Kalki.io Product Release Update-Nov 2022

Data Hub

Meter Data Acquisition Headend (MDAS)

• Meter firmware update enhancements to improve performance and additional options for retry configuration
• Added enhanced statistics for MDAS communication diagnostics
• Data availability trend for company-level view for company administrators required for large metering deployments
• Data compression for metering data
• The meter commands API has been enhanced to support meter push configuration and key changes
• Added selective access by entry-based polling for Billing profile, besides the load profile that is already available
• Performance improvement for bulk commands like connect /disconnect
• Bulk import capability added for meter on-boarding
• Meter was removed from the main landing page of devices and meter-related functions to be accessed by navigating to Energy Meters under Devices or Device Templates

Connectors

• Connector names and descriptions revised to be more self-explanatory 
• Added AWS S3-based connector for non-streaming data feed requirement
• REST API connector updates to support the configuration of call-back APIs from the external system
• HTTPS connector updates
  • Ease of configuring HTTPS posts to external URLs
  • Added header support
  • Added retry logic
• Added Data Extractor connector to support scheduled extracts of data
• IEC61968/61970 CIM connector is added to map data extracts to IEC CIM format
• Added SEDM RMS connector for data extracts to support SEDM RMS capabilities
• Added collator connector to collate messages based on a time window
• Added support for based routing connector
• Commands support added in meter data connector

Telemetry Headend

• Push interval configuration is added for telemetry data
• Added option to enable/disable Commands for telemetry devices
• Included multiple protocol filters and channel name wild card selection in Device Group Channel Healthiness Widget
• Added Device Group level widget for Edge Device Communication Alarms and events

Platform

• Postgres 14 minor upgrade included to avoid silent corruption of indexes
• Added notification on object sharing to shared users

Kalki.io Edge

Platform

• Generic package for all ARM -hf hardware
• IP-based filtering /whitelisting in firewall settings.
• Added support for OPCUA Server
• Added IoT Edge Module as a standard package

Azure IoT Edge Module

• Direct method support for Commands
• Support for IoTEdge runtime versions 1.3 and 1.4
• SDK update to version lts_07_2022
• Azure Device - Trusted certificate support - Digi Cert Global Root G2 added.

IEEE 2030.5 Client

• Optimized WAN bandwidth usage using Gzip compression.
• Option to disable polling for logEventList to optimize WAN communication bandwidth.
• Triggering MUP poll and post when MMR posting fails with 404 error code.
• IEEE1547.1 test case specific
  • Added generic function set for ride-through curves to map common enable and active curve index to support mapping from SunSpec Modbus 700 series model.
  • Option to map modes Enabled and modes Supported in addition to user defined static configuration.
  • Option to statically configure Active Power Rating in the DER configuration.
  • User-defined static configuration for controls.
• Support for Transfer Encoding – Chunked.

SunSpec Modbus Master

• Automapping for CtrlModes in DERCapability, Model 702.
• Added Master to master mapping option for mapping commands from local controllers/microgrid to DER device.
• Continuous reading support for scale factors to detect online changes
• Fixed a memory leak when commands are executed.

OPC UA Server

• Data Model support
  • User-defined data model support using node XML set file
  • The system-defined data model (auto-generated).
• Added online and offline options to select and trust client application instance certificates.
• Automapping to support bulk tag configuration

OPC UA Client

• Added Online and offline options to select and trust server application instance certificates

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