What's new in the Willow App
Sidebar Navigation
The new Willow App Sidebar enhances navigation, offering a more intuitive and efficient way to move between sections. It is built to provide consistent, easy access to key areas of the Willow App application without disrupting the workflow. By keeping the Sidebar visible and quickly accessible, we reduce the cognitive load on users and improve wayfinding by clearly indicating a user's current location within the app. Users can expand the Sidebar to display full section names or collapse it to save space while retaining easy access to icons for quick navigation.
Additionally, "Search and Explore" has been divided into two dedicated sections, Twins and Files, allowing faster access to specific content.
The Sidebar is fully mobile-responsive. It transitions into a compact menu accessible from the title bar, preserving screen space when viewing the Willow App on smaller devices.
Building Home Page
The redesigned Willow Building Homepage offers a comprehensive, all-in-one view of building operations and performance within the Willow App. It features a user-friendly interface that consolidates essential building information, customizable KPIs, and the latest updates on insights and tickets. The home page also features the building's 3D model visually, highlighting areas of the building that need attention, making it easier to identify and prioritize effective action.
Built with flexibility in mind, the homepage allows users to customize their homepage by adding or removing widgets and rearranging the layout. This ensures that users can focus on what's most important to them first. Select widgets can also be customized further, allowing a user to allow their home page to focus on their most important metrics.
The new home page is also fully mobile-responsive, allowing access across all devices for continuous monitoring and management of the building anytime and from anywhere.
More details here
Time Series Update
The redesigned Time Series UI provides a streamlined and more intuitive experience while also delivering performance enhancements with the shift to a new data visualization technology.
While maintaining all existing features, several UI and UX improvements have been introduced to enhance usability. A new card-based layout, improved labelling, and clearer legends make it easier to understand the data at a glance. The UI now supports expanded functionality on tablet devices, introducing pinch-to-zoom and swipe-to-pan gestures.
A key feature of this update is the inclusion of new data quality indicators, allowing users to quickly identify periods where data is missing or when sensor values fall outside of expected operating ranges. These indicators provide critical insights into data quality, aiding investigation and decision-making processes.
This refreshed approach to the Time Series UI lays the groundwork for further future enhancements, ensuring continued improvement in both performance and user experience.
More details here
In-App Notifications
The new in-app notifications feature enhances user experience with a bell icon that serves as the hub for all notifications. The bell displays the count of new notifications since your last visit.
Clicking the bell icon opens a notifications window, where unread notifications are marked with purple dots. To mark a notification as read without opening it, simply click the purple dot. Opening a notification will also clear the dot automatically.
The notifications window can display up to 20 notifications at a time. To view more, click the “View All” button at the top right corner.
Navigating away from the notifications window resets the number on the bell icon, even if there are still unread notifications. This ensures you always have a clear view of new updates.
This feature keeps you informed and makes managing notifications straightforward and efficient. Enjoy staying up-to-date with the latest updates and alerts!
More details here
Copilot Preview for Diagnostics
When reviewing insights, lean more about failing diagnostics with Willow’s preview of a Generative AI powered Copilot.
A toast notification provides a nudge and when you click on Open Copilot. See bottom right corner in figure below.
Selecting to Open Copilot provides you immediate access to troubleshooting information. Copilot uses docs uploaded in your Willow instance:
The first question is automatically populated with details of the failing diagnostic and the response is provided for your review. From here on, you can carry forward a chain of thought conversation to explore how to root cause and resolve the problem.
Note that Copilot Preview is currently enabled for select audiences. Please reach out to Willow Support if you have any questions.
What's new in data?
Willow API v3
The Willow API has launched a major revision from v2 to v3. The new version has been rewritten from the ground up to offer a developer experience that more closely matches Willow's underlying core data entities in the knowledge graph, time series data, and insights that users have been interacting with in the Willow App.
What's changed?
The Willow v2 APIs had specific endpoints for concepts such as Sites, Assets, Equipment, Devices, and Points. These no longer exist in the new Willow v3 APIs. Instead, developers can use the combination of Models and Twins endpoints to fetch everything they need from the knowledge graph which includes those above-mentioned concepts but also many more from the 3,000+ models in the Willow ontology.
The Willow v2 APIs also had separate endpoints named Telemetry, Live Data, and Trend Logs. These had evolved individually overtime and caused confusion around which to use when. These no longer exist in the new Willow v3 APIs, Instead, there is a single Time Series endpoint to insert and retrieve time series data.
Developer Portal
The new Willow Developer Portal accompanies the new v3 APIs to help developers get familiar with the new API Reference and how to get started fetching data and building applications.
To date, customers have had to request API credentials from their Willow account team. Now, customers can self-provision credentials for members of their organization or their partners. They can control expirations and rotate their secrets all from the same location. The new developer portal inclues a guide to walk through this process.
View the new Developer Portal and the Willow v3 API Reference here.