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Release 4.10

February 2023 - (Release 4.10)

Whats New In Our Products ?

Our latest product release cycle prioritized stability and strengthening of our products, building upon the innovative features we recently introduced.

This cycle also includes several important new features that will become standard across our entire product line in future releases.

  • New Asset-centric Table in Kelvin Maps with features including;
  • Schedule mode added
  • Configuration panel to customize all table aspects (column configuration, visibility and position)
  • Full column customization by resource (Asset Metric, Asset Property and Alarm statistics)
  • Asset Metrics can be configured by aggregation functions and time range
  • Alarms statistics can be configured by severity and status
  • Asset properties can be configured by asset property name
  • Full column sorting, resizing, fixation and reordering functionality.
  • New Asset Insights API implementation using Asset Properties, Metrics and Alarm Statistics
  • Improvements to Rules API including;
  • Schedule mode added
  • Testing added to code generation and rule drafting
  • Script validation
  • Added health checks for some missing APIs
  • Added CRUD (Create, Read, Update, and Delete) endpoints for failure detection
  • In Kelvin Apps, removed the global key in the app.yaml file, so now assets can be globally configured using just the assets key
  • Removed unused fields in the workload list API
  • Streamlined and optimized Control Change API through refactoring for improved performance and maintainability.
  • And as usual a number of minor improvements and bug fixes throughout the platform

Whats New in our Documentation ?

  • Added a new Getting Started Guide on Kelvin Maps to give an overview of the features available.
  • Enhancements to Kelvin Maps Data Explorer Y Axis zoom
  • Kelvin Rules Simple Expression and Advance Expression has now been merged into one Node called Conditional Expression.
  • Kelvin Asset Details page has been improved for adding Processes.
  • Getting Started Guide and Documentation on the new Asset-centric table structure, giving powerful customization tools for users.
  • New Getting Started Guides section for common components found in many screens. Asset-centric and Data Explorer GSG guides created under this new section.
  • New Tutorial learning how to make complex formula in Kelvin Rules in Kelvin Maps.
  • New Tutorial showing how to create and link 3D and 2D models to Kelvin Asset view in Kelvin Maps Process.
  • SSO option for Kelvin SDK
  • Other minor updates and improvements

Upgraded Kelvin API Documentation

All API requests listed here have gone through a rigorous upgrade to its documentation on the API description, parameter details, defaults, options and warnings.

  • New API requests incorporated into the reference guide and available swagger files.

New Documentation Pages

  • Getting Started Guides -> GSG Kelvin Maps -> GSG Kelvin Maps Overview page created
  • Getting Started Guides -> GSG Common Features -> GSG Asset-centric Tables page created
  • Getting Started Guides -> GSG Common Features -> GSG Data Explorer page created

Updated Documentation Pages

  • Kelvin Overview -> Overview page updated
  • Kelvin Overview -> Recommended Reading page updated
  • Getting Started Guides -> GSG Working with Dev, Test & Prod Instances page updated
  • Getting Started Guides -> Cloud Server -> GSG Kelvin SDK page updated
  • Getting Started Guides -> GSG Kelvin Maps -> GSG Create Enterprise Hierarchy page updated
  • Getting Started Guides -> GSG Kelvin Maps -> GSG Create Kelvin Maps Process page updated
  • Getting Started Guides -> GSG Kelvin Maps -> GSG Assets Control page updated
  • Documentation -> Cloud Server -> Kelvin API -> Kelvin API Categories -> Data Labels page updated
  • Documentation -> Cloud Server -> Kelvin SDK -> SDK Authentication page updated
  • Documentation -> Kelvin Maps -> Kelvin Maps Overview page updated
  • Documentation -> Kelvin Maps -> Kelvin Maps Dashboard page updated
  • Documentation -> Kelvin Maps -> Kelvin Maps Process View page updated
  • Documentation -> Kelvin Maps -> Kelvin Maps Asset Details page updated
  • Documentation -> Kelvin Maps -> Kelvin Maps Editors -> Kelvin Maps Rules Editor page updated

New Tutorials

  • Kelvin Tutorials -> Kelvin Maps Tutorials -> Use Kelvin Rules as Flow Rate Calculator tutorial created
  • Kelvin Tutorials -> Kelvin Maps Tutorials -> Create 3D View for Kelvin Maps tutorial created
  • Kelvin Tutorials -> Kelvin Developer Tips -> Bash Script to Clean Docker after Building Kelvin Apps tutorial created

Updated Tutorials

  • Kelvin Tutorials -> Foundational Tutorials -> From Scratch to MQTT Data Inflow tutorial updated
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Retired Changelog Stream

Documentation Changelog is now integrated with the Platform Changelog and renamed to just Kelvin Changelog.

