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Release Notes

February 2023

Lifecycle

General bug fixes and stability improvements

Cloud & Gateway

General bug fixes and security and stability improvements

Insights

General bug fixes and stability improvements

January 2023

Lifecycle

Support for new IoT Access Point 3
General bug fixes and stability improvements

Cloud & Gateway

Support for new IoT Access Point 3
General bug fixes and security and stability improvements

Insights

General bug fixes and stability improvements

2022

December 2022

Lifecycle

General bug fixes and stability improvements

Cloud & Gateway

General bug fixes and security and stability improvements

Insights

General bug fixes and stability improvements

November 2022

Lifecycle

General bug fixes and stability improvements

Cloud & Gateway

Add support for Ethernet based sensors
Reduce frequency of uplink capacity tests for bandiwidth saving
General bug fixes and security and stability improvements

Insights

General bug fixes and stability improvements

October 2022

Lifecycle

General bug fixes and stability improvements

Cloud & Gateway

General bug fixes and security and stability improvements

Insights

General bug fixes and stability improvements

September 2022

Lifecycle

General bug fixes and stability improvements

Cloud & Gateway

Performance improvements on all Cirrus message processing, specially in some such as LocationRequest
General bug fixes and security and stability improvements

Insights

General bug fixes and stability improvements

August 2022

Lifecycle

General bug fixes and stability improvements

Cloud & Gateway

General bug fixes and security and stability improvements

Insights

General bug fixes and stability improvements

July 2022

Lifecycle

General bug fixes and stability improvements

Cloud & Gateway

General bug fixes and security and stability improvements

Insights

Fix bug where temperature would not show selected unit in some views
General bug fixes and stability improvements

June 2022

Lifecycle

Layout update to unit list
Fix bug where samples would be shown in wrong unit sporadically
More intuitive presentation of PM data
Added visual feedback for some actions in the UI
More performant search in unit list
Improvements to dark mode
General bug fixes and stability improvements

Cloud & Gateway

General bug fixes and security and stability improvements

Insights

Add "Floor plan" visualisation in Investigate - for showing data on a map
Add support for Particulate matter
Add support for Sound pressure level
Add Environment report under Scenarios
General bug fixes and stability improvements

May 2022

Lifecycle

Faster search in location list
Search for account names and account numbers in location list
Improved performance in location list
Improved performance in planning tool
Dark mode now extends to maps and floor plan views
Stability improvements for Single-Sign on login
New visualisations of historical data in the device status map sidebar
Position log has a new presentation in the device sidebar
Fix bug with wrong color of highlighted sinks and sources in the planning tool
Improved readability of system health messages
It is now possible to select longer time ranges when viewing historical data
It is now possible to select time range in Asset Browser
Issue where Link to Yanzi Insights would not initiate a login flow fixed
General stability and performance improvements

Cloud & Gateway

General bug fixes and security and stability improvements

Insights

General improvement of Investigate view. Use "Take the tour"-button to see intended usage.
The added "Series" feature in Investigate lets the user combine multiple metrics in the same chart.
Heatmap now available in Investigate.
Ability to save Investigate reports for future use. All reports are saved to the location, so everyone with access to the location can see and edit them.
New combinations of dimensions and metrics added for further analysis of building health.
Asset groups: add assets to groups for easy access in Investigate reports.
It is now possible to select which asset to show in the "Utilization" dashboard.
Number of groups shown in Desk/Room utilization report is limited to 5, then a "Show more..." button is shown.
Fix scroll bug in Explore.
Fix bug where an invalid time selection would lead to an unrecoverable error.
All Custom Dashboards are now saved to the location, so everyone with access to the location can access them.
Minor dark mode improvements.
General bug fixes and stability improvements.

