June 2024

This improvement enhances the BluSKY AI Controller UI by allowing users to add readers during the creation and editing of AIC (Artificial Intelligence Controller) setups directly in the input and output channel sections. This streamlined process enables users to seamlessly incorporate readers into their configurations, enhancing efficiency and flexibility in managing access control systems. With this feature, users can effortlessly integrate readers into their AIC setups, simplifying the overall management and operation of access control systems within the BluSKY environment.

The conversion of all BluSKY UDC web pages to the unified interface provides significant value by streamlining user experience and enhancing operational efficiency. With this improvement, users can seamlessly navigate between different functionalities within the BluSKY ecosystem, including the Video beta, Portal, Monitoring Point beta, EMS, Datalake, Interactive Map, and Diagnostics pages. This unified interface ensures consistency in design, layout, and functionality across all pages, reducing the learning curve for users and simplifying their interactions with the platform.

• By consolidating these disparate pages into a single, cohesive interface, users can access all BluSKY functionalities from a centralized location, eliminating the need to switch between multiple interfaces or platforms. This not only saves time but also enhances productivity by providing a consistent user experience across all BluSKY modules.
• Furthermore, the unified interface promotes better usability and accessibility, as users can quickly locate and utilize various features without having to familiarize themselves with different interfaces. This improvement enhances user satisfaction and promotes adoption rates, as users can easily leverage the full capabilities of the BluSKY platform without encountering usability challenges or inconsistencies.

Overall, the conversion of BluSKY UDC web pages to the unified interface delivers tangible benefits by improving user experience, increasing operational efficiency, and promoting seamless integration of BluSKY functionalities into daily workflows.

This improvement to the BluSKY Elevator Management System (EMS) delivers substantial value by enhancing functionality and user experience across various aspects of elevator management.

• Firstly, adjusting the size of the hoistway head component to match the elevator car ensures that all floors to be served are accurately displayed. This ensures precise monitoring and control of elevator operations, enhancing safety and efficiency.
• Secondly, displaying the elevator's current state on the car when it stops to pick up passengers provides users with real-time information, improving communication and reducing uncertainty for passengers and operators alike.
• Additionally, adding a symbol for navigating to the Elevator Car configuration page in both UDC and car selection streamlines accessibility and facilitates quick access to configuration settings, enhancing user convenience and productivity.
• Moreover, displaying all serviced floors on the left side of the elevator car view offers improved visibility and clarity, making it easier for users to identify and select desired floors, thereby enhancing user experience and efficiency.
• Furthermore, the improvements in Elevator Car movement and acceleration enhance operational performance, resulting in smoother rides and reduced transit times, ultimately improving overall user satisfaction and comfort.

• Enhanced Views: Display all serviced floors and elevator's current state when stopping to pick up passengers.

• Improved Movement: Enhanced Elevator Car movement and acceleration.

• Easy Navigation: New symbol for Elevator Car configuration page navigation.

In summary, these enhancements to the BluSKY Elevator Management System significantly improve functionality, usability, and efficiency, ultimately enhancing the overall elevator management experience for users and passengers alike.

This improvement to the BluSKY Person Reader User Interface brings significant value by enhancing user convenience and efficiency. By loading gold standard values for Person Reader configuration by default, including the 'offline time default' and the 'retry interval default' values, users are provided with a streamlined setup process.

• The inclusion of these default gold standard values simplifies the configuration process, saving users time and effort. Users no longer need to manually input these values, reducing the risk of errors and ensuring consistency across configurations.
• Moreover, by incorporating gold standard values, users benefit from industry-best practices without the need for extensive research or trial and error. This not only accelerates the setup process but also helps users achieve optimal performance and reliability from their Person Reader systems right from the start.

Overall, this improvement enhances the usability and effectiveness of the BluSKY Person Reader User Interface, empowering users to configure their systems quickly and confidently while ensuring they operate at peak performance.

This enhancement to BluSKY Reports significantly enhances user flexibility and customization options, ultimately improving the utility and effectiveness of the reporting feature.

• With the event history detail report, after a customer’s request, now allowing different component types to be selected independently, users gain granular control over the information they wish to analyze. This capability empowers users to tailor reports to their specific needs, focusing on relevant component types and omitting unnecessary data. As a result, users can extract more meaningful insights from the event history, leading to better decision-making and more efficient problem-solving.

