Edge Server Updates

Gateway OS & Edge Management

ControlCom Connect now includes a significantly upgraded Gateway OS interface, providing plant managers and integrators with more direct control over edge hardware for remote monitoring. This update simplifies how you configure network identities and manage field deployments across manufacturing or water/wastewater sites.

• Expanded Networking: Configure DNS settings and manage OpenVPN tunnels through a dedicated user interface.
• Real-Time Terminal: Access a live terminal directly within the platform for immediate troubleshooting and device commands.
• System Control: Manage SSH keys, user passwords, and system clock settings for your gateways in one place.

Secure Access & User Management

Managing your organization and device security is faster with new administrative workflows.

• Google SSO: Log in to the admin portal using your Google account to simplify access while maintaining high security.
• Location-Based Access: Assign users to specific facility locations to streamline their view and improve data security across different sites.
• Device Certificates: View, create, and provision device certificates within the platform. A new step-up challenge workflow adds an extra layer of security for critical device operations.

Energy Management & Reporting

Updates to the Energy Management module offer more granular insights for commercial and industrial facilities.

• Load Factor Visualization: Enhanced reporting for load factor provides clearer data on energy demand and system efficiency.
• Utility Bill Verification: Run dry runs of bill reports to verify accuracy before processing and benefit from automatic detection of overlapping entries.
• Relative Dates: Platform events now use relative timestamps (e.g., "5 minutes ago") for quicker scannability during site audits.

Performance Gains

Diagrams and HMI screens now load more efficiently, reducing latency when viewing live data. To help optimize complex SCADA views, you can now monitor memory usage for individual diagrams. Additionally, diagram images can now automatically adapt to light and dark mode preferences.

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

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.