Build Dashboards Faster with ControlCom Connect's AI Dashboard Builder

Building dashboards in ControlCom Connect just got a whole lot faster. The new AI Dashboard Builder lets you describe what you want to see — in plain language — and turns it into a working dashboard. It searches your assets, finds the right variables, and lays everything out for you. A few questions, a click, and you're done.

What It Does

Instead of manually searching for data points and dragging widgets onto a canvas, the AI Dashboard Builder handles the heavy lifting. Tell it something like "Show me pump station pressure and flow for the last 24 hours" and it will:

• Search your connected assets and find the matching variables automatically

• Suggest the right widget types (gauges, trends, tables) based on the data

• Build a ready-to-use dashboard layout you can review and customize

• Ask follow-up questions if it needs to narrow things down

It works with any asset or variable already in your ControlCom Connect environment — PLCs, SCADA systems, remote I/O, sensors, and everything in between.

Who It's For

This feature is designed for two groups that spend the most time building dashboards: integrators setting up client systems, and plant managers who need custom views for their teams. Whether you're configuring dashboards across dozens of sites or building a morning overview screen for your operators, the AI Dashboard Builder saves you time.

Works Across Industries

The AI Dashboard Builder works with any data already flowing into ControlCom Connect. That means it's ready for the verticals you work in today:

• Water & Wastewater: Build operator screens for lift stations, treatment plants, and distribution systems in minutes.

• Manufacturing: Get production line dashboards up without waiting on engineering to configure every tag.

• Commercial & Industrial: Create building system overviews that pull from HVAC, power, and BMS data sources.

• Healthcare: Set up facility monitoring views that track critical environment variables across floors or campuses.

• OEM: Build standard dashboards for deployed equipment and customize them per customer.

How to Get Started

The AI Dashboard Builder is available now in ControlCom Connect. To try it out:

1. Open any project in ControlCom Connect

2. Click "New Dashboard" and select the AI Dashboard Builder option

3. Describe what you want to see

4. Review, adjust, and save

That's it. No training required. If you can describe what you need, you can build it.

Find and Replace Variables Across Your Dashboard

Updating variables one widget at a time slows you down. Now in ControlCom Connect, you can find and replace variables in bulk directly from the dashboard editor.

Select specific widgets to update just what you need, or select the entire dashboard to swap variables across every widget at once. This is especially useful when you're cloning dashboards for new sites, reassigning tags after a PLC migration, or standardizing naming conventions across your facility.

What used to take 20 clicks now takes two.

New Text Widget for Static or Dynamic Content

The dashboard editor now includes a text widget that renders static text or pulls dynamic values from a variable.

Use it to add section headers, display real-time status messages, show calculated values, or label dashboard regions for clearer navigation. Integrators can build more informative dashboards without workarounds, and plant managers get dashboards that communicate context—not just data.

Keyboard Shortcuts Now in the Menu

Every keyboard shortcut is now available as a button in the editor menu. If you prefer clicking over key combos—or just need a reminder of what's available—it's all visible and accessible in one place.

Introducing Triggers: Edge-Based Automation for Real-Time Control

We're excited to announce Triggers, a powerful new Edge Server capability that enables automated command execution based on real-time device conditions—without requiring cloud connectivity.

What Are Triggers?

Triggers allow you to define conditional logic that automatically executes commands when specific conditions are met. When a trigger condition transitions from false to true, the Edge Server immediately writes a configured value to a designated command variable.

Key Benefits

Instant Response Times
Execute critical actions at the edge with millisecond-level response times. No round-trip to the cloud required.

Reliable Automation
Triggers continue operating even during network outages, ensuring your critical automations never miss a beat.

