February 2024

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New Features

Data Lake - Champlain

Introducing Champlain, the BluSKY Data Lake, a versatile repository for structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data storage. Champlain offers automatic or manual data ingestion, advanced search capabilities utilizing both traditional and AI technologies, and detailed knowledge vectors for efficient data retrieval. Featuring a comprehensive API library in Node.js, Python, and C#, Champlain supports BluSKY’s AI Oracles and accommodates a wide range of data formats including database files, CSVs, floor plans, multimedia files (video, images, photos, audio files), and documents. Ideal for long-term data management, Champlain enables seamless data access and manipulation, ensuring data availability and insights for users across various platforms. The Data Lake is available in the left navigation menu.

Analytics Additions – 5 New Analytics

Elevator Car Analytics By Elevator Bank
A cutting-edge analytic tool to monitor elevator call volumes over time. Gain insights into traffic patterns, peak hours, and maintenance needs for each elevator bank, enhancing efficiency and reducing wait times. Features detailed hourly call tracking for precise analysis.

Elevator Car Analytics By Elevator Car
A precise monitoring for individual elevator cars, tracking call frequency, identifying peak times, and assessing uneven usage. This tool aids in tailored maintenance planning and operational efficiency by offering hour-by-hour call analysis for each car.

Elevator Car Analytics By Facility
Offering comprehensive insights into total elevator call volumes across a facility, broken down to hourly detail. This analytic tool enables effective understanding of traffic flow and peak usage times, optimizing elevator service for the entire building.

Who’s in Statistics By Floor
A new analytics tool offering detailed insights into occupancy by floor, including total count, average presence, and variance over time. Ideal for monitoring floor usage patterns and optimizing space management within the building.

Who’s in Statistics By Occupancy
An innovative analytics tool tracking daily attendance, average occupancy, and day-to-day variance. Essential for analyzing work patterns, such as days in office per week, and observing return-to-work trends on a company-by-company basis, enhancing workplace management.

Analytics Dashboards - 6 New Analytics Dashboards

Events Dashboard
A comprehensive, pre-configured dashboard designed for monitoring facility events. Users can effortlessly select facilities to view detailed analytics, including event types, categories, specific time periods, alarm events, and door status alarms. Ideal for gaining a holistic understanding of facility events over time.

Occupant Dashboard
Launch of the Occupant Dashboard: a dynamic tool providing detailed analytics on building occupancies. Features include database completion status, access levels, credentials, photos, emails, roles per occupancy, floor assignments, reception and mailroom locations, and total occupant counts. Essential for managing occupancy data and enhancing building operations efficiently.

People Add, Modified, Deleted Dashboard
A vital tool for tracking changes in personnel records over time, including additions, modifications, and deletions by facility, floor, and occupancy. Enables precise monitoring of database updates and occupancy changes, facilitating efficient management of personnel data.
Property Manager Dashboard
A comprehensive analytics suite offering insights into visitor flow, occupancy levels, floor-by-floor population, vendor visits, and event counts per facility. This tool empowers property managers with the data needed to effectively oversee and understand facility operations and trends.
Visitor Vendor Dashboard
A detailed tool for tracking visitor and vendor flow in facilities, showcasing expected versus actual arrivals, combined charts for comprehensive analysis, and pre-authorization statuses. Enables efficient management of visitor/vendor access and group visits, enhancing security and operational insights.

Who’s In Dashboard
An essential tool providing real-time and historical data on building occupancy. Track who's entering, their frequency, and distribution by facility, floor, and occupancy. Includes total counts, incremental changes over time, and visual stacking diagrams for comprehensive occupancy insights, facilitating effective building and space management.

Enhancements

Universal Device Control (UDC) Enhancements

The Universal Device Control (UDC) has been upgraded to enhance device management capabilities. Key features now include photo ID display options (large, medium, small, no photo ID), a unified events timeline, and expanded control over cameras, including selection and view preferences. The UDC integrates primary devices and their associated devices, such as cameras and intercoms, into a single interface, enabling comprehensive control from a unified dashboard. Photo IDs are dynamically displayed based on reader transactions, with support for both real-time and historic event data. This update provides a seamless, universal interface for managing a wide range of devices within BluSKY, ensuring a consistent user experience across all device interactions.

