January 2024
Analytics Enhancements - New Analytics
Elevator Scatter Diagram New Elevator Scatter Diagram Diagnostic graphically represents each person's elevator floor selection over the past three months, providing insights for optimizing building access and security. This tool aids in understanding floor usage patterns, facilitating efficient access level adjustments based on actual data. Floors Per Occupancy New Floors Per Occupancy analytic feature offers detailed insights into building occupancy, highlighting total floors defined for each occupancy, number of reception floors, and mailrooms floors per occupant. This analytic shows database completeness for each occupant and aids in efficient building management, providing operational oversight for each occupant. People Added, Modified and Deleted by Floor Now features 'People Added, Modified, and Deleted by Floor' analytic, tracking population changes on each floor. This data assists in adjusting HVAC and lighting systems based on occupancy, aiding in efficient energy consumption and space utilization. People Added, Modified and Deleted by Occupancy Now features 'People Added, Modified, and Deleted by Floor' analytic, tracking population changes in each occupancy. This data assists in adjusting HVAC and lighting systems based on occupancy, aiding in efficient energy consumption and space utilization. People Per Floor Introduces the "Total People, People Per Floor" analytic, enhancing building safety and efficiency. This BluSKY analytic provides occupancy data per floor, aiding emergency response, optimizing energy use, and maintaining an accurate database. It's essential for strategic space management and safety regulation compliance. People Per Occupancy Introduces the People Per Occupancy analytic, a tool for visualizing tenant occupancy levels in buildings. It displays a descending bar chart of occupancies, aiding in efficient credential management, space utilization, and compliance with safety standards. This data-driven approach enhances building management and operational decision-making. Vendor Group Per Facility Vendor Group Per Facility analytic enhances building security by providing real-time insights into large vendor groups' arrival times and sizes. Designed for groups of over five, it aids security officers in managing loading dock traffic efficiently, ensuring smooth operations and heightened safety. Visitor Group Per Facility Visitor Group Per Facility analytic enhances building security by providing real-time insights into large visitor groups' arrival times and sizes. Designed for groups of over five, it aids security officers in managing security desk traffic efficiently, ensuring smooth operations and heightened safety. Who's In Statistics By Facility Introducing: 'Who's In Statistics by Facility Analytic.' This innovative tool tracks daily individual access counts to any facility, providing insightful data on average attendance and its variation over time. Enhance building management and security with accurate, time-function facility usage statistics. |
Person Reader Enhancements
BluB0X's latest BluSKY person-reader enhancements now achieve a remarkable 99.99% accuracy in recognition and verification. Key improvements include an optimized appearance recognition pipeline for faster, cleaner data processing. Additionally, the new floor display mode in our destination dispatch elevators shows accessible and locked floors, enhancing navigation and security. Locked floors display a unique icon, becoming selectable upon credential presentation or appearance recognition, ensuring secure and efficient access control. Configuration Enhancements The Person Reader Configuration now features Beacon Integration, Video Recorder Configuration, Destination Dispatch Keypad Configuration, and Associated Devices. Enhancements include Visitor Access Control and Employee One Day Pass options. These upgrades streamline setup, enabling efficient standalone or integrated controller and reader configurations. Benefit from improved control, enhanced security, and faster, more flexible reader setup, meeting diverse access |
AI Controller Enhancements
We've upgraded the AI controller, now featuring real-time state updates for enhanced BluSKY performance. The integration of Docker streamlines deployment. Compatibility with seven NVIDIA SOMs, including the Jetson-Orin series, boosts processing power by 100x. Newly added support for downloading and executing large language models expands local AI capabilities, offering robust, efficient, and smarter system performance. AI Controller Configuration Enhancements This update introduces beacon integration, video recorder configuration, and streamlined management of associated devices. With the added advantage of Docker, deployment is now more efficient and automated, ensuring a smoother, more secure, and scalable solution. These advancements significantly enhance user experience and operational efficiency, reinforcing BluSKY's commitment to innovation in security technology. |
Automatic Floor and Destination Dispatch Elevator Assignment Enhancement