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Retired Changelog Stream

Platform Changelog is now integrated with the Documentation Changelog and renamed to just Kelvin Changelog.

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Release 4.9

January 2023 - (Release 4.9)

Whats New ?

  • New documentation on some guides to secure the Ubuntu operating system where you install Kelvin Nodes.
  • New full documentation on Kelvin Administration
  • The new Edge Sync service on the Kelvin Nodes improves performance during unreliable Internet connections allowing data to be buffered on the Node for up to 1 year or 5 GB whichever comes first (5 GB equals approximately 10 million messages).
  • Easily analyze Alarms quickly with the new See on Data Explorer button which takes you directly to the time when the alarm was activated.
  • Created new section called Kelvin Developer Tips which will contain a range of useful guides for developers.
  • Tutorial on how to force Kelvin Node core application updates. This is important to ensure all security updates are performed and the new features are deployed. This does not affect any Kelvin Apps deployed to the Kelvin Node.

Upgraded Kelvin API Documentation

All API requests listed here have gone through a rigorous upgrade to its documentation on the API description, parameter details, defaults, options and warnings.

  • All Assets API checked for completeness of documentation. API documentation updates on - Upload Assets, List Failure Overview, List Asset and Create Asset Template.
  • All Metrics API checked for completeness of documentation.
  • All Bridge API checked for completeness of documentation.
  • All Control Change API checked for completeness of documentation. New API documentation for Get Control Change Clustering.
  • All Data Labels API checked for completeness of documentation. API documentation updates on - List Label Metadata.
  • All Storage API checked for completeness of documentation. API documentation updates on - Upload Historian Metrics

New Documentation Pages

  • Getting Started Guides -> GSG Cloud Server -> GSG Securing Kelvin Nodes page created
  • Documentation -> Cloud Server -> Kelvin SDK -> SDK Clients -> Javascript -> Kelvin SDK (Javascript) page created
  • Documentation -> Kelvin Administration -> Administration Overview page created
  • Documentation -> Kelvin Administration -> Administration of Users page created
  • Documentation -> Kelvin Administration -> List of Kelvin Roles page created
  • Documentation -> Kelvin Administration -> User's Account Settings page created

Updated Documentation Pages

  • Kelvin Overview -> Cloud Server -> Kelvin Nodes page updated
  • Kelvin Overview -> Kelvin Maps -> Kelvin Maps Overview page updated
  • Getting Started Guides -> GSG Kelvin Documentation page updated
  • Getting Started Guides -> GSG Cloud Server -> GSG Kelvin Nodes page updated
  • Documentation -> Cloud Server -> Kelvin Manager UI -> Management -> Metrics -> Metrics page updated
  • Documentation -> Cloud Server -> Kelvin Manager UI -> Connection -> Nodes page updated
  • Documentation -> Cloud Server -> Kelvin SDK -> SDK Clients -> Javascript -> AngularJS page updated
  • Documentation -> Cloud Servers -> Kelvin SDK -> SDK Clients -> Python -> Kelvin SDK (Python) page updated
  • Documentation -> Kelvin Maps -> Kelvin Maps Dashboard page updated
  • Documentation -> Kelvin Maps -> Kelvin Maps Asset Details page updated
  • Documentation -> Kelvin Maps -> Kelvin Maps Alarms page updated
  • Documentation -> Kelvin Maps -> Kelvin Map Editors -> Kelvin Maps Rules Editor page update

New Tutorials

  • New tutorials for Kelvin Tutorials -> Cloud Server Tutorials -> Getting Started Tutorials -> Browser Alert Bar for Multi-Platform Environments
  • New tutorials for Kelvin Tutorials -> Cloud Server Tutorials -> Kelvin API Tutorials -> Managing Kelvin Node Versions with Kelvin API
  • New Developer Tip Kelvin SDK - CLI Autocomplete
  • New Developer Tip Kelvin SDK - CLI Environment Variables

Updated Tutorials

  • Minor update for written tutorial Install Kelvin SDK in Windows (Written)
  • Minor update for written tutorial Install Kelvin SDK in MacOS X Catalina (Written)
  • Minor update for written tutorial Install Kelvin SDK in Ubuntu 20.04 (Written)
  • Updated written tutorial for Install and Setup Postman for API Requests (Written)

Tested Tutorials

  • Tested tutorial Install and Setup Postman for API Requests (Written)
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Release 4.8

November 2022 - (Release 4.8)

Whats New ?

