The latest from Blockbax

Feature spotlight March 15, 2024 · 2 min read

Subject overview widget

We introduce the subject overview widget, to help further customize your dashboards.

Feature spotlight March 5, 2024 · 3 min read

Conditional Widget

We introduce the conditional widget, to help further customize your dashboards.

Platform highlights December 15, 2023 · 4 min read

Blockbax Platform highlights December

We love fast and frequent releases. New features are added on a daily basis, and this blog series will showcase our favorite new features. This blog highlights a some exciting new …

Platform highlights October 9, 2023 · 7 min read

Blockbax Platform highlights October

We love fast and frequent releases. New features are added on a daily basis, and this blog series will showcase our favorite new features. This blog highlights a some exciting new …

Feature spotlight September 12, 2023 · 2 min read

Integration Templates

We introduce open-source integration templates that make it easy to integrate devices with Blockbax.

Platform highlights July 23, 2023 · 6 min read

Blockbax Platform highlights July

We love fast and frequent releases. New features are added on a daily basis, and this blog series will showcase our favorite new features. This blog highlights a some exciting new …

Feature spotlight June 1, 2023 · 4 min read

Introducing the Repeater Widget

Recently, we added a new type of widget: the repeater widget. This blog post explains how this widget is going to significantly simplify the process of creating dashboards.

Feature spotlight May 2, 2023 · 3 min read

Calculated Metrics Revisited

Text support in calculated metrics allows you to easily deal with textual values in your computation. You can have arguments of type text, but also the output can be textual.

Press release January 30, 2023 · 5 min read

Press Release: Mendix Partnership

Blockbax joins Mendix’ Software & Technology Partner program to support Mendix Customers around the globe with a low-code approach to connect, visualize and analyze sensor & …

Platform highlights December 12, 2022 · 9 min read

Blockbax Platform highlights December

We love fast and frequent releases. New features are added on a daily basis, and this blog series will showcase our favorite new features. This blog highlights a some exciting new …

Feature spotlight September 22, 2022 · 3 min read

White labeling

Interested in experiencing the Blockbax platform as if it is your own? With our white labeling functionality, you can re-brand the Blockbax platform by using an own custom domain …

Feature spotlight August 26, 2022 · 3 min read

Configurable Y-Axes

Configurable Y-Axes in the explorer allow you to further enhance your data exploration, trend identification and more in the Explorer. With this newly released feature you can set …

Platform highlights March 15, 2022 · 7 min read

Blockbax Platform highlights March

We love fast and frequent releases. New features are added on a daily basis, and this blog series will showcase our favorite new features. This blog highlights a large new release …

The engineer of the future - part 3 March 9, 2022 · 5 min read

Low Code as a solution to the two biggest challenges of large-scale IoT implementations

In this blog we will review the two main approaches used by companies to start realising their ambitions with IoT applications. We see a lot of organisations make use of default …

The engineer of the future - part 2 January 26, 2022 · 4 min read

The top three lessons from successful IoT projects

Although a lot has been written about the potential value of adopting IoT, many companies are still struggling with deploying these type of solutions at scale. In this blog we …

The engineer of the future - part 1 December 22, 2021 · 4 min read

Three ways how digitization reduces the growing scarcity of technical workers

There is a big shortage of technical workers in the Netherlands. There are over 50.000 outstanding job offers which puts the technology sector head and shoulders above other …

Platform highlights December 13, 2021 · 5 min read

Blockbax Platform highlights December

We love fast and frequent releases. New features are added on a daily basis, and this blog series will showcase our favorite new features. This blog highlights a large new release …

Platform highlights October 8, 2021 · 7 min read

Blockbax Platform highlights October

We love fast and frequent releases. New features are added on a daily basis, and this blog series will showcase our favorite new features. This blog highlights conditionals, the …

Platform highlights August 6, 2021 · 6 min read

Blockbax Platform highlights August

We love fast and frequent releases. New features are added on a daily basis, and this blog series will showcase our favorite new features. This blog highlights dashboard-wide …

Platform highlights June 11, 2021 · 5 min read

Blockbax Platform highlights June

We love fast and frequent releases. New features are added on a daily basis, and this blog series will showcase our favorite new features. This blog highlights subject composition, …

Paradigm shift March 17, 2021 · 8 min read

Paradigm shift towards Low Code IoT platforms

We see lots of exciting things happening in the IoT space and see quite a few companies already benefitting at scale from insights from IoT data. The majority of companies however, …

