Updates from Teltonika and Sentry, and we also have new features on Connect
Teltonika
Over-The-Air (OTA) firmware updates are now available on most Teltonika devices.
We also updated our agent to use the "automatic reconnect" feature available in the Paho library instead of monitoring and managing connectivity in our agent code. Large parts of the effort are to consolidate our agent code across the multiple Teltonika hardware platforms.
Automatic SIM switch feature. This feature can operate in three separate regimes.
- SIMs switch periodically, i.e. once every 23 hours,
- SIMs switch at a particular time each day, i.e. Switches at 07:30 each morning.
- No automatic SIM switching, but it can be done remotely via a command from Connect.
Everything previously stated can be configured and set remotely.
Sentry
Trinity implemented a crash-analytics tool called Sentry via a 3rd party system. This allowed us to do forensic stack traces - essentially to more easily trace failures in the code. This simply makes Tandem more reliable and stable.
New Connect Features:
- Commands are now recorded and can be sent again - these are known as stored commands.
- Users can now define a Command model. A command model acts as a contract between the platform and the device and encapsulates the commands (and their parameters) that the device will accept. This greatly assists a user to be able to issue valid commands to the device.
- Commands can now be predefined, stored, and scheduled for later delivery. Stored commands are primarily used to issue identical commands to a range of devices in bulk. If a user chooses to send a stored command instantaneously, all devices will receive the command simultaneously. Alternatively, a user can schedule the command to be delivered to the devices at some time in the future and track the progress of scheduled command campaigns directly from Connect's User Interface.
- Bulk device uploads landed and work the same as for SIMs: A Google spreadsheet of information is read-in, and the devices are created accordingly.
- Device reports landed. For now, these are:
- Device list report, which lists devices, some of their meta-data as well as their associated SIMs
- Device's latest data report that reports the latest lensed or focussed data reported by a set of devices.