  • Kelvin API Data Label detailed documentation update
  • Updated and tested all the documentation on the Kelvin SDK Clients - Command Line / Terminal, Javascript, Python.
  • Kelvin Maps improvements in the Process and Rules sections
  • Multi-Instance tools guides added
  • Added hover-over information for glossary terms to all pages
  • Major update to Changelog structure and converted to blog format for easy RSS (future feature) connections.
  • Tutorial Descriptions page improvements on layout and information

Upgraded Kelvin API Documentation

All API requests listed here have gone through a rigorous upgrade to its documentation on the API description, parameter details, defaults, options and warnings.

  • Data Label API

Get Data Labels Clustering, Create Data Label, Filter Data Label, Create Label, List Label, Create Label Metadata Bulk, Delete Label Metadata Bulk, Delete Label, Get Label, Create Label Metadata, List Label Metadata, Delete Label Metadata, Get Label Metadata, Update Label Metadata, Update Label, Get Data Label Last, List Data Label, Get Data Label Range, Delete Data Label, Get Data Label, Update Data Label

New Documentation Pages

  • Getting Started Guides -> GSG Working with Dev, Test & Prod Instances page created
  • Documentation -> Cloud Server -> Kelvin API Categories -> Data Labels page created
  • Documentation -> Cloud Server -> Kelvin API Categories -> Labels page created
  • Documentation -> Kelvin SDK -> SDK Clients -> Javascript -> Node.js page created
  • Documentation -> Kelvin SDK -> SDK Clients -> Javascript -> Vue page created
  • Documentation -> Kelvin SDK -> SDK Clients -> Javascript -> React page created
  • Documentation -> Kelvin SDK -> SDK Clients -> Javascript -> Angular page created

Updated Documentation Pages

  • Kelvin Overview -> Recommended Reading page updated
  • Getting Started Guides -> Getting Started Guide Overview page updated
  • Getting Started Guide -> GSG Guide by Profession page updated
  • Getting Started Guide -> GSG Kelvin Documentation page updated
  • Getting Started Guides -> GSG Cloud Server -> GSG Kelvin Manager UI page updated
  • Getting Started Guides -> GSG Cloud Server -> GSG Kelvin SDK page updated
  • Kelvin Overview -> Cloud Server -> Kelvin Nodes page updated
  • Documentation -> Kelvin Maps -> Kelvin Maps Dashboard page updated
  • Documentation -> Kelvin Maps -> Kelvin Maps Asset Details page updated
  • Documentation -> Kelvin Maps -> Kelvin Maps Rules Editor page updated

Updated Tutorials

  • Kelvin Tutorials -> Cloud Server Tutorials -> Kelvin API Tutorials -> Create a New Control Change Request API page updated
  • Kelvin Tutorials -> Cloud Server Tutorials -> Kelvin API Tutorials -> Create and Monitor a Control Change with Kelvin API page updated
  • Kelvin Tutorials -> Cloud Server Tutorials -> Foundational Tutorials -> From Scratch to MQTT Data Inflow (Written) ≧ 4.3.0 page updated
  • Kelvin Tutorials -> Cloud Server Tutorials -> Kelvin Bridges -> Creating an OPC UA Bridge (Video) ≥ 4.0 page updated
  • Kelvin Tutorials -> Cloud Server Tutorials -> Kelvin Bridges -> Create a Modbus Bridge page updated
  • Kelvin Tutorials -> Cloud Server Tutorials -> Machine Learning Tutorials -> Real Time Edge Computer Vision to Kelvin Metrics page updated
  • Kelvin Tutorials -> Kelvin Maps Tutorials -> Create a Kelvin Maps Process and Control an Air Conditioner page updated

Tested Tutorials

  • Kelvin Tutorials -> Kelvin Bridges -> Creating an OPC UA Bridge (Video) ≥ 4.0 was tested with some notes added for the minor differences between v4.0 and v4.8.