Automatic Floor and Destination Dispatch for elevators now includes customizable AI recommendations. Occupancies can set a percentage in the Occupancy Configuration page to define when floors, floor stops, and destination dispatch elevator auto assignments occur, offering tailored control and efficiency in elevator operations. |
BluREMOTE Enhancements
BluREMOTE now features AI-driven reader and floor selection, auto-adding lobby and default floors to Favorites. Location exemption indicator and automatic building selection enhance user convenience. The new 'Show All Points' displays all accessible points. Context-aware power management conserves energy by deactivating when inactive and reactivating upon movement, ensuring efficient and intuitive access control. These upgrades streamline user experience and energy usage, embodying BluSKY's commitment to innovation. |
Location Services Enhancements
Introducing an enhanced AI model for indoor localization, integrating weather-adjusted barometric floor detection. This advanced feature significantly improves floor localization accuracy, optimizing destination dispatch for elevator requests and assignments, ensuring a more efficient and precise navigation experience within buildings. |
Events Timeline Enhancements
BluSKY's latest update revolutionizes the Events Timeline with a compact layout, enhancing visibility and user experience. Streamlined filters and compressed time periods at each end, now marked by information icons, facilitate efficient navigation and quicker access to crucial data, optimizing operational efficiency. |
Left Navigation Enhancements
BluSKY's left navigation now features enhanced views and layouts, enabling customizable dashboard-style layouts with faster site recall and group sharing. Improved drag-and-drop functionality simplifies dashboard/module customization, offering predefined screen layouts for a more efficient and tailored user experience. |
Right Side Bar Enhancements
BluB0X enhances user experience with the updated right sidebar in BluSKY. The sidebar now features advanced device messages, offering more intuitive navigation and clearer understanding of device statuses. This update ensures seamless operations and efficient management, elevating overall system usability |
Center Stage Enhancements
The latest update to BluSKY enhances the Center Stage area with dynamic multi-window display capabilities. Users can now efficiently organize and resize multiple windows, streamlining workflow and enhancing productivity. This feature provides a more flexible and user-friendly interface, improving overall user experience in managing their security system. |
Universal Device Control (UDC) Enhancements
Introducing Photo ID integration for portals and readers. Swipe credentials to display user photos for enhanced security verification. Features collapsible icons for device association and streamlined event timeline filters, optimizing functionality in compact views |
Portal – Beta Enhancements
BluSKY's latest update enhances the portal experience with advanced drag-and-drop capabilities from the left navigation to the portal page. It also upgrades portal UDC functionality, integrating associated devices and introducing a new, more concise, and responsive event timeline for streamlined operations. |
AutoID Improvements
BluSKY's AutoID function has been enhanced with an improved AI model, significantly improving photo selection from the person reader. This results in higher quality photo IDs and more accurate auto ID images, enhancing security and user experience. |
Intercom Improvements
BluSKY Intercom Configuration now features group calling based on schedule and device selection. Users can define master stations for tailored calls, ensuring efficient communication during designated day or night schedules. This enhancement optimizes site-specific connectivity, elevating security, and operational flexibility in real-time scenarios. |
BluSKY Mobile
Upgraded to support Android 14 |
Person Preference Improvements/Enhancements
In the latest update to BluSKY, we've enhanced the Person Preferences feature by removing editing and saving restrictions and renaming labels for increased intuitiveness and clarity. These improvements make preferences more accessible and user-friendly. Added “Appearance, Voice, Name Opt In” to Basic Info |
Reporting Enhancements – New Reports
The latest BluSKY update introduces the User Floorstop Selection Activity Report. This report efficiently tracks and analyzes the floor stops selected by users, offering valuable insights into user preferences and elevator usage patterns. It's a key tool for enhancing building management and user experience. |
CCPA Policy Addition
BluB0X is pleased to announce the integration of the California Consumer Protections Act (CCPA) policy into our comprehensive security solutions. This update reflects our ongoing commitment to data privacy and security, aligning with the latest regulatory standards. Key Features and Benefits:
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BluSKY Improvements and Minor Bug Fixes
Fixed Refresh tokens |
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