Platform highlights February 19, 2021 · 4 min read

Blockbax Platform highlights February

We love fast data, but we also love fast and frequent releases. New features are added daily, and this blog series will showcase our favorite new features. This blog highlights map …

Platform highlights December 24, 2020 · 2 min read

Blockbax Platform highlights December

We love fast data, but we also love fast and frequent releases. New features are added daily, and this blog series will showcase our favorite new features. This blog highlights our …

Feature spotlight December 1, 2020 · 4 min read

Custom roles

We revisited core functionality in our platform to make roles fully configurable in a user-friendly way while the platform takes care of the complex permission handling. The …

Platform highlights August 26, 2020 · 2 min read

Blockbax Platform highlights August

We love fast data, but we also love fast and frequent releases. New features are added daily, and this blog series will showcase our favorite new features. This blog highlights: …

Feature spotlight August 12, 2020 · 4 min read

Revamped event triggers

We have revamped event triggers so you can apply fully-fledged business rules on your data without needing a single line of code. These business rules produce events that start a …

Platform highlights June 24, 2020 · 3 min read

Blockbax Platform highlights June

We love fast data, but we also love fast and frequent releases. New features are added daily, and this blog series will showcase our favorite new features. This blog highlights: …

Feature spotlight May 14, 2020 · 4 min read

Configurable dashboards

A dashboard can help you summarize your data with easy-to-understand, real-time data visuals based on measurements and events. It helps you to see the most important information at …

Monetize IoT April 23, 2020 · 7 min read

From sensor data to competitive advantage - Scattered business rules

We speak a lot with companies that are in the midst of exploring the future role of sensors and sensor data for their business. The potential benefits in terms of cost savings of …

Platform highlights April 14, 2020 · 4 min read

Blockbax Platform highlights April

We love fast data, but we also love fast and frequent releases. New features are added daily, and this blog series will showcase our favorite new features. This blog highlights: …

Feature spotlight March 13, 2020 · 3 min read

The Explorer

The Explorer is a user-friendly and quick way to view and compare measurements and events of different subjects. We recently redesigned this part of our web app to allow for more …

Platform highlights December 17, 2019 · 4 min read

Blockbax Platform highlights December

We love fast data, but we also love fast and frequent releases. New features are added daily, and this blog series will showcase our favorite new features. This blog highlights: …

Feature spotlight December 10, 2019 · 4 min read

Calculated metrics

A calculated metric is user defined real-time calculation based on other metrics and property values. This blog shows the power of this new feature by examining a virtual case. We …

Hands on with Buzzwords November 12, 2019 · 4 min read

Hands on with Industry 4.0 - Bridge OT and IT

Industry 4.0. is clouded by a lot of buzz. At Blockbax we like to demystify buzz, make it practical and get hands on. In this blog we continue the series with our view on building …

Platform highlights October 23, 2019 · 4 min read

Blockbax Platform highlights October

We love fast data, but we also love fast and frequent releases. New features are added daily, and this blog series will showcase our favorite new features. This blog highlights: …

Hands on with Buzzwords October 8, 2019 · 4 min read

Hands on with Industry 4.0 - Introduction

Industry 4.0. is clouded by a lot of buzz. At Blockbax we like to demystify buzz, make it practical and get hands on. In this first blog we are going to introduce the topic and …

Platform highlights September 24, 2019 · 3 min read

Blockbax Platform highlights September

We love fast data, but we also love fast and frequent releases. New features are added daily, and this blog series will showcase our favorite new features. This blog highlights: …

Platform highlights July 30, 2019 · 4 min read

Blockbax Platform highlights July

We love fast data, but we also love fast and frequent releases. New features are added daily, and this blog series will showcase our favorite new features. This is the first blog …

Hands on with Buzzwords June 28, 2019 · 7 min read

Hands on with IoT, edge computing and cloud computing - From data to action

Information is more perishable than ever. The benefits of sensor data will be lost if the information is not discovered and acted on quickly enough. In this blog we will look at …

Hands on with Buzzwords May 9, 2019 · 10 min read

Hands on with IoT, edge computing and cloud computing - From edge to cloud

Sending sensor data from the edge to the cloud isn't an easy task. In this blog I will describe the easiest way to connect sensors and show you how easy it is to send data from a …

Hands on with Buzzwords April 2, 2019 · 5 min read

Hands on with IoT, edge computing and cloud computing - Introduction

Edge computing and cloud computing both have their own advantages and disadvantages but with the rise of IoT there might be a better way to store, manage and process data by …