IBM Maximo Visual Inspection
Business
Free
IBM Maximo Visual Inspection app is designed to bring the capabilities of IBM Maximo Visual Inspection server to the edge and rapidly enable visual inspections, whether devices are mounted in fixed locations or are hand-held. It takes complex computer vision models developed on IBM Maximo Visual Inspection server, the end-to-end, point-and-click deep-learning platform, and performs inferencing using an iOS/iPadOS device and its integrated camera.
The app can even run Core ML models exported from IBM Maximo Visual Inspection server, which enables local inferencing on-device without requiring network connectivity.
Specifically, IBM Maximo Visual Inspection app works by:
• Leveraging object detection and image classification models trained on IBM Maximo Visual Inspection server for remote inferencing or exported to Core ML for local inferencing
• Monitoring inspection performance down to each device and its location via an integrated reporting dashboard when multiple devices have been deployed
• Providing remote management and configuration of IBM Maximo Visual Inspection apps running on remote devices using an integrated supervisor capability
• Empowering individuals within enterprises to take action in real-time by leveraging IBM Maximo Visual Inspection app to determine if defects, damage or other anomalies exist
• Delivering instant, actionable notifications to recipients via SMS as well as to other systems by using MQTT
more • Heartbeat messages now correctly include custom parameters
1.5.13 24 Jul
• MDM configurable dataset type (training or inspection)
• Image Filters for enhancing image quality for inspection
• Read only configuration for specific custom parameters as defined via MDM
• Visual Trigger now supports constraining to a region of interest in order for detected objects to be considered before firing the inspection
• Remote manager now supports searching app version
• Inspection metadata now includes initial upload attempt timestamp for determining original inspection time in case of server outages
• Text inspections supports defining replacement of chars that OCR may misread
• Bug fixes for expected count when used with pipeline
• Heartbeat now identifies devices that have procedure templates
1.5.12 23 Jul
• MDM configurable dataset type (training or inspection)
• Image Filters for enhancing image quality for inspection
• Read only configuration for specific custom parameters as defined via MDM
• Visual Trigger now supports constraining to a region of interest in order for detected objects to be considered before firing the inspection
• Remote manager now supports searching app version
• Inspection metadata now includes initial upload attempt timestamp for determining original inspection time in case of server outages
• Text inspections supports defining replacement of chars that OCR may misread
• Bug fixes for expected count when used with pipeline
• Heartbeat now identifies devices that have procedure templates
1.5.11 22 Jul
• New bulk management capability to control pending uploads across remote devices, including pause, resume and delete
• Invalid MQTT triggers now generate an error message on a specific topic: ibmvi/error/location/device/invalidtrigger
• Ability to customize the default reference used during Visual and Barcode/QR Code/OCR triggers when no actual reference is buffered
• Support for custom exposure and focus with Highest Resolution video preset
1.5.10 18/11/2025
• Order validation to ensure objects are laid out according to the defined pattern
• Improved results view for inspection results, including new order validation results tab
• Inspection results now contain additional EXIF metadata
• Improved error recovery for single app mode
• App Transport Security (ATS) is now enabled for safer data transmission
1.5.9 10/09/2025
• Expected count rules now factor in pipeline results where a label sent to a pipeline and fails through that additional inspection will not be counted as an object
• Text inspections support regular expression based replacement of characters passed in the reference as well as any characters in text extracted from the image
• When the device is exclusively in single app mode, a new error recovery settings section has been introduced to specifically handle single app mode exceptions
1.5.8 05/06/2025
• Special characters allowed in Inspection name
1.5.7 05/05/2025
• Enhanced model caching and model loading error recovery
• Local timezone added in image metadata
• UX improvements for text inspections
1.5.6 24/04/2025
• Ability to secure access to devices engaged in auto capture with a passcode
• Support for stand alone text inspections in procedures
• Support for dynamically setting expected count values in an inspection via an extended MQTT Take Photo message
• Introducing timer inspections that can continually capture photos at a specified interval in seconds
• Search in model selection
• MQTT configuration to enable Server Name Identification (SNI)
• Configurable MQTT connection timeout
• Minor bug fixes
1.5.5 03/03/2025
• Ability to secure access to devices engaged in auto capture with a passcode
• Support for stand alone text inspections in procedures
