Winter '25 Release

January 30, 2025

What’s New in the Winter ‘25 Release of Bolt Data Connect

In the latest release of Bolt Data Connect, we’re leveraging the powerful capabilities of Salesforce Agentforce and Einstein to give you new ways to communicate, control and understand how your connected assets are performing. This release also introduces new functionality to Automatically geo-code things along with a major enhancement to the Change Management Tools.

Connected Asset Agent

The new Connected Asset Agent feature revolutionizes the way you interact with connected assets in Bolt Data Connect. Using natural language in a chat window, you can ask the AI-powered bot, Sparky, questions about an asset’s performance based on IoT telemetry data and alert history, unlocking instant insights. 

Examples of questions you can ask the Connected Asset Agent: 

  • Has this solar panel reported a temperature below 32 F?
  • How many prints has Printer 0052 completed in the past week?
  • Does this drink machine need the Root Beer flavor cartridge replaced?
  • What was the average temperature of Coffee Roaster A3593 last week?
  • Has the MRI machine at Southside Hospital experienced any connectivity issues?

For Salesforce orgs using Agentforce, the Connected Asset Agent integrates easily via Agentforce Actions. This integration enables users to access real-time insights on asset performance directly within Agentforce, providing a richer user experience. 

Users can pick from several language models right out of the box:

Language model availability is subject to change. 

Change Management Tool 

Managing assets is now even easier with significant upgrades to the Change Management features in Bolt Data Connect. These improvements provide enhanced clarity, stability, and efficiency in tracking changes and deploying assets. They also streamline the syncing of Thing Type setups and configurations, making deployments faster and simpler.

Key enhancements:

  • Simplified Deployments to Production: The deployment process from sandbox to production environments is now more intuitive with a simplified user interface, saving time and reducing complexity.
  • Batch Syncing for Improved Efficiency: Previously, each Thing Type needed to be synced individually. Now, with just a single click, multiple Thing Types can be synced from Salesforce to the IoT Cloud at once, reducing sync time.
  • Comprehensive Audit Trail: Access, compare and restore to historical versions of your setups and configurations. This feature helps you debug issues and identify what changes have recently been made for full transparency. 

Batch Syncing for Improved Efficiency

 

Comprehensive Audit Trail

Automatic Geo-Coding 

Managing a large number of assets requires precise location tracking. With this release, assets are automatically geo-coded with latitude and longitude coordinates, calculated using the Address fields object. This eliminates the need to manually look up coordinates for individual asset locations, saving time and enabling admins to maximize the map view in the IoT Console for all assets.

Sensor Gauges

Built with Lightning Web Components (LWC), the new Sensor Gauge lets you easily create custom Screen Flows to display asset sensor values as gauges, progress bars or progress rings. Plus, ready-to-use templates are available to get started visualizing sensor values quickly.