Flexible Configuration

• Define complex boolean conditions using any device variable

• Configure different actions for condition ON vs OFF states

• Set optional re-execution intervals for continuous operation

• Enable or disable triggers without deleting them

Common Use Cases

• Safety Systems: Automatically shut down equipment when parameters exceed safe limits

• Process Control: Start pumps when tank levels drop, activate cooling when temperatures rise

• Equipment Protection: Trigger emergency stops on fault detection or overload conditions

• Heartbeat Signals: Send periodic keepalive signals while systems are running

What's New

Building dashboards in ControlCom Connect just got faster. This update brings keyboard shortcuts, multi-widget selection, and smoother navigation to the dashboard editor.

Keyboard Shortcuts

New keyboard shortcuts let you switch modes, copy widgets, and manage selections without reaching for your mouse. A Shortcuts button in the bottom-right corner of the editor shows all available commands.

Multi-Select Widgets

Select multiple widgets at once by holding Shift and clicking. Once selected, duplicate or delete your entire selection in one action—no more editing widgets one at a time.

Why It Matters

For integrators managing dozens of dashboards across sites, these updates mean less time clicking through menus and more time focused on what matters: keeping operations running. Small workflow improvements add up—especially when you're building dashboards for water systems, manufacturing floors, or distributed OEM equipment.

What's New

ControlCom Connect now lets you simulate data on any dashboard, even when your variables have no live values. You can see exactly how your final design will look with realistic data flowing through charts, gauges, and widgets.

No more guessing. No more waiting for equipment to come online.

How It Works

• Enable simulation mode: Toggle simulated data on any dashboard from the designer's Tools tab.

• See your layout in action: Widgets populate with representative values so you can evaluate spacing, thresholds, and visual balance

• Build demo accounts: Create polished, fully-functional demos for prospective clients or internal stakeholders without connecting to real assets

Why It Matters

For integrators building customer-facing dashboards, this means you can finalize designs before a single PLC is wired. For OEMs creating demo environments, you get a realistic showcase without shipping test equipment.

Whether you're pitching a new SCADA monitoring project or onboarding a water utility, simulated data helps you present a finished product—not a placeholder.

What's New

ControlCom Connect now lets you trust devices for multi-factor authentication. Once you verify a device, you won't be prompted for an MFA code every time you log in from that same browser or machine.

This is especially useful for integrators and plant managers who access the platform multiple times a week from the same secure workstation. You stay protected without the friction of repeated code entries.

How It Works

• Trust a device at login: After entering your MFA code, check the option to remember the device

• Manage trusted devices: View and remove trusted devices anytime from your account security settings

• Stay in control: Revoke trust instantly if a device is lost, shared, or no longer in use

Why It Matters

For teams managing remote monitoring across water/wastewater systems, manufacturing floors, or distributed commercial sites, logging in shouldn't slow you down. Trusted devices mean faster access to alarms, dashboards, and analytics—without compromising security.

The new Data Processors feature brings powerful real-time computation capabilities directly to the ControlCom Edge Server, version 2.7.0

Value Transforms modify incoming sensor data on-the-fly using mathematical expressions before publishing—ideal for unit conversions, scaling factors, or threshold-based type conversions. Each transform is ranked, allowing multiple operations to chain together for complex processing pipelines.

Virtual Variables take this a step further by enabling computed values that don't exist in the physical data source. By referencing multiple real variables in an expression (e.g., device_var1 + device_var2), you can create derived metrics like totals, averages, or conditional flags—calculated and published alongside raw data.

Both features support numeric, boolean, and string return types, with graceful error handling that logs issues without disrupting data flow. The result: faster, smarter edge intelligence.

Build custom integrations, dashboards, and automation on ControlCom Connect. Public access now available for developers and integrators.

Build What Your Customers Actually Need

ControlCom Connect is now open to developers and integrators who want to build on a proven IIoT platform.

Until now, access was limited to existing customers and partners. That changes today.

What's Available

• Full API access to device data, alerts, and historical trends

• Webhook support for real-time event triggers

• Documentation to help guide you through the configuration process

• White-label options for OEMs and system integrators

Who This Is For

If you're an integrator building remote monitoring solutions for water/wastewater, manufacturing, healthcare facilities, or commercial & industrial clients, you can now use ControlCom Connect as your foundation instead of starting from scratch.