• Additionally, in the Intelligence > Reports > Role Assignment Details report, the inclusion of Building and Occupancy scoped reporting expands the scope of analysis, providing users with a comprehensive view of role assignments across different areas of their facilities. This broader perspective enables users to identify patterns, trends, and discrepancies in role assignments, facilitating better management of access control and security protocols.

• Advanced Scheduling: Enhanced report scheduling and management with re-run capabilities.

• Entity Changes: Support for the enhanced report scheduler.

• Scheduler Updates: Reporting Scheduler updates on Function App Core.

Overall, these improvements to BluSKY Reports enhance user productivity, facilitate more informed decision-making, and contribute to overall operational efficiency by providing users with greater control and insight into their data.

This enhancement to the BluSKY Universal Device Controller (UDC) brings substantial value by improving functionality, efficiency, and user experience across multiple aspects of device management and event monitoring.

• By setting the device timezone as the default timezone for events and Devices UDC components, users benefit from enhanced accuracy and consistency in event logging and device management. This ensures that all events and device operations are timestamped and recorded with precision, facilitating seamless monitoring and analysis.
• Integration of Video UDC across various pages including Camera List, Camera Config, Alarm, historic events, and Realtime events enhances accessibility and streamlines video management tasks. Users can now access video-related functionalities directly from relevant pages, eliminating the need for navigation between different sections, thereby saving time and improving workflow efficiency.
• Displaying a single camera icon in MetaView on alarms, events, and historic events pages enhances visual clarity and reduces clutter, making it easier for users to identify and locate relevant video feeds.
• The addition of Play, Copy Link, and Download Clip URL icons for event cards displayed on the right side further enhances usability by providing quick access to essential video playback and sharing functionalities.

• The implementation of a single search function at the bottom of the left navigation panel simplifies navigation and facilitates faster access to desired pages or functionalities within the UDC interface.

• The introduction of cache for select lists in the left nav with refresh on-demand functionality improves performance and responsiveness, ensuring smoother navigation and interaction with UDC components.

• Improvements to the event card on the right side, such as setting the timeline domain to 10 minutes and adding "Copy Link" action option to UDC event headers, enhance usability and facilitate efficient event analysis and management.

• Additionally, the inclusion of descriptive text for icons displayed in the action dropdown menu in UDC headers enhances user understanding and promotes ease of use.

• Enhancing the risk indicator to dynamically adjust according to varying risk levels improves situational awareness and enables users to prioritize and respond to security threats effectively.

• Unified Search: A single search function at the bottom of the left navigation panel.

• Smart Cache: On-demand refresh for select lists in the left nav.

• Dashboard Conversion: All UDC pages transformed to Dashboard pages.

• Enhanced Pages: Video - Beta, Portals - Beta, Monitoring Point - Beta, EMS - Beta, Data Lake, Interactive Maps, Diagnostics - Beta.

• Event Card Enhancements: Improved event card with a 10-minute timeline domain and device time zone settings.

• Integrated Video UDC: Across Camera List, Camera Config, Alarm, historic events, and Realtime events pages.

• New Actions: "Copy Link" for UDC event headers, dynamic risk indicator, Play, Copy Link, and Download Clip URL icons.

• Improved Meta View: Single camera icon for alarms, events, and historic events pages.

In summary, these enhancements to the BluSKY Universal Device Controller deliver tangible benefits by improving functionality, efficiency, and user experience, ultimately enhancing overall device management and event monitoring capabilities within the BluSKY platform.

BluSKY Events history feature allows users to select multiple facilities simultaneously under Control > Event History, offering several benefits:

1.     Efficiency: Users can save time by viewing event histories across multiple facilities in one interface without needing to switch between different views or tabs.

2.     Comprehensive Insights: It enables users to gain a comprehensive understanding of events occurring across various facilities, facilitating better decision-making and analysis.

3.     Streamlined Operations: Managers can oversee operations more effectively by accessing consolidated event data from multiple locations, enhancing operational efficiency and response times.

4.     Unified Monitoring: Provides a unified platform for monitoring security and operational events across an organization, promoting consistency and coherence in management practices.

5.     User-Friendly Interface: Enhances user experience with an intuitive interface that simplifies the process of navigating and analyzing event histories across different facilities.

Overall, the ability to select multiple facilities at once in the BluSKY Events history feature optimizes operational workflows and enhances situational awareness for improved facility management and security oversight.

