The February 2025 update includes quality improvements, enhancements, and new functionality throughout ArcGIS Velocity. Highlights are provided below.
General
General improvements include the following:
- Numerous accessibility enhancements across Velocity.
- Updates to backend libraries and dependencies.
Feeds and outputs
The following are the enhancements to feeds and outputs of Velocity:
- Velocity supports new FlightAware feed types:
- The FlightAware (Airborne) feed in Velocity connects to the FlightAware Firehose API, enabling the streaming of flight position data, including Radar, Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B), or datalink and flight status updates with flight details and departure and arrival messages.
- The FlightAware (Surface) feed in Velocity connects to the FlightAware Firehose API to obtain data related to surface movement positions of flights.
- Velocity supports a new Baron Weather feed type that connects to Baron Weather. This feed provides hyperlocal meteorological and weather data that can be used across various industries and solutions to ensure the safety of users and assets. Baron Weather currently offers 21 data feeds for users to ingest into Velocity.
- Velocity supports two new output types that enable effective communication of information to users across different systems:
- The Microsoft Teams output in Velocity allows you to send an Adaptive Card containing text, graphics, and buttons. You can also embed feature data in the Adaptive Card when posting to Microsoft Teams.
- The Slack output in Velocity allows you to send messages with text, graphics, and buttons to Slack channels. Similar to the Microsoft Teams output, you can include feature data in the message posted to Slack channels.
- The handling of data from the Azure Service Bus feed in Velocity is optimized for improved performance.
- The automatic reconnection to a WebSocket feed when Velocity has been disconnected is improved. This minimizes the need to manually restart the feed.
Analytics
The following are the enhancements to the analytics of Velocity:
Velocity supports a new Add XYZ Values tool that helps to obtain the x, y, and z coordinates from point feature geometry. Point feature geometry is a map feature that has neither length nor area at a given scale at x, y, and z locations, such as buildings, wells, cities, or fire hydrants on a map.
The following are the enhancements to the user interface of Velocity:
- The tab in the real-time analytics interface previously labeled as Current Average Metrics for Sources has been changed to Metrics to represent the data being displayed accurately.
- When the Custom Range option in History Metrics is selected over multiple days, the axis labeling now displays both date and time; it previously showed only the time of day.
- The tooltip messages for the Data storage method and Each time the analytic starts options in the configuration window for the Feature Layer (new) and Feature Layer (existing) outputs for real-time and big data analytics are updated for clarity. These updates represent the actions associated with each configuration option.
- Warning and error messages in real-time analytics that were truncated due to a long list are now fully visible.
- The Last month time interval option is removed from the Subscription Utilization line chart, as Velocity retains metric data for only seven days. When you choose Last week or Last day as the time interval options, the time label axis and the hover information now display both date and time, whereas it previously showed only the date.