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ViewIT Release Notes 2024-04-15-01
The Generator Run Report, operational at a number of industrial sites to facilitate compliance to state-level regulations, has been enhanced to list total run-time hours by run type. These reports now provide both field technicians and other users an
New Customer Support Portal is Live!
We are excited to be rolling out a new customer support portal! This transition is part of ongoing efforts to provide a more secure, collaborative, and streamlined journey. You’ll notice both a revamped knowledge base and new ticket system, allowing you
ViewIT Release Notes 2024.04.26.01
What’s New in ViewIT Friday, April 26, 2024 Our Business Connectivity efforts continually involve fine tuning the customer journey for our industrial clients who leverage the ViewIT platform for site and generator management across a growing number of
ViewIT Maintenance Planned for Friday 08:00 AM EDT
Friday morning, customers may notice that the ViewIT platform is slow or non responsive for just a few minutes while Generac's Industrial team conducts site maintenance. We do not anticipate an impact on equipment operations. Any events scheduled during
ViewIT Release Notes 2024.03.01.01
Release Date March 1, 2024 What's New in ViewIT The Industrial team is continually fine tuning performance as well as the customer journey for our industrial clients who leverage the platform for site and equipment monitoring across our North American
ViewIT Release Notes 2024.02.16.01
Release Date February 16, 2024 What's New in ViewIT The Industrial team is continually fine tuning performance as well as the customer journey for our industrial clients who leverage the platform for site and equipment monitoring across our North American
ViewIT Release Notes 2024.02.02.01
Release Date: February 2, 2024 What's New on ViewIT The Industrial team is continually fine tuning performance as well as the customer journey for our industrial clients who leverage the platform for site and equipment monitoring across our North American
IoT Platform Release 2024.01.16.01
Release Date: January 19, 2024 What's New in the IoT Platform More improvements have been made to the overall look and feel of the application. Performance improvements were implemented to retreive the equipment live data faster. Coming Soon A feature
IoT Platform Release 2024.01.03.02
Release Date: January 5, 2024 What's New in the IoT Platform Consistent Icons: In this release, we've standardized all Info and Delete icons across the entire application. This enhancement ensures a cohesive and unified user experience, promoting visual
IoT Platform Release 2023.12.18.01
Release Date: December 22, 2023 What's New in the IoT Platform Application Header & Footer The application name/logo "ViewIT" was added to the application header. An optional Generac logo was added to the footer. Site Deployment Check out the new Site
IoT Platform Release 2023.12.06.01
Release Date: December 7, 2023 What's New in the IoT Platform Site Deployment* Check out the new Site Deployment improvements. The connectivity check image is more descriptive and more intuitive. On the Site Deployment Validation screen, we changed the
IoT Platform Release 2023.11.08.01
Release Date: November 9, 2023 What's New in the IoT Platform Site Deployment We have a few improvements to the Site Deployment that reduces extra mouse clicks or having to navigtate away from the streamlined process to complete the gateway installation.
IoT Platform Release 2023.11.02.01
Release Date: November 3, 2023 We are thrilled to announce the release of the IoT Platform Version 2023.11.02.01! This latest version represents a significant milestone in our ongoing efforts to provide you with the most powerful, efficient, and user-friendly
IIoT Platform Release 2023.09.28.01
Release Date: September 29, 2023 Enhancement In the ViewIT Group Schedules, a message will be displayed when an end user is attempting to set a group schedule that contains a site, they do not have permission to. The message, "You do not have permission
IIoT Platform Release 2023.08.31.01
Release Date: September 1, 2023 Enhancement On the equipment live view, the data streaming functionality has been updated so that you only have to select the play button once every 5 minutes to see live data. Prior to the change it was required to select
Book Time with a Generac Industrial Connectivity Engineer
Generac is here to announce that we added a scheduling feature to the Pre-Installation Survey for the Blue Pillar Advanced Gateway deployments. This feature allows you to book a time with an Engineer to remotely support you through a deployment. Here’s
IIoT Platform Release 2023.07.20.01
Release Date: July 21, 2023 New Feature Equipment technical documents are available in the equipment Journal tab. The technical documents are referenced based on a defined device or device profile in the Generac AdminIT application setup by a Generac
CANCELED!! Scheduled Maintenance on June 22, 2023
Please be advised that there will be scheduled downtime across the IIoT network on Thursday, June 22, 2023 at 3:00 - 3:15 PM ET. As a result, you may experience problems accessing the Industrial Power Solutions website. We apologize for any inconvenience.
IIoT Platform Release 2023.05.30.05
Release Date: June 8, 2023 Improvements Main Map polling pause – a mechanism was added to the application to prevent API call stack-ups from a single User. Request Collapsing – a mechanism was added to ViewIT to prevent API call stack-ups caused by multiple
IIoT Platform Release 2023.05.11.01
Release Date: May 19, 2023 Enhancements Generac has a way to add technical documents to the equipment in ViewIT. Once a document has been added to the equipment library then it will be available in the equipment journal tab. An example is shown below.
