Mobile On-call Alerting for Crosser

Mobile App | Push, SMS text, voice calls | Duty Scheduling and more

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Mobile Alerts

Adds real-time alert notifications by push, text and voice calls incl. escalations and status updates

Scheduling

Integrated on-call duty and shift scheduling allows for automated routing of alerts to the right people at the right time

Mobile App

User-friendly mobile app for Android and iPhone provides incident and alert management on-the-go

Integration

Integrates with a few mouse-clicks into Crosser

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Mobile alerting with tracking & escalation for Crosser

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Why SIGNL4

Crosser is a Swedish software company with installations in over 20 different countries. They offer a Low-Code software platform for Streaming Analytics, Automation and Integration for any Edge, On-premise or Cloud. The Crosser Platform enables real-time processing of streaming, event-driven or batch data for Industrial IoT and Intelligent Workflows. The solution is built to fight complexity with simplicity through the Crosser Flow Studio, the visual design tool that enables teams to innovate faster than ever without developers. The software is ideally suited for Enterprise customers of various industries and applications, including Edge Analytics, Industrial Connectivity, Industry 4.0, Streaming Analytics, Hybrid Integration and Intelligent Workflows.

Pairing this powerful platform with SIGNL4 can enhance your daily operations with an extension to your mobile team in the field or on the shop floor.

How it Works

SIGNL4 is available natively in Crosser. All it takes to pair Crosser and SIGNL4 the SIGNL4 action in Crosser Cloud that calls the SIGNL4 webhook to trigger the alert.

 Benefits and Value-Add

  • Enables an instant response to critical alerts anywhere, anytime
  • Reliable and persistent alerting via mobile push, text and voice calls
  • Targeted mobile notifications with response tracking and automated escalations
  • Communicate within an alert to address a particular problem
  • Real-time cross-team transparency on alert status and ownership on mobile devices
  • Mobile app for Android and iPhone to conveniently manage alerts from anywhere
  • On-call scheduling to alert the right people at the right time
  • SIGNL4 is available as native integration in Crosser
  • if Crosser detects that the problem is OK again the respective alert in SIGNL4 can be closed automatically

Scenarios

  • Industrial IoT
  • Industry 4.0
  • IoT Service Alerting
  • IoT Device Management
  • Finance, Security, IT, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Utility, Oil and Gas, Agriculture, etc.

Integration Type

  • Agentless, no-code integration
  • Built-in SIGNL4 Publisher
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Events are sent to SIGNL4

Event categorization, routing and automated delivery based on availability, duty schedules, etc.

Persistent Notifications by push, text and voice call with Tracking, Escalation and Confirmation to Staff on Duty

Integration with Crosser

In our example we create a sample flow that receives OPC UA data, processes them and then generates an alert in SIGNL4. SIGNL4 is a mobile alert notification app for powerful alerting, alert management and mobile assignment of work items. Get the app at https://www.signl4.com.

In order to show the concept in a simplified way we also use a data generator that is capable to generate sample data. This makes it easy to simulate alerts.

Prerequisites

A SIGNL4 (https://www.signl4.com) account

A Crosser (https://crosser.io) account

Crosser-Workflow

Logon to the Crosser portal and go to Flows. You can create or use your own flow as you like. In our case we have also added a Data Generator action. This one simulates random event data in certain intervals and is a good way for testing.

The next step in the flow is the aggregation. This is optional but since it is a powerful feature we show it here. The idea is to read events over a certain period of time and then aggregate the data. In our case we are interested in the average temperature.

The Range Filter allows us to trigger alert for a certain temperature range and close the alert again for another range.

Finally, add the SIGNL4 Publisher. In the Credentials you add your SIGNL4 team secret as API Key. Title and Message can contain the alert information.

To close an alert you have to use the same ExternalID with which the alarm was created and as status you enter “resolved”.

That’s it and now your SIGNL4 team will receive alerts whenever Crosser detects a critical event.

 

Tips & Tricks

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Alert Optimization

SIGNL4 can further increase the visibility of alerts through its Signals and Services categories. Augmenting the color and icon of alerts will provide more relevant information at a glance without having to open the alert. You can also augment ticket alerts with maps or change the subject or message to a more comprehensible content.

Alert categories in SIGNL4 also allow to group ticket alerts and even to route those ticket notifications to your staff based on skills or other criteria. Screenshots show how to override text, colors and titles are triggered by keywords set within the mobile app.

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