ClearBlade Crab Product Release Adds Incremental Functionality

ClearBlade released version 2025.2.0 (Crab) of its IoT software. This version introduces major new environment management capabilities via the Operations Console.

Key Features of the Release

Operations Console

• Logging: The ClearBlade Operations Console now offers expanded functionality to provide better insights into environments. Users can filter and search ClearBlade logs across all nodes in an environment.

• Monitoring: A new Environment Monitoring page has been added, offering visual insights into overall health and performance. Metrics include CPU and memory usage, as well as ClearBlade-specific metrics such as MQTT clients connected, MQTT message rate, Code Service failures, and more.

• Application Instance Management: Enables IoT Enterprise environments to host the latest versions of IoT Core and Intelligent Assets, including full self-management of Intelligent Assets instances.

Intelligent Assets

• Intelligent Video Analytics Component: The Intelligent Video Analytics (IVA) component allows the use of any camera device to detect and track the movement of people, objects, or vehicles. IVA offers access to models for object detection, motion tracking, text interpretation, and more.

• Attribute Forecasting (Prediction) Component: This feature allows customers to forecast asset attributes, identify trends, and detect anomalies. Users can select forecast-enabled attributes and create real-time “twin” attributes that show predicted values based on historical data, time, and related inputs.

• Intelligent Assets Library: Developers building applications on top of the Intelligent Assets backend can now decouple from direct data calls and use the Intelligent Assets library as a dependency. This library ensures applications honor a safe API while still providing direct access to assets, rules, actions, and events running in the backend.

IoT Enterprise and Edge

• Azure Event Hub MQTT Connector: ClearBlade IoT Enterprise now supports native integration into Azure Event Hub, allowing easy configuration of any MQTT topic to automatically forward all messages to Azure Event Hub for further processing.

• Shared Access Signature (SAS) Token Authentication: MQTT devices can now authenticate with the ClearBlade IoT Enterprise and Edge MQTT Broker using a Shared Access Signature token, providing an easy migration path from Azure IoT to ClearBlade IoT Enterprise.

• Unrestricted Database Querying: Developers now have greater access to built-in PostgreSQL expressions and functions—such as Common Table Expressions, Window Functions, Intersects, Updates with Returning, and Truncate—when running raw queries from within a Code Service or via the Database Console.

• Improved Code Service Restart Handling: Previously, any Code Service configured to restart automatically would be blocked from restarting if it failed five times in quick succession due to issues like syntax errors in JavaScript. Now, Code Services use a customized exponential backoff process.

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