IMAGINE A PLACE…
…where you can belong to an IoT Creators community.
Where you and all fellow creators can chat about the internet of things.
A place that makes it easy to find likeminded people, share knowledge, get support and join events together.
You can join our discord here: https://discord.gg/NuMT9T7Zr3

Dear IoT Friends,

are you interested in tools and services to validate your end-to-end solution setup?
Remember, what computer-aided engineering was for automotive 15 years ago? We wouldn’t have cars driving autonomously if we hadn’t done CAE. We can offer you our IoT Solution Optimizer tool as a simulator for your project. You can get a lot of insights in the expected performance of your solution already BEFORE building the first prototypes!
iotcreators.iotsolutionoptimizer.com/Services

IoT Solution Optimizer is about:

• Leveraging virtual twin technology to accelerate IoT product design for performance

• Comparing implementation choices in seconds and assessing optimization recommendations

• Take hardware components off the shelf --> model your specific use case --> see battery lifetime

Please share your feedback with us:

• if you like thie idea of a virtual twin or not

• what is your use case

• which problem do you want to solve

Free giveaway: We offer you two-week-test licenses for this tool and we will hand these out to the first 20 users who will share their thoughts in the comment section
Thanks,
Uta

If all the AT commands are way too hard to remember for you and if you struggle with finding quickly what you need to make your device talk, then we’ve got something for you: good old cheat sheets.
Whatever the reason is that you read this forum post:

• if you go mad about the fact that all modules - even from one vendor - use a different AT command set
• if Google doesn’t help you as fast as you wish
• if you want to outperform your fellow team members
• if you loved secret cheating in school anyway and want to revive the feeling of (not) being cought
• or if you simply want to save time

make use of this section of our doclib: AT command cheat sheets and please let us know whether it is helpful for you or not .

The GSMA offers a “Mobile IoT Deployment Map”. You can click on a country and see various information per technology type e.g. which operator deployed that network type and even URL’s of the operators’ maps for that country (if the MNO made it available). GSMA is improving and enhancing it continuously.

@Michal-Szwajdo our UDP adapter seems to have received your messages but we need to look closer on that. We’ll come back to you on Monday!

Hi MeneerJacco,
I don’t know the exact answer for you, I apologise. But didn’t want to let you waiting either. May I provide you with a link for further technical deep-dive on the matter: please look at our technology cards here

You will find a lot of knowledge around power saving features, just open the required section

In case that didn’t help you please reach out again and I’m gonna find someone on our end on Monday.
Have a nice weekend,
Uta

eDRX for the NB-IoT Network of Deutsche Telekom in Germany has now been officially launched!

@magnatron I created the page in our doclib. Thanks for the hint
Bulk Registration of Devices

@Inter-Act if you work on automatic mode, the modem would scan through the whole PLMN until it finds a network. This can take 10 mins or more even on NB-IoT. And Telekom DE is in the PLMN. What is the error code?

Release Notes - IoT Creators - Version 1.0.19 - Released 26.8.2021
Bugs
* [IC-5267] - Log-Out Loop
* [IC-5273] - Remove process labels (when registering/during login)
* [IC-5277] - Fixing the Project Overview Menu Item
* [IC-5276] - Fixing the address forms in the ordering process

New Features
* [IC-5137] - MQTT: As a user I want to register MQTT devices
* [IC-5258] - MQTT: Popup window for editing MQTT settings
* [IC-5227] - Orders: Integrate nuSIM hardware starterkit in ordering process
* [IC-5268] - NodeBB: Users should be able to edit or delete their own forum posts

Improvements
* [IC-5272] - Portal: Replace SIMCARD navigation item in sidebar
* [IC-5269] - Portal: Show device id in the text of 2 popup dialog windows
* [IC-5199] - Portal: Add download button to Device-Upload-Error screen (modal)
* [IC-5152] - Portal: Show number of registered users and registered devices on FE
* [IC-5253] - Portal: Banner on project page for notifications
* [IC-5254] - Invoice: Translate Invoicing Template for Hardware Orders to English

Release Notes - IoT Creators - Version 1.0.39 - Released 28.08.2022
Bug
* [IC-5450] - Shows memberId instead of names in forum and “undefined” on web page
* [IC-5451] - “Create account” button active even if password is not fulfilling the minimum requirements
* [IC-5471] - Closed projects are shown longer than 60 days - corrected text

Story
* [IC-5412] - [Account activation] Add waiting time before “re-sending” the account activation email
* [IC-5425, IC-5429, IC-5430] - [ORDER FLOW] Design & content changes, improved sequence of the screens
* [IC-5439] - improved IMEI validation for device registration
* [IC-5444] - preparation for upcoming feature of uplink message store
* [IC-5452] - Replace bearer type logos (NB-IoT/LTE-M) in project and show the selected “data delivery” model instead
* [IC-5454] - Implementation of FOTA upload GUI in our portal for paid plans
* [IC-5472] - Send email verification when user changes email to new email

Hi @Daan2021,
the IoT creators overview is unfortunately NOT applicable for the T-Mobile NL Easy Connect SIM card.
You can order a free “Starterkit” SIM on iotcreators.com to get connectivity in all the countries you found on our roaming page in the docs.

