot of engineering passion into the data processing engine to make it efficient and scalable. It supports collecting various physical entities like energy consumption as aggregates and breakdowns per zone/room and per device; temperature; humidity; illuminance; occupancy; HVAC heating and cooling demands; battery levels; lamp burn hours; and lamp failures. More data points like smoke detector status, CO and CO2 levels will be added soon – stay tuned. Works with all Zigbee devices, which expose these data points, including eco-friendly and maintenance-free Green Power devices. The data is meaningfully arranged and presented in various interactive chart types including time-series, bar charts, box plots and sunburst diagrams. The Dashboard gives you an immediate overview at first glance and the ability to drill-down on data from particular devices. Coarse timescale selection: Last hour, last 24 hours, last 7 days, last month, last year.
Within a particular time scale, an interactive time slider allows setting fine-grained time windows that will directly affect calculations and charts in real-time. The ubisys Dashboard is a complete solution with no extra configuration resulting in an amazing out-of-the-box experience. Being an add-on component, the dashboard and DCAS remain inactive until activated by entering a license code. Contact ubisys sales to purchase commercial licenses or request a trial license to start evaluating and assessing the added value provided by this new solution. B2B OEM customers may also license the DCAS service for integration with proprietary cloud services and other third-party solutions. Support for heat-maps is available on a per-project basis – reach out if you have such needs. Expect much more to come: Automated test scheduling and reporting, alarm notifications, user-configurable floorplans with heat-mapping, and so much more! Let us know about your use cases, and we will consider them for upcoming releases.
Maintenance
- Zigbee Adapter firmware updated to version 1.9.2, built on ubisys Compact7B™ Zigbee stack 2.0.13. Please refer to the ubisys U1 change log for more details of what changed in this version.
- Roll-up of shared stack libraries in Facility Service. Now based on Compact7B™ release 2.0.13
Enhancements
- Introduced m7bdump internal diagnostics tool
- The JavaScript automation engine now supports device look-up for Green Power devices based on their 32-bit device identifier. This allows using Green Power sensors, for example the Philips LCN3110/05 occupancy and illuminance sensor, in automations
Improvements
- Increased reliability of Persistent Storage maintained in the Facility Service (using POSIX file APIs)
- Take into account potential address changes due to address conflicts during service discovery
Behavioral Changes
- When commissioned via BLE onto an existing network via the Philips Field App MC, auto-discovery of devices and services on the MasterConnect network is no longer inhibited. Previously, users of such systems would have to manually trigger device and service discovery via the ubisys iOS or Android app or third party applications. This reinstates the normal behavior of the gateway when it is added to an existing network
Bug-fixes
- Identified and resolved a number of issues in the JavaScript automation engine, which would result in particular automations halting unexpectedly or the entire JavaScript engine freezing or otherwise malfunctioning
- Some ZCL strings need to be escaped for XML compliance such that the Facility Service inventory remains valid XML
- Other fixes, including invalid pointer access
