Release 4.6.0 - July 07, 2022

New in SIM for Things Portal and APIs

Enhanced reporting

• We have enhanced our reporting capabilities with a new graphical interface and three new reporting categories (SIM, Billing and Usage).  The data can be sorted and/or aggregated by more than 20 dimensions.

  • SIMs reports provide information on the different SIM States (Active, Suspended, Pre-Active, e.g.) over a period of time together with statistics on Events related to SIM (like SIM Link, SIM Activation or SIM State Change)

  • Billing reports provide information on Invoices sent to SFT Account. It shall allow to compare the evolution of Usage and Non-Usage charges over the period of time.

Notifications on volume-based data/NB-IoT counters

• The notifications will be enhanced with a new daily or monthly data/NB-IoT counter notifications. The data counter notifications can be consumption based (- >50%, >75%, >%95 , =100%) and threshold based.

Endpoint Network blacklisting

• This will allow to bar up to 25 networks on the endpoint without modifying the roaming profile.  This can be used for troubleshooting an endpoint that has issues on a certain operator without changing the roaming profile for all endpoints. 

  • View/Create/Modify/Delete endpoint Network blacklisting via the Endpoint diagnosis – view network coverage page.

  • Via the new endPointBlacklisting API, you can “add” and “remove” a list of networks from the endpoint’s blacklist

  • Via the new endPointCoverage API, you can get the coverage for a given endpoint

  • Feature is available for all Enterprises and visible by all (new and existing)

Advanced filtering for Endpoints and SIMs

• The new advanced search offers many different search fields on the Endpoints and SIM’s pages.

  • Main search fields on Endpoints: Combined Filter fields: IMSI, MSISDN, ICCID, Endpoint ID in one field called “Identifier”, Endpoint Name, Endpoint Tags, Endpoint State (Active-Inventory, Active, …), Billing Type (Post-paid/prepaid), Plans, Roaming Profile, Addon Plan, Dynamic Benefit, Value added feature, Barring (Yes/No), IMEI Locked status (Locked/Unlocked), Number of rows

  • Main search/sort fields on SIMs: Combined Filter fields: IMSI, MSISDN, ICCID, Endpoint ID in one field called “Identifier”, Endpoint Name, SIM State (Active-Inventory, Active, …), SIM Product/EAN, Form Factor, Number of Rows 

Endpoint tags API

• The endpoint API’s will support add, delete and update tags on endpoints

NB-IoT based reporting via the Endpoint statistics API

• The data and NB-IoT result will be separated. The NB-IoT result will also total cost, uplink, downlink, total volume.

Delete possibility of roaming profile

• When the privilege is assigned to the account, then the user can delete roaming profiles that are not assigned to any plan.

Base Plan API enhancement to attach the non-pooled MDB

• API part of the configuration and attachment to Base Plan of the non-pooled MDB feature in Createplan, ModifyPlan, QueryRateplan

Transfer SIM cards API from parent from/to child (only for resellers)

• Via the new bulkSimTransfer API, you can transfer a list SIM cards from the reseller level to child accounts.

Default APN for the default APN group can be customised (only for resellers)

• During onboarding of new enterprise child accounts, the default APN in the default APN group can be configured with the APN’s you want to expose to your enterprise child accounts.

Account time zone definition in UTC+ and - with city list (only for resellers)

• During onboarding of new enterprise child accounts, the customer time zone list has been improved to show the time zone UTC offset next to the city.

For API related changes and bug fixes you can check the API documentation here: https://api.sft.bics.com