April 2022

Lifecycle

General bug fixes and stability improvements

Cloud & Gateway

Add Support for aggregation of Sound Pressure, Atmospheric Pressure and Particulate Matter in assets
Fix bug where new gateway might not be able to connect to the Yanzi Cloud
General bug fixes and security and stability improvements

Insights

General bug fixes and stability improvements

March 2022

Lifecycle

Fix issues in "Connect new gateway" flow
Improve robustness on Device ID input sanitizing
Add charts for new Yanzi Health data types
Cleanup of available languages
General bug fixes and stability improvements

Cloud & Gateway

General bug fixes and stability improvements

Insights

General bug fixes and stability improvements

February 2022

Lifecycle

General bug fixes and stability improvements

Cloud & Gateway

Improvements in API performance
General bug fixes and stability improvements

Insights

Add new reports: Desk / Room utilization and People count
Add new static dashboards: Floor plan live data / Building people count
Brand new custom dashboard editor: Easier process with configuration stored in the cloud which allows for more custom configuration
Building, floor and area groups now aggregates air quality metrics from their child assets
Ability to toggle series in new charts
General bug fixes and stability improvements

January 2022

Lifecycle

Fix an issue where Gateway would show in multiple floors in some views
General bug fixes and stability improvements

Cloud & Gateway

General bug fixes and stability improvements

Insights

General bug fixes and stability improvements

2021

December 2021

Lifecycle

Fix issue in Asset bulk editor which previously sometimes showed old values
New Topology graph with colored edges/link status information
Styling improvements in Planning tool
Added possibility to set the position of a gateway by typing coordinates
Improvements on functionality display based on access level
Improved accessibility and performance in the tree view in Asset browser
Mobile layout improvements
Accessible map buttons
Add data type selector to dashboard page
General bug fixes and stability improvements

Cloud & Gateway

Fixed bug where Offline sensor count in Health report was not correct in some cases with disconnected Access Points
General bug fixes and stability improvements

Insights

Append authentication information to Insights links when using SSO
General bug fixes and stability improvements

November 2021

Lifecycle

Accessible map in Location list, clicking a location in the map now opens a prompt for which service to open
New beta Compact mode in location list
Add and improve language support for NO, SE, DA, EN
Add ability to set gateway position without floor plan requirement
General bug fixes and stability improvements

Cloud & Gateway

General bug fixes and stability improvements

Insights

People count chart in "Overview" report is now a bar chart instead of a line chart
Add ability to show people count in "Overview" report by 2 hour timeslots
Clicking the Light Bulb next to a chart toggles a new chart explanation, including a list of all the assets included in the selection. Click "Show assets" in a multi-asset selection to get the list.
"Historical summary" report does not reload automatically when making changes to the data selection improving performance significantly. Press "Apply configuration" to load new data.
An issue where the page would become unresponsive when changing the time selection has been resolved.
New "Peak" metric aggregation which shows the maximum value at a certain timeslot within the interval.
Map views (all but Live) now have a "Show desks and chairs" option which toggles desks and chairs in the map.
Investigate does not reload all data on every configuration change, but waits for the "Apply configuration" button to be pressed before reloading improving performance significantly.
Investigate now includes a list of all assets in the current asset selection at the bottom.
Bar charts now include an option to show or hide 0 on y-axis
General bug fixes and stability improvements

October 2021

Lifecycle

Location list has a new look and is now grouped by User Group
Access all services from the Location list
Configuration assistant is improved in functionality and appearance
Performance improvements
General layout improvements (location menu, location settings, etc.)

Cloud & Gateway

We continue to improve the Gateway offline alerts. Thanks for your feedback!
General bug fixes and stability improvements

Insights

General bug fixes and stability improvements

September 2021

Lifecycle

General bug fixes and stability improvements.

Cloud & Gateway

Removed unused DataSourceAddresses from Assets (utilization and percentage when assets do not have children assets)
Removed unused DataSourceAddresses from Chassis (log and unitState)
Support for chassisDid as MatchDTO
(Beta) Alert is sent to admin in the group if a location has been offline for more than 24 hours
Improve messages on System Health warnings
General bug fixes and stability improvements

Insights

General bug fixes and stability improvements

August 2021

Lifecycle

Fixed issue that would result in error at login or at adding user to a group when casing on username was not lowercase.
Fixed issue where a created user group sometimes would not autofocus in New location wizard.
Fixed issue where the map would stick to north-south alignment even though a rotation had been set.
Improved performance in the planning tool.
The link to the Terms of Service is now more accessible.
Improved System Health messages.
General bug fixes and stability improvements.