IIoT Platform Release 2023.01.19
Release Date: January 20, 2023 Enhancements Customization The background color on the application header banner is configurable by a Generac Industrial Connectivity Team Member. For customer's that have a dedicated environment, if you would like to have
Blue Pillar IIoT Platform 2022.11.10
Release Date: November 11, 2022 Enhancements Blue Pillar Internal ManageIT Application A JSON tab has been added to display the selected Gateway's JSON configuration file (read-only). This will aid ManageIT Users when determining which GPIO input/output
Blue Pillar IIoT Platform 2022.10.27
Release Date: October 28, 2022 Enhancements A mechanism has been implemented to prevent orphaned alarms in ViewIT. Orphaned alarms occur when a specific tag, currently in the alarm state, is deleted in the Blue Pillar's ManageIT application. This would
Blue Pillar IIoT Platform 2022.10.13
Release Date: October 14, 2022 Enhancements The BluePIllar API Json return format has been corrected for consistency across all API calls. Customers utilizing the GetTagHistoryActualsV2 route will need to migrate to GetTagHistoryActualsV3 request.
Blue Pillar IIoT Platform 2022.09.29
Release Date: September 30, 2022 The enhancements and defect fixes in this release are for internal applications used by Blue Pillar Engineer's and the Customer Support Desk. Enhancements Adding a caching system to the Event Detection process for ViewIT.
Blue Pillar IIoT Platform 2022.09.15
Release Date: September 16, 2022 The enhancements and defect fixes in this release are for internal applications used by Blue Pillar Engineer's and the Customer Support Desk. Enhancements AdminIT, DesignIT, and ManageIT have all been completely alphabetized.
Blue Pillar IIoT Platform 2022.09.01.01
Release Date: September 6, 2022 The enhancements and defect fixes in this release are for internal applications used by Blue Pillar Engineer's and the Customer Support Desk. Enhancements ManageIT Gateway Swap feature switch will be turned on Gateway
Blue Pillar IIoT Platform 2021.08.18.01
Release Date: August 19, 2022 Enhancements A new "All Sites" option is available in the Group Schedules dropdown list of values. Defect Fixes In the group schedules history table the start and end times were not updating with the selected time zone.
Blue Pillar IIoT Platform 2022.08.04
Release Date: August, 5, 2022 Enhancements Blue Pillar Internal Applications ManageIT, can now bypass the gateway acknowledgement to see live data. DeployIT, can now bypass the gateway acknowledgement to see live data. Defect Fixes ViewIT Reports, in
Blue Pillar IIoT Platform 2022.07.21
Release Date: July 22, 2022 Enhancement All selection lists have been alphabetized for ease of use. The equipment live data stream performance has been enhanced to handle a larger number of data values in the data display.
Blue Pillar IIoT Platform 2022.06.28
Release Date: June 28, 2022 Enhancement Reports We have increased the search parameter for the event detection time by 1 minute in the Schedule Event Executor to ensure we are getting all the values to pick up the event reports and run them.
Blue Pillar IIoT Platform 2022.04.14
Release Date: April 14, 2022 New Features Reports The Power Factor attribute has been removed from the top of the NFPA 110 Generator Report. Added to the NFPA 110 Generator Report header is the Begin Time. This time provides the exact time the report
Blue Pillar IIoT Platform 2022.03.17.01
Release Date: March 18, 2022 New Features Reports For Users with Site and Equipment Admin permission level, you have the ability to delete past reports. The interval data detection method as been modified to be a configurable time period. The new setting
Blue Pillar IIoT Platform 2022.02.17.01 Release
This IIoT Platform release is for two of our Blue Pillar Engineering applications that are for internal use. DeployIT The issue with cloud-to-device messaging when the Gateway is being deployed to a Tenant hub has been resolved. This issue was preventing
Blue Pillar IIoT Platform 2021.10.28 Release
Release Date: October 29, 2021 Improvements Changed the journal attachment upload file size to 4 MB to coorespond with the Azure limits in blob storage. Added an error message if the User selects a journal attachment that is larger then 4 MB. Defect
Blue Pillar IIoT Platform 2021.10.14 Release
Release Date: October 15, 2021 New Features For Blue Pillar healthcare customers, we have a new NFPA 110 Compliance Report. Blue Pillar will contact each healthcare account to collect the necessary information to configure the report before it is available
Blue Pillar IIoT Platform 2021.09.30 Release
Release Date: October 1, 2021 New Features The equipment tag data is now listed in alphabetical order by tag name on the Equipment Report. A back-end update was made to the Report and Alarm Processor authentication was added. A back-end update was made
Blue Pillar IIoT Platform 2021.09.16 Release
Release Date: September 17, 2021 New Features Created a report type to honor multiple types of equipment reports. For NFPA Compliance Report = nfpa. The NFPA Compliance Report will be available in a future release. A new configuration to define the
Blue Pillar IIoT Platform 2021.09.02 Release
Release Date: September 3, 2021 New Features For Administrators, there is the ability to delete Users in the User Permissions. In the near future, there will be a new NFPA 110 Compliance report available for specific generators. To offer that report
Blue Pillar IIoT Platform 2021.08.05 Release
Release Date: August 6, 2021 New Features Journal Geolocation When a journal entry is added in the Journal tab then the application records the author's latitude and longitude coordinates and displays it as a new column with the journal entry. The first