Releases

Release August 12th (2017-08-12)

New

• Amtech IoT demo webpage
• New websocket endpoint that allow consuming messages from multiple topics at the same time. The list of topics can be dynamically modified by sending control messages through the same websocket communication.
• Master/slave architecture now supported among bridges in a M2mBridge's network by using Digi mesh network technology.
• Thing types for m2mBridge plugins
  • BLEBluvisionBeeksScanner scanner to handle Beeks beacon encoding
  • waspmoteBLECentral plugin for Libellium BLE sensors
  • Trilaterator
• Enforce type publication for publishing Activity (on validations for publishing)

Enhancements

• Clicking on marker clusters in a map show all the resources opened
• DAP insertion accepts now location fields with only wkt besides the expected stringified json format {\“wkt\”:\”...\”}
• Crud observations on location fields are not anymore sent when the format changes (from wkt to location json) or some spaces are added or removed

Bug fixes

• Target thing field on observations are correctly validated now in the UI
• Observers using observations’ target thing return nothing when the received observation does not include the observed thing type
• Fields of type json allows now bindings in actions
• Json editor did not work for some jsonschema
• Error parsing wkts with scientific notation (e.g. 1e-10)

Release May 29th (2017-05-29)

New

• Service to export spatial query results to an image or pdf document. Details

Enhancements

• Added endpoint to retrieve the center of a resource location
• Bridges have now a collection of reasoners on the edge
• Actors names under tenant (allow same actor name to be used by different tenants)
• Floorplan images can now be exported/imported

Changes

• The floorplan calibration allows now to use not only rectangles but also parallelograms
• The timeline is only computed and updated when the user says so by using corresponding floating menu button or timeline refresh button
• Search for name and description based on whole words (temporary)
• Observers: closest resource constraints can not be used with multiple thing types

Bug fixes

• isEmbedded is not any more in supported property metadata for primitive types.
• Solved issue with the autogenerated name for some objects like observations and the new constraints for this field
• Better alignment among versions from kafka and storm components
• Moved to new storm-kafka-client external library that leverage the new kafka consumer's API
• CRUD observations for followers and impersonator inside activity execution

Release Feb (2017-02)

Enhancements

• Performance improvement in topology queries and UI queries (things collections, things inside collection, specific thing, notifications)

Changes

• Do not allow update of regExp or validationSchema on published properties
• Removed property destination (edge/cloud) from observation production config
• Removed aggregation properties from bridge

Release December 2nd (2016-12-02)

Enhancements

• Added endpoint for EPC Tags encoding/decoding.
• Shared observers can only be edited by owner tenant.
• Better error message when the tenant had not access to a resource
• BLETISensorTagScanner new logic to tiSensorTagReadFrequency supported property; if it set the tag can be discover and tematics read with the specified frequency.
• Added support for thread-independent transactions in DB Manager.

Kafka upgraded to version 0.10.1.0. Changes

• The symbol # can not be used on any resource name.
• It is not possible anymore to have a thing type and an observation type with the same name.
• Date data edition allows now to navigate by year and months.

Bug fixes

• Observers did not handle correctly the resource types with underscores (“_”).
• Date fields made crash reasoner editor.
• Date constraint default values were inverted.
• Reasoner menu did not show all the fields when there were too many
• Create thing action failed when the entity type defined a field of type collection
• Removing supported properties named value from thing types or observation types made some data inconsistent.
• Solved issue with the retrieval of allegedly non-existent objects in the database when REST internal calls were present in the middle of an active transaction by using thread-independent transactions for the retrieving action.
• Several issues solved regarding actions that create things with embedded content (things or collections of things).

New

• BLEServicesReader generic bluetooth services and characteristics reader
• ModbusDevice implements the possibility of sending commands to a device through the modbus protocol (set a register or a group of registers).

Release October 11th (2016-10-11)

Enhancements

• Added the possibility to create supported properties to hold thing types and collection of thing types
• Added aggregation to M2MBridge bridges in a local area network, to achieve the configuration of this functionality, the following supported properties has been added to the amtechM2MBridge thing type
  • m2mbridgeAgregationInstances The list of instances that will act as aggregators, only one aggregator by Thing type is allowed on a local area network.
  • m2mbridgeAggregationTypes The list of things types that will act as source for aggregation.
• Validation of M2MBridge instance
• Validation of M2MBridge network
• Enhancement in data representation for topics, and its navigation in UI
• Enhancement in M2MBridge observation production configuration graphical navigation
• Enhancement in Activity resources configuration graphical navigation
• Bridge software can be downloaded by the creators from the platform (inside Sensor Network menu)
• Values are validated when setting literal values to actions in the reasoner editor except for json validation schemas
• Added terraformer and geolib libraries to the json editor on reasoner