Cloud & Gateway

Improvements in DataSourceAddresses management. Unused DataSourceAddresses on assets will not be showed in the future.
General bug fixes and stability improvements

Insights

General bug fixes and stability improvements

July 2021

Lifecycle

General bug fixes and stability improvements

Cloud & Gateway

Improved reconnection and robustness for gateway cloud connection for websocket channels.
General bug fixes and stability improvements

Insights

General bug fixes and stability improvements

June 2021

Lifecycle

General bug fixes and stability improvements

Cloud & Gateway

Non-admin users can see all other users in groups they belong to
Fixed bug in Footfall aggregation after removing deleted devices
Support for upcoming new IAQ sensors
Fixed bug that caused an exception when sending invalid GetSampleRequest
General bug fixes and stability improvements

Insights

General bug fixes and stability improvements

May 2021

Lifecycle

General bug fixes and stability improvements

Cloud & Gateway

General bug fixes and stability improvements

Insights

General bug fixes and stability improvements

April 2021

Lifecycle

General bug fixes and stability improvements

Cloud & Gateway

General bug fixes and stability improvements

Insights

Improved design. Main menu is now moved to the left hand side of the screen and all location specific features are accessed from there.
Improved performance during data processing and general improvements regarding time series analysis.
The Overview section has been merged with the Reports section and is now presented as a report.
The Reports section is now the default location page in Yanzi Insights.
New report: “Historical summary” gives you a quick overview of your site’s performance regarding a specific data type.
More graphs now supports downloading the charts as images and CSV.
Direct links to Conference rooms and Desks in Explore menu have been added.
Improved Investigate, using the same visual elements as the rest of Yanzi Insights for recognizability.
Improved visibility of the link to the Terms of Service.
New filters: ability to filter assets on asset type, floor level, area group and other metrics.
General accessibility and design improvements.
Fixed issue where the tabs in Explore where not shown correctly for some users.
Charts are now more interactive and a tooltip has been added to most charts.
Various improvements from user feedback. We love your feedback! Please continue to use the “Send feedback” button (from your personal menu) to provide feedback or feature requests.

March 2021

Lifecycle

General bug fixes and stability improvements

Cloud & Gateway

Fixed bug where deleted prospects would reappear
Fixed issue where resolution from humidity sensor was truncated
General bug fixes and stability improvements

Sensor Firmware

Added robustness to prevent sensors to end in a state where data from a specific sensor would not be sent any longer.
General bug fixes and stability improvements

February 2021

Lifecycle

Improved Yanzi IoT Mesh planning and coverage estimation
Setting position of Yanzi IoT Gateway is now possible through the Configuration assistant
Stability improvements in asset browser
Performance improvements for large-scale plans in the planning tool
When uploading an image floor plan, it will be placed on the same coordinates as any previous image
Improved authentication flow between different Yanzi applications
Usability improvements in the installation tool

Cloud & Gateway

General bug fixes and stability improvements

January 2021

Lifecycle

Improvements in configuration assistant now reassigns all sinks and not just motion
Better authentication experience, especially for access token logins
Generally improved design
Enable battery view in data visualization map
New Floor upload flow when uploading images
Accessibility improvements in floor maps
Accessible tables: click column headers to sort where possible
Search in groups
Support for SSO
General performance improvements

Cloud & Gateway

General bug fixes and stability improvements

2020

December 2020

Lifecycle

Configuration assistant now reassigns all sinks and not just motion
Support for SSO for Enterprise plan customers
Better authentication experience, especially for access token logins
Generally improved design
Enable live battery status in the Map view
New Floor upload flow when uploading images
Accessibility improvements in floor maps, assets are also clickable
Search in accounts
General bug fixes and stability improvements

Cloud & Gateway

Bugfix when deleting sensors that could leave some inconsistent state
General bug fixes and stability improvements

Sensor Firmware

Better handling and report of invalid sensor data when battery is low
Improved link selection on hybrid (SubGHz connections)
General bug fixes and stability improvements

Insights

Easy access to groups of assets in Explore. Conference rooms, desks, areas are now located at the top of the sidebar.
Select slot length in Explore overview of asset types.
Tab layout in Explore to split by use case.
Brand new Investigate view with ability to customize data selection and presentation.
New report: Workplace air quality. Get a quick view of the historical air quality in the building.
New report: Workplace utilization. Key numbers of the building utilization.
New report: Desk utilization. Information about the usage of desks.
New report: Room utilization. Information about the usage of rooms.
New report: Occupancy and utilization. Compare rooms and areas in the aspects of both occupancy and utilization.
New default time ranges: quickly select a certain month during the last year.
General bug fixes and stability improvements

