New Features for Industrial Edge Hub and more

New Features

Industrial Edge Hub

Mandatory ecosystem agreement acceptance for Hub-to-Hub transferred appsIn order to accept the transferred application, user must first accept the ecosystem agreement by Industrial Edge and T&Cs by the app provider. By clicking on the signature icon, ecosystem agreement and the T&Cs can be downloaded and accepted. If there is no T&Cs by the app provider, user just has to accept the ecosystem agreement by Industrial Edge.

Industrial Edge State Service v3.2.0 for IEM (running on K8s Helm)

Storage Size Configuration

• The underlying storage size of the IE State Service can be individually configured upon the first setup of the Industrial Edge Management.
• If more storage size for Edge Device backups is required over time, the capacity can be increased accordingly.
  Metrics Monitoring
• The monitoring service enables metrics tracking for detailed information like the configured and used storage size​.
• The metrics can be integrated in monitoring and visualization solutions (e.g. Prometheus or Grafana)
  Display of App Volume Scope in UI
• The extension of the app volume scope was introduced with the last release (#24 in April 2023).
• Now, it is possible to distinguish the app volume scope within the backup content: Backups including the extension of the app volume scope can be indicated by the addition (Extended).
  CPU Architecture of Edge Device
• The underlying CPU architecture is now part of the backup.
• Before a restore, the CPU architecture of the source device and the destination device is checked to be identical.

Industrial Edge Identity and Access Management v1.2.0

Device Owner role

• Full access to all devices in IEM.
• Access to all Admin groups for devices.
  Unified UI experience
• OSBar integration
• iX design

IECTL v2.3.6 App Publisher CLI v1.11.4 UIv1.11.5

ARM-64 Support

• You can now create arm-64 applications with the App Publisher and IECTL

Industrial Edge Management App v.1.13.10 included in Helm Chart v1.3.x for IEM

Arm-64 support in IEM App

• Create an application version for arm64 architecture.​
• Copy an arm 64 application to the IEM < IEHub.
• Platform information available in detailed view of application.​
• Arm64 apps can be deployed on supported arm64 devices​.
• Platform Information available in detailed view of application​.
  Open Shift support to IEM V2
• IEM app containers can be provisioned on Open-Shift cluster.
• IEM app containers run into unprivileged mode.
• Default storage of OpenShift cluster can be used​.

Industrial Edge Device Catalog v1.13.2

Update on Device Type CPU Arch Notation

• "amd64" notation has been replaced with "x86-64" notation for existing device types. To continue work with latest IEM App properly, please make sure that IE Device Catalog is also updated.

Industrial Edge Device Type Generator v1.2.1

Update on Device Type CPU architecture

• "amd64" notation has been replaced with "x86-64" notation in UI​.

Industrial Edge Device Kit v1.14.1

OIDC public APIs are available now

• Version v1 is available for OIDC public APIs .

Industrial Edge Management Cloud

• Cybersecurity become more and more important which causes lot of OEMs to get in touch and deal with it beside the original domain.
• Web services has to be provided publicly available to stay connected to customers(e.g. onboarded devices distributed crossing countries).
• Setup a system for device and application management within minutes without any additional configuration.
• Security best practices are applied to the infrastructure level.
• Automatic Updates as well as security fix are automatically applied.​
• Customer can focus on their business domain without learning operation of complex IT systems​.
• DevOps approach guarantees more stable operation environments, faster and better delivery & bug fixing.
• Operation of IE devices distributed around the world.

Public API V1.5.0

Publishing new APIs

• Project Management
• App Management
• App Monitoring
• Device/App log download

Flow Creator Configuratior v1.4.

• From the IEM you can now use the Flow Creator Configurator to upload a Node file and install it into multiple Flow Creator instances running on IEDs which saves effort and time to configure Flow Creator instance at each IED.
• App is now renamed to "Flow Creator Configurator".​
• User Documentation has been refined.​

Flow Creator v1.13.0

• No Login or managing users is needed now at the Flow Creator App level. Login and User management pages are removed , Admin and Co-admin users of the IED will have read/write permissions for App Deployments.
• Supports the Configurator with the new node installer feature and sending events to the configurator.​
• App is now renamed to "Flow Creator".​
• End User Document has been refined.​

Data Flow Monitoring v3.0.0

Description

• Data Flow Monitoring provides a holistic view of the IE Apps and interconnectivity among them.
• Data Flow Monitoring will help you understand the data flow in your IED.
  New Features and Improvements
• With the new Live-view monitoring feature users can now be able to view the movement of data in real time across different applications installed in the IED in the already existing Data Flow Monitoring UI
• New UI component to activate the Live-view of a particular application.
• Improved UX to enhance the User's experience making it more intuitive to use

DataXess v1.2.0

• Databus Configurator allows user to enable historizing the payload data on topic level.
• Databus will maintain the history of topics in IED disk space also.​
• Databus now allows user to configure the storage mode (either circular buffer or IED disk space) on need basis.​
• Databus can now also be configured using APIs on IED.​

Edge OPC UA Server v2.1.0​

• User defined Node set configuration and mapping will be much easier and faster with the list of matching and compatible data types.