• Support for dynamically setting expected count values in an inspection via an extended MQTT Take Photo message
• Introducing timer inspections that can continually capture photos at a specified interval in seconds
• Search in model selection
• MQTT configuration to enable Server Name Identification (SNI)
• Configurable MQTT connection timeout
1.5.4 24/02/2025
• Introducing a unique handheld mode that allows Inspection Procedures to be performed as a sequence of steps
• Each step can have an inspection assigned along with an optional Visual Trigger
• Fine grained controls for the camera and zoom levels per step
• The unique reference or “context” for the Inspection Procedure can be manually entered, scanned or sent via MQTT for automatic creation
• Business rules are defined in procedure templates from which users can create procedure instances
• The individual Inspections assigned to steps retain their settings including text inspection rules and project/dataset configuration for image uploads
• MQTT results are published at the completion of each step as well as a consolidated document at the end of the entire Inspection Procedure
1.5.3 19/11/2024
• Inspections now support analyzing text using the iOS OCR capability (including regular text, Barcodes and QR Codes)
• The new text-based business rules can run simultaneously alongside the existing AI inspection rules to determine pass or fail
• Inspections can be cloned between devices, both local and remote
• Ability to search for projects and datasets in inspection editor via the navigation bar
1.5.2 03/09/2024
• Support for Video Inspections in addition to the existing Photo Inspections
• Client ID configuration for MQTT connections now supports wildcard substitutions
• On-Demand Visual Trigger enables it to be activated when MQTT trigger is received and to cease after performing inspection
• Minor bug fixes
1.5.1 28/06/2024
• Major performance enhancements including unlimited depth AI pipeline support
1.5.0 23/04/2024
• Support for inspection results to be displayed with a larger perspective on external displays, when screen is mirrored (via AirPlay or HDMI cable accessory)
• Introduces a High Resolution Auto Capture setting which removes camera shutter lag when using Visual Triggers (Note: custom exposure is not supported on this new mode)
1.4.10 22/03/2024
• Buffer image captured using Visual Trigger when relaying to secondary device
1.4.9 08/02/2024
• Visual Trigger support with custom exposure and custom focus by keeping video stream in continuous auto focus and exposure
• Enhanced UX for custom exposure and custom lens position (focus)
• An additional camera selection option when custom focus and/or custom exposure is selected
• Download progress of models on remote devices
• Support for ultra wide cameras in dual camera devices
• Zoom on dashboard images
• Publish of inspections from inspection details
• Ability to search in remote devices list based on device name, location name and inspections
• Ability to return a preview of the shot from a remote device
• Minor bug fixes
1.4.8 08/12/2023
• Ability to identify licensed client devices connected to the MQTT broker
1.4.7 03/08/2023
• Remote backup and restore options
• New app settings to control primary inspection uploads
• More control for managing pipeline uploads
• New app settings to manage exposure duration and ISO
• Human privacy in images, blurring out humans in collection images and blacking out areas outside of bounding boxes in inference images
1.4.6 12/06/2023
• Minor bug fixes
1.4.5 15/05/2023
• New settings to control buffering of take photo messages for visual trigger
• Image trigger delay now works with external triggers too
• Backup and restore
1.4.4 25/04/2023
• Take photo message caching for visual trigger until a new take photo message is received
• Image metadata extraction
• Customization options for MQTT upload result topic and its content
• Minor bug fixes
1.4.3 28/03/2023
• Inbound trigger Select Transform templates can now be defined
• Wide angle and telephoto lens support on Pro devices
• Expected Count rules now support sending the detected label to a secondary inspection
• MDM configuration for all App Settings
• Global Settings can be viewed (not edited) when connected to a remote device
• MQTTClientId prefix added and available in heartbeat along with the MQTT username
• Tiny YoloV3 support
• Max supported bounding boxes limit increased to 100
• Deprecated MQTT subscribe topics for: customHeartbeatTemplate and customNotificationTemplate. All custom templates can only be provided by defining in the app or through MDM
• Additional takephoto message can now be subscribed under MQTT Configure Topics in Global Settings
1.4.2 14/10/2022
• Visual trigger enhancement to support MQTT trigger buffering
1.4.1 28/07/2022
• Updated license flow
• Model sharing across inspections once they are downloaded with new build
• Advanced pipeline controls
• Threshold rules merging when selecting a new model with the same labels
1.4.0 16/06/2022
• Heartbeat messages now correctly include custom parameters
more Version 1.5.13 24 Jul
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