June 2020

Lifecycle, Cloud & Gateway

Efficient way to delete and deinstall sensors added to simplify reconfiguration of offices.
New User roles; Manager and Installer added.
Improvements of System Health
Additional timezones added to selections
Sample percentage for Katrin dispensers is now pushed with subscription data. The SampleRefillList has been deprecated.
Footfall instance added to virtual sensor
General bug fixes and stability improvements

Insights

Indoor air quality value distribution analysis
Global Day-of-week filtering
Changes to navigation structure
Improved color schemes in maps for historical data and showing legends for color schemes.
Social distancing application now handles walls.
General bug fixes and stability improvements

May 2020

Lifecycle

System Health for easy diagnostics of your Yanzi System
General bug fixes and stability improvements

Cloud & Gateway

Simplified use of client certificate authentication with Cirrus API
Microsoft IoT Hub Connector upgraded with new SDK v 1.21.1
Backend support for new Installer user role
Zero point calibration added at time of connecting a new CO2 sensor
Increased robustness of sensor upgrade in poor connectivity environments
Security improvements
General bug fixes and stability improvements

April 2020

Lifecycle

New UI for browsing and managing assets
Performance improvements to Map rendering
868 MHz coverage enabled by default in planning
System health feature enabled.
Fixed bug with change in prospects not being saved.
General bug fixes and stability improvements

Cloud & Gateway

Sensor data stored in Gateway cleaned out if older then 6 months. In case disk space is not enough, data older than 3 months will be removed.
Added new data source address “battery” in battery powered devices' chassis units.
Security improvements in Gateway OS.
General bug fixes and stability improvements

Sensor Firmware

Reduced data message size in wireless networks
Upgrade to AES-CCM encryption between sensors and Gateway
Major improvments on SubGHz radio performance
General improvements of network topology management
General bug fixes and stability improvements

March 2020

Lifecycle * Now possible to filter on connection status in the List view. * Fixed issue with a device having a position showing an error not having one. * Fixed issue with positioning a Gateway on the map after installation. * Fixed issue with a planned and installed device disappeared from the map if it fails to connect. * General bug fixes and stability improvements

Cloud & Gateway * Corrected error message when trying to Login with an invalid sessionId * Added locationId and SubscriptionType parameters in SubscriptionData message top level for ease of parsing * Fixed issue where UnitDTO list would temporarily contain invalid UnitDTOs during installation of devices. * Performance improvements in Gateway software

February 2020

Cloud & Lifecycle * Consolidated live data views into one * New data selector design in kiosk * Search by Product Type now possible in Lifecycle List view * Default logical naming on devices updated to follow: Parent Asset name (inherited from GeoJSON if exist) + Type + last 4 characters in device DID. * Wattson IoT Beta Connector updated to SDK 0.4.0 * MSFT IoT Hub Beta Connector updated to SDK 1.19.0

Gateway * Internet access through 4G Gateway Ethernet port disabled by default on all 4G Gateways. Can be enabled through Yanzi Support when needed for trouble shooting. * Robustness fixes in mobile network selection in Gateway 4G * Gateway Plus/Large/XL OS version upgrade. * Added automated fail over to Ethernet uplink if Modem is unreachable (broken) in Gateway 4G.

Yanzi Live * Yanzi Live API Documentation now points to new API documentation page yanzi.dev

General performance and robustness improvements and bug fixes

Other Information:

API server certificates have been renewed. Now using Let’s Encrypt Certificate Authority.

January 2020

Hotfix pushed in January:* Hotfix for privilege escalation issue with access tokens when combined with new and experimental GraphQL API
General performance and robustness improvements in Cloud servers

2019

December 2019

Deletion of sensors through Yanzi Lifecycle Tool
Additional error handling added to MSFT SDK used with IoT Hub Connector (Beta)
Bug fix avoiding network cameras to be shown show in the unit list
Additional capabilities added to Configuration Assistant
General performance and robustness improvements and bug fixes in Gateways
General performance and robustness improvements and bug fixes in Cloud servers

November 2019

Yanzi Platform

Microsoft IoT Hub connector (Beta) updated with latest version of IoT Hub SDK (1.18.0)
IBM Watson IoT connector (Beta) updated with new version of IBM Watson IoT SDK (0.2.2)
General performance and robustness improvements and bug fixes in Gateways.
General performance and robustness improvements and bug fixes in Cloud servers.