I looked at the T-Mobile NL Easy Connect product spec and I think the correct one is this here, the LPWA version (low power wide area) TechnischeGegevens-LOW-POWER-IoT-EasyConnect.pdf
I assume you ordered the LPWA SIM, because with the other you’ll only get 2G/3G/4G/LTE-M.
There they write about NB-IoT roaming: “NB-IoT Niet beschikbaar NB-IoT internationale roaming wordt in deze 9 landen ondersteund: Nederland, Duitsland,
Griekenland, Hongarije, Kroatië, Oostenrijk, Polen, Slowakije, Tsjechië. Nationale en internationale roaming voor NB-IoT is in ontwikkeling. Kijk regelmatig op onze website voor updates”

@Jeroen-van-Bussel of course you can work on automatic mode, the modem would scan through the whole PLMN list until it finds a network. This can take a while and I agree, it’s the only thing that makes sense for devices in non-static use cases.

Release Notes - IoT Creators - Version 1.0.38 - Released 17.06.2022
Bug
* [IC-5436] - Show device details - protocol is null
* [IC-5443] - no usage data for “public internet” project with several devices

Improvement
* [IC-5415] - [Sign-Up] Design changes
* [IC-5418] - [Sign-Up] Skip selecting a community name
* [IC-5420] - [Sign-Up] Simplify marketing opt-in to one checkbox
* [IC-5422] - [Account activation] Design changes
* [IC-5423] - [Account activation] Activation Code
* [IC-5424] - [Account activation] Help section
* [IC-5431] - Display payload in plain text in device list

**Maintenance window: 05.07.2022, 09:00 to 13:00 CEST
There will be a short downtime of appr. 10 minutes at around 10 am.

Service Interruption:
The device communication will be interrupted during this downtime. We try to find a solution to avoid message loss for your devices but be prepared that you might lose some uplink packages during these 10 minutes.

Please contact me/us in case you’ve got any questions.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

Release Notes - IoT Creators - Version 1.0.37 - Released 01.06.2022
Bug
* [IC-5434] - Invoice Template - one Dutch translation missing
* [IC-5442] - Cannot invite other project members to my project

Improvement
* [IC-5427] - [STARTERKIT ORDER - TAB 1] Tab Structure - rename the tab to “Data Delivery”
* [IC-5428] - [STARTERKIT ORDER - TAB 1] Content & Design - change the graphics to make the difference between 2 project types clearer (*)

(*) Explanation:
Former “NB-IoT” project is renamed to “Via webhooks and off-the-internet (recommended)”
Former “LTE-M” project is renamed to “Via the public internet (only for testing purposes)”
The functionality and features didn’t change, just the name. Both projects work with all our SIM cards and with either NB-IoT or LTE-M. The difference is described in the chart and bullet points in the “Data Delivery” section of the order process. Read more in our docs

Release Notes - IoT Creators - Version 1.0.34 - Released 09.05.2022
Bug
* [IC-5348] - Missing achievements for “Hello World”
* [IC-5388] - After creation of new project ALWAYS the “Devices” tab is missing in “Projects”
* [IC-5390] - Phone number needs to be provided to logistics provider
* [IC-5401] - flicker in UI in project details (chart with device numbers)
* [IC-5433] - forum: duplicate usernames

Improvement
* [IC-4966] - As a user I want to download my invoice as PDF from the Invoice Tab in the Frontend
* [IC-5408] - Add Slovenia to list of countries we ship to
* [IC-5409] - Remove nuSIM from order flow

IMAGINE A PLACE…
…where you can belong to an IoT Creators community.
Where you and all fellow creators can chat about the internet of things.
A place that makes it easy to find likeminded people, share knowledge, get support and join events together.
You can join our discord here: https://discord.gg/NuMT9T7Zr3

Deutsche Telekom will upgrade their NB-IoT platform in order to proactively increase the capacity and make it more scalable and robust for the future. Doing this, we benefit from better feature set (like using NB-IoT and LTE-M traffic through the same VPN tunnel) as well as security hardening.
The migration of our APN “cdp.iot.t-mobile.nl” to the new platform will be performed by the Deutsche Telekom Core Network team automatically. It does not require any activity from your side, so there is no need for new configuration of your IoT solution or anything alike.

Maintenance window:
May 10th, 2022 at 4:00 am CEST
May 17th, 2022 at 4:00 am CEST

Service Interruption:
There will be a service interruption for approx. 45 minutes during the night. The devices will lose the PDP connection and need to create a new IP session at the end of the maintenance window. After the new platform starts operation, the devices will re-login to the network automatically and will get a new IP address.

Experience from other customers:
This maintenance work was already performed for the customers located in Germany. We didn’t receive incident reports related to this change. That’s why we’re optimistic that it will run smoothly for the IoT Creators APN as well.

Please contact me/us in case you’ve got any questions or doubts and concerns.

We apologize for the inconvenience and are optimistic that you’ll benefit in the future from that change.

Release Notes - IoT Creators - Version 1.0.33 - Released 12.04.2022
Bug
* [IC-5391] - UI cosmetic error project page
* [IC-5395] - Impossible to change post code
* [IC-5396] - Invoices for one contract not visible
* [IC-5397] - [object Object] displayed in the UI after click on registration link in email