Changes

• Resources with supported properties that were added or removed from their metadata appear as dirty (to be saved) in the editor and a message is shown
• Security changes
  • Actors in follower admin are automatically refreshed according to the services they are subscribed to. (requires only publication of the activity with new actors, and follower sign in)
• Supported properties holding links to entities can now be forced to use current tenant constraint by setting to true the property forceTenantConstraint in its semantic
• Add json schema as supported property validator
• Observation production configuration was moved from Activity to M2MBridge
• Activity configuration keep CRUD producer thing types configuration
• Target topics for CRUD observations are defined by name convention (they can not be customized anymore )

Semantic changes

• Removed thing types iBeacon and EddystoneBeacon, use BLEBeaconScanner instead
• Changes to amtechM2mBridge thing type
  • Added fields m2mbridgeAgregationInstances, m2mbridgeAggregationTypes to handle aggregations (see enhancements above).
  • Added fields bridgestartedobservationconfig,bridgestoppedobservationconfig, bridgeerrorobservationconfig for bridge observation configuration
  • Added fields observationproduction for observation production configuration (formerly a field of Activities)
• Changes in Activities
  • Remove field observationproductionconfig which is now on amtechM2mBridge
  • Added field crudobservationproducers to hold the crud producer thing types.
• Thing instances
  • Removed field activityForObsProduction
• Support for new Edge Thing Types
  • ArduinoSerial
  • BLEODB2Scanner
  • LibeliumMeshlium
  • OPCUADevice
  • BLETISensorTagScanner

Bug fixes

• Automatic follower username depended on the login letter case.
• Roles were not correctly filtered when editing team member roles
• Invited followers acquired all actors when owner subscribed to a service
• Thing collections can not be deleted from the UI anymore
• Followers have access control filter unchecked (and hidden) for thing collections in selection dialogs
• Navigator breadcrumb lost root url when deleting a supported property from inside
• Observation Guest tenants and guest users can now be added to thing instances inside the update actions

Core technology update

• Titan 1.0
• TinkerPop 3.1
• Java 8
• Kafka 0.10.01
• Storm 1.0.2
• Cassandra 2.0.17
• Elasticsearch 1.5.2

Release June 13th ( 2016-06-13 )

Enhancement

• Validating an activity updates publish button without refreshing
• Validation bridge observation configuration at follower UE
• New Observation production configuration view at Activity Tree View
• Activity graphical browser
• Navigation will ask for confirmation regarding unsaved changes for observers, reasoners and tree editor.
• Invited followers can not see the services anymore
• <Enter> on pagesize input text send the refresh action
• Click on access control filter will refresh the editor

Bug fixes

• JsonLd button did not show from inside of thing and observation types
• Issues in spatial closestResource constraint with rectangles
• Fix update guest tenant for services in service screen
• Change observation production configuration to validate that crud topics have no placeholders
• Fix crud observations sent to new topics
• Send observation from reasoners
• Access control filter now works on selection dialogs

Troubleshooting

• Redeploy activities sending observations

Release May 27th ( 2016-05-27 )

Changes

• Multiple access control changes, enforcing actors in follower for validations of observation production
• Changes in observation production configuration
  • Multiple bridge instances allowed
  • Things include the reference to the specific observation production configuration they use
• Changes in access control for Topics. Topics are public and access control is enforced on observations

Semantic changes

• New Thing Types : GPIOPinRaspberryPi and GPIORaspberryPi
• New Observation Types : gpioRaspberryPiPinRead and gpioRaspberryPiPinWrite
• Removed Observation Types : snmpError and snmpTrap

Enhancements

• An M2MBridge can be configured without the need of reasoners
• Spatial fields on observer constraints activate now the “save” button on input
• Access control filter is now on the editor bar for more visibility. Default value logic was improved for better user experience.
• Invitations can be handled (deleted, resent) from Invite window.
• The followers can see the actors assigned to them for the current tenant in their profile
• Creators can edit their topics and create new ones.
• The UI for followers is now similar to that for creators.
• Followers can create and send observations from the simulator page
• Actions on resources ( publish, delete, send, ... ) can be done now also from the resource itself
• Added help link (to the related topic in AmTech wiki) to some selection windows
• An activity can be published without reasoners when it has observation production configuration set
• Floating menu is now at the top of the window

Bug fixes

• Error in timeline when set fields to view but no field to group by
• Aggregation fields work accept now several constraints on the same fields and constraints involving several aggregation fields
• Issues on spatial constraints: intersect and closest resources
• Changes on observer constraints were not taken into account in some cases
• Use of IsRequired constraint on observation fields made observers impossible to save.
• Simple search works now also on selection dialogs

Known issues

• Observations sent by reasoners with action "Send Obsevation". Those observations not being delivered properly

Troubleshooting

In order to solve son compatibility issues, all creators must perform the following actions on their data :

• Publish activity
• Update guest tenants in things that have that property with a value

Release Feb 23rd ( 2018-02-23 )

Migration to MongoDB backend

New

• Allow followers to export/import things
• Allow publishing multiple types at once
• Support observers execution with parameters via direct requests to the DAP API

Bug Fixes

• Fixed logout error after changing password
  

Enhancements

• Required and published properties can be removed if no instances exist