The LLM Oracle whisper microphone feature offers several benefits for users:

1. Natural Language Interaction: Users can interact with the Oracle UI using natural language queries, making it easier and more intuitive to communicate and retrieve information.
2. Voice Command Convenience: By clicking the microphone button, users can start recording their query in real-time, eliminating the need for manual typing and streamlining the query process.
3. Efficient Query Recording: Recording queries through the microphone enables quick capture of thoughts and questions without interruption, enhancing workflow efficiency.
4. Transcription Capability: Upon clicking stop, the spoken query is transcribed and displayed in the chat input box, ensuring clarity and accuracy in communication.
5. Enhanced User Experience: Integrating whisper microphone functionality enhances the overall user experience by providing a seamless and responsive interface for interacting with the Oracle UI.
6. Accessibility and Speed: This feature improves accessibility for users who prefer or require voice input methods, while also speeding up the query formulation and response retrieval process.
7. Whisper Integration: Natural language query interaction through the oracle UI with voice-to-text transcription.

In summary, the BluSKY LLM Oracle whisper microphone feature enhances user productivity, facilitates natural language interaction, and improves the overall efficiency of querying and accessing information through intuitive voice command capabilities.

The LocalSync Expedited Delivery feature provides several benefits:

1. Error-Free Customer Experience: Customers no longer encounter errors when using the Expedited Delivery channel at their locations, ensuring a smooth and reliable user experience.
2. Faster Delivery of Updates: Expedited Delivery facilitates quicker and more efficient delivery of updates, ensuring that customers receive timely enhancements and fixes without delays.
3. Improved Reliability: By eliminating errors in the delivery channel, the reliability of deploying updates and configurations is enhanced, reducing potential disruptions and downtime.
4. Enhanced Operational Efficiency: Streamlined delivery processes improve overall operational efficiency, allowing IT teams to focus more on strategic tasks rather than troubleshooting delivery issues.
5. Customer Satisfaction: Reliable delivery of updates contributes to higher customer satisfaction by ensuring that systems remain up-to-date and functioning optimally.

Overall, the BluSKY LocalSync Expedited Delivery feature enhances service reliability, speeds up update deployment, and contributes to a positive customer experience by eliminating errors in the delivery channel.

The People feature provides several benefits with its enhanced functionality:

1.     Customizable Public Notes: Users can now add public notes for each card or credential while editing a person's profile, allowing for personalized and specific information to be easily documented.

2.     Improved Documentation and Tracking: Public notes associated with individuals are conveniently accessible in the person's History tab, providing a comprehensive view of interactions and updates over time.

3.     Enhanced Communication and Collaboration: The ability to add public notes facilitates better communication among users within the BluSKY platform, ensuring that important details about individuals are shared and documented effectively.

4.     Increased Security and Transparency: By documenting relevant information such as special permissions or interactions in public notes, security protocols and access management processes can be more transparent and accountable.

5.     Efficient Management: Streamlined access to public notes within the person's profile simplifies administrative tasks related to managing individuals, ensuring that information is readily available for reference and decision-making

6.     Audit Entries: Public Notes field entries on Person credential now create custom person audit entries under Person History tab.

Overall, the BluSKY People feature enhances operational efficiency, promotes better communication, and improves security management by enabling the addition and visibility of public notes for each card or credential associated with individuals.

The Visitor admissions feature now offers significant benefits following recent improvements:

1.     Resolved Email and Instance Generation Issues: Users can now generate Visitor and Vendor emails and instances without encountering previous issues, ensuring smooth and reliable processing of visitor admissions.

2.     Enhanced Menu Clarity: The elimination of blank spaces in menu items under Control > Visitor Admissions improves user navigation and clarity, making it easier to access and manage admission-related functionalities.

3.     Improved User Experience: These enhancements contribute to an overall improved user experience by streamlining the process of managing visitor admissions and reducing potential confusion or delays.

4.     Increased Efficiency: Users can now perform tasks related to visitor and vendor management more efficiently, saving time and effort previously spent on troubleshooting or navigating through unclear menu options.

5.     Enhanced Reliability: With the problems resolved and menu items optimized, the feature operates more reliably, ensuring consistent functionality for managing visitor admissions effectively.

In summary, the improvements in the BluSKY Visitor admissions feature enhance functionality, clarity, and reliability, thereby improving overall user satisfaction and operational efficiency in managing visitor and vendor admissions.

• UI Enhancements: Center-aligned event card counts, improved video timeline, and fixed location generation issues.
• Playback Improvements: Resolved video playback inconsistencies and event timeline issues.
• Data Integrity: Ensured accurate and consistent data reporting across cubes and reports.