Measurements profiles
Instead of configuring every single plot in your charts manually, you can now define measurement profiles which define how data points should be displayed in charts, how their reference line and forecast should be calculated, and at which thresholds the system should raise an alarm. Once a profile is assigned to a data point, these settings are automatically applied when that data point is placed in a chart, and the alarm condition is checked periodically.
Transfer schematics between clients or systems
Schematics can now be transferred across clients or even between Alcedo Inhouse systems or Avelon Cloud. All used shapes from the shape library, as well as master pages and data point assignments will be transferred as well. This allows you to engineer schematics on one client or system and easily copy or move them to another.
Live value profiles for analog values
Until now, we’ve supported live value profiles for binary and multi-state data points (formerly known as “data point profiles”). Those profiles could be used to map the values of those data points to a more human-readable text.
We’ve now added a new type of live value profile specifically for analog values. It allows you to enter a minimum and maximum value to define the range of allowed values, as well as a step increment value. When the live value profile is assigned to an analog data point, these values will be taken into account when the user enters a new value on the schematic faceplate, limiting the input to the pre-defined range.
EDE export
In addition to importing BACnet Engineering Data Exchange (EDE) file, which will always create new data points that correspond to those BACnet objects, you can now also export existing BACnet objects as an EDE file in order to import them in other third-party software.
While the import still uses the traditional CSV-based format, the export uses the new Excel-based layout, which also includes the mapping of object types, units and states.
Improvements on schematic and its tools
You can now disable panning and zooming on Schematic widgets in view mode. This will improve usability if the schematics are used on touch-based devices like tablets, to avoid the schematic from being moved accidentally when the user drags a finger over the screen, e.g. while interacting with sliders.
It is also possible to lock shapes in edit mode to prevent them from being moved by accident. This is particularly helpful for bigger shapes that are used as background elements or borders, so that you can select and move smaller shapes that are placed on top of them more easily.
Text in Text shapes can now be centered or aligned to the right. This is useful if you want to align text with localized labels, so that the shape is always aligned correctly, regardless of the current language.
Rectangle shapes now support a custom corner radius, and all geometric shapes (Line, Rectangle, Ellipse and Polygon) now support a customizable stroke pattern.
Avelon Connect for ARM-based macOS and Windows
Avelon Connect is now available for macOS and Windows running on ARM-based devices (i.e. macOS with Apple silicon M-series and Windows with Qualcomm Snapdragon or Microsoft SQ1/SQ2/SQ3).
Bug fixes and improvements
- We’ve added Teltonika FMC230 to the list of supported GNSS trackers.
- We’ve expanded BACnet surrogate objects to also support OPC UA nodes and IoT Communication data points.
- In Objects on the Network, only the protocols that are supported by the respective Beetle model are shown in the **Protocol** dropdown.
- WebP images are now supported as wallpapers on the login screen. Images in the WebP format can have a considerably smaller file size than similar JPEG or PNG images.