Connect PLCs, SCADA systems, and sensors from any manufacturer. Build dashboards your customers will actually use. Ship faster.

Getting Started

1. Visit the pricing page to choose your plan

2. Create your developer account

3. Start building

No sales calls required. No waiting for approval.

We've given Dark Mode a fresh new look. Based on user feedback, we've moved away from our previous muted color palette to a higher-contrast theme designed for improved legibility and reduced eye strain. Whether you're looking at dashboards late into the evening or working in low-light environments, the updated Dark Mode delivers sharper text, clearer UI elements, and a more refined visual experience—without sacrificing the sleek aesthetic you expect from ControlCom Connect.

True Neutral Tones for Seamless Branding

We've also eliminated the blue shift that was present in our previous dark theme. The new color palette uses true neutral tones, ensuring your brand colors, charts, and data visualizations render accurately without unwanted color distortion. Your dashboards now look exactly as intended—letting your branding take center stage.

The Billing Explorer provides a comprehensive view of your usage metrics and associated costs, allowing you to monitor which variables are being tracked and consumed across your account. Data is aggregated on an hourly basis, giving you granular visibility into usage patterns and helping you identify usage.

Use the Billing Explorer to drill down into specific time periods, compare usage across different variables or devices, and gain actionable insights into your billing activity.

Track every change to your organization's resources with our new audit trail feature—perfect for security compliance, internal audits, and maintaining visibility across your team's actions.

Version 1.3.6

The Edge HMI now has the capability to dynamically refresh its view if there was a diagram or dashboard change on the ControlCom Connect platform. All it requires is for the Edge Server to be restarted to pull latest changes.

No need to close the Edge HMI application and relaunch it!

Overview

Explorer v2 is a professional-grade time-series data visualization and analysis tool designed for IoT device monitoring and operations. It provides real-time and historical data exploration with advanced statistical analysis, intelligent time-range management, and high-performance rendering capable of handling 10,000+ data points smoothly.

What's New

Raw Mode — See unprocessed sensor data for the last hour. Great for troubleshooting recent issues or checking what's happening right now. Limited to 16 variables max to keep things fast.

Aggregated Mode — View statistical summaries over any time range. Add the same variable multiple times with different aggregations (MIN, MAX, AVG, etc.) to compare patterns. No variable limits.

In Aggregated Mode, you can view data as MIN, MAX, AVG, SUM, Standard Deviation, Sample Count, Kurtosis, First Value, or Last Value. Add the same sensor multiple times with different aggregations to see the full picture — like plotting MIN, MAX, and AVG of a temperature sensor together to see its range.

Buckets have range requirements (e.g., 1-hour buckets need at least 24 hours of data). When you pick an incompatible bucket, Explorer suggests three ways to fix your time range: extend/shrink the end date, extend/shrink the start date, or center and adjust both. Click any suggestion and it applies the fix, switches buckets, and refreshes your data.

Renders 10,000+ data points smoothly without lag. Panels resize by dragging, charts zoom and pan, and hovering table columns highlights the chart series. Time jump buttons let you skip forward/backward by preset intervals. Export to CSV with one click.

How people use it

For troubleshooting, switch to Raw Mode and look at the last hour of unprocessed data. For monthly reports, use Aggregated Mode with 1-day buckets and plot MIN, MAX, and AVG together to show daily ranges. To find problem devices, compare the Standard Deviation across multiple devices — high variability usually means something's wrong.

Coming soon

Alarm overlays on the timeline, annotations for specific time periods, and side-by-side time range comparison.

Diagram editor now keeps your edit history. Undo and redo your changes without losing work.

Useful when you're making lots of small adjustments and want to revert without manually fixing everything.

Users can now enable SMS-based two-factor authentication (2FA) to add an extra layer of security to their accounts.