Left Navigation Enhancements

The left navigation menu has undergone significant enhancements to improve user experience and functionality. A dedicated User section for the logged-in user now offers quick access to profile settings, preferences, password reset, and logout options. The new Dashboard section allows users to manage dashboards with options to select, delete, duplicate, or save layouts. New Reports and Analytics sections categorize items for easy access and display saved or recurring items. An Artificial Intelligence section prepares for future integration with BluSKY Oracles, while the Data Lake section supports data uploads and searches. Navigation improvements include automatic collapsing of sections, increased width, and better visibility through cosmetic updates, alongside new expand/collapse functionality for streamlined navigation.

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Events Timeline Enhancements

The Events Timeline has received comprehensive enhancements for improved usability and functionality. Key updates include a relocated events filter, calendar, time block selector, and timeline resolution to the left side for easier access. Users now benefit from an advanced events filter offering time zone selection options: user's local time zone, device's location time zone, or a custom time zone. Additionally, a new events filter feature allows for automatic or custom selection of filters based on systems, facilities, floors, portals, readers, cameras, and monitoring points. This update facilitates more precise and flexible event timeline navigation, ensuring users can tailor their view to specific needs or maintaining seamless integration with the left navigation selections.

Interactive Map Enhancements

The Interactive Map has been upgraded with better map display options, integrating seamlessly with the new left navigation and enhanced events timeline for an improved user experience. This update offers more dynamic and intuitive map interactions, enriching the way users navigate and visualize facility data.

Portal – Beta Enhancements

Portal Beta now features integration with the new Left Navigation and Events Timeline, alongside Universal Device Control (UDC) for Portals. This includes advanced Photo ID and Camera functionalities, offering a more streamlined and powerful user experience for managing portal access and monitoring.

AI Controller Configuration Enhancements

The AI Controller configuration now features a new maps and location section, allowing controllers to be precisely mapped to specific floors and facilities. This enhancement facilitates easy device location for service and maintenance, improving operational efficiency and support.

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Person Reader Configuration Enhancements

Enhanced error logging for better troubleshooting, strict image quality control for analysis in BluSKY, streamlined event creation to eliminate redundancies, direct data lake integration for training images, and cloud-based configuration management via BluSKY for all person readers. These updates ensure improved accuracy, efficiency, and control, providing a seamless and scalable solution for managing your security infrastructure.

The Person Reader configuration now features a new maps and location section, allowing Person Readers to be precisely mapped to specific floors and facilities. This enhancement facilitates easy device location for service and maintenance, improving operational efficiency and support.

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BluREMOTE Enhancements

BluREMOTE has been upgraded to enhance user experience and accuracy in location-based services. A new floor location dropdown feature allows users to manually select the correct floor if automatic location estimation is inaccurate, improving destination dispatch for elevators and security point visibility. This manual override also enhances the AI's learning for floor identification. Additionally, BluREMOTE’s location accuracy has significantly increased from 95% to 99% through hourly calibration with local pressure and weather station data, leveraging pressure sensor readings for more precise location estimates. These updates ensure a more accurate, efficient, and user-friendly BluREMOTE experience.

Salient Integration Enhancements

BluSKY’s integration with Salient's video management software has been significantly enhanced, offering compatibility with the latest Salient features. Improvements include efficient operation without the need for streaming or advanced analytics enabled, support for reduced frame rate streaming, faster camera call-up, and enhanced control over camera streaming and viewing. With seamless integration into BluSKY’s interface and Universal Device Control (UDC), users are encouraged to upgrade to the latest Salient version for an optimized experience with BluB0X LVSM integration.

Reporting Enhancements

Occupancy Detail
The Occupancy Details Report has been upgraded to include comprehensive occupancy information: analytics floor selection threshold, SCIM identifier, residency floors, default floor, reception and mailroom floors with defaults, and email template and domain. This enhancement provides a complete view of each occupancy's configuration within a facility or system.
AutoID Enhancements
The AutoID functionality for Person Readers has been significantly enhanced, ensuring a more diverse and high-quality selection of photos. It now guarantees at least four photos per profile, including a glamour shot, and daily reviews to potentially replace existing images with better-quality options. This improvement aids in accurate photo comparisons with video or if an image needs to be added to a Watchlist.
Mercury Controller Configuration Enhancements
Mercury Controller Configuration now includes a comprehensive set of COM addresses, streamlining the selection of both standard and high-performance communication channels. This update simplifies system setup for integrators and accommodates future expansions and additions of new COM channels.

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