Yanzi Lifecycle * Bulk editor added to simplify configuration of Asset properties. * New feature: Configuration Assistant. * Groups (previous Accounts) can now be renamed. * Support for managing Yanzi Sense configuration options. * The planning tool now issues a warning for sensors placed outside of their zone of conformity. * General performance and robustness improvements and bug fixes

October 2019

General performance and robustness improvements and bug fixes in Gateways.
General performance and robustness improvements and bug fixes in Cloud servers.
Accounts renamed to Groups in Yanzi Lifecycle

September 2019

Automatic upgrade to latest Software version of Gateways before being provisioned to Yanzi Cloud.
Backend support for using a planned Prospects at time of installation in Yanzi Lifecycle.
Protection against API usage abuse. Specifically, limit of 10 GetLocationsRequest / session with a bucket filling allowing a new request every second.
HSTS (HTTP Strict Transport Security) policy added in Cirrus API servers for increased security.
General performance and robustness improvements and bug fixes in Gateways.
General performance and robustness improvements and bug fixes in Cloud servers.

August 2019

Packet size optimisation on sensor network communication for improved network efficiency.
IoTHub connector (Beta) updated to latest Microsoft SDK version with latest bug fixes.
Breaking change for IoTHub Digital Twin connector (Beta): The telemetry property “DigitalTwins-SensorHardwareId” that should match the “Sensor HardwareID” property in Digital Twins is from now on formatted as “locationId/DID/variableName” as opposed to previously being formatted as “locationId/DID”
General performance and robustness improvements and bug fixes in Gateways
General performance and robustness improvements and bug fixes in Cloud servers.

July 2019

Sensor firmware: * Improvement on Forward Protection discovery protocol. Fixed issue when the Forward Protection was not used even if available. * Improvement on beacon selection for meshing. * Improvement on power consumption for first generation Yanzi devices.

Gateway and Cloud: * Fixed issue that caused assets to not show the state correctly first time after creation. * Fixed issue where scanning of Access Point DID would not let it connect without manually adding suffix -IoTAP. It is now automatically added at installation using the Lifecycle Tool. * General performance and robustness improvements and bug fixes in Gateways. * General performance and robustness improvements and bug fixes in Cloud servers.

June 2019

General performance and robustness improvements and bug fixes in Gateways.
General performance and robustness improvements and bug fixes in Cloud servers.

May 2019

Improvements in startup time of the Gateway.
Additional security against wireless brute force attacks.
Automated upgrades of sensor software.
Cirrus API update:
New fields available in SubscribeResponse, named subscriptionType, locationID and expireTime, see API documentation for more info.
Inclusion of the same data in “responseMessage” field is now deprecated.
General performance and robustness improvements and bug fixes in Gateways.
General performance and robustness improvements and bug fixes in Cloud servers.

April 2019

Improvements in Gateway's LAN security.
Gateway robustness and protection against sensor disconnects due to unexpected LAN network behaviour.
General roll-out of dual layer security in the IoT Network.
General performance and robustness improvements and bug fixes in Gateways.
General performance and robustness improvements and bug fixes in Cloud servers.

March 2019

Robustness fixes on Access Point connectivity.
Improvements in Factory Reset of 4G gateways.
Update in status LED behavior, see updated user manual for details.
Introduced secure configuration of network parameters, Gateway —> Cloud, such as APN configuration.
Fallback implemented for DHCP servers returning a non-working DNS server.
Sensor Network robustness improvements against radio interferences (Forward Protection).
Sensor Network preparation for general roll-out of dual layer security.
Bugfix for some cases where unitDTO is not reporting chassi DID.
General performance and robustness improvements in Gateways.
General performance and robustness improvements in Cloud servers.

February 2019

Stability fix for the API-servers.
Bug fix for isMotion/isNoMotion unitState subscribeData message. Now according to activity level of site.
Bug fix for SetCustomPropertyResponse. Now it reports error when request is dropped, if access is not allowed.
Stability fix that will shut down inactive websockets.
Bug fix that prevents users from installing sensors with an invalid position when not selecting a position in the installation view.
Various stability and bug fixes.