Smarter AIoT, Faster Insights: What’s New in Cumulocity Q3 2026
Data is the foundation of every successful AIoT application; but unlocking its full value has often meant navigating complex integration pipelines, custom transformations, and disconnected analytics workflows.
The Q3 2026 release is focused on changing that.
This quarter introduces the next evolution of industrial data operations with a preview of DataHub Streaming Lake Ingestion, enabling near real-time access to industrial data while eliminating traditional ETL complexity. Combined with AI-powered Data Preparation, expanded AI Agent capabilities, and continued investment across Cockpit, Device Management, and Digital Twin Manager, these innovations make it easier to move from connected devices to actionable insights.
Alongside these flagship capabilities, Q3 also delivers a host of enhancements across the platform to improve usability, developer productivity, and enterprise-scale operations, helping organizations build smarter AIoT solutions faster.
Let’s dive into what’s new.
Sneak Peek: DataHub Streaming Lake Ingestion
One of the most exciting innovations in this release is a preview of DataHub Streaming Lake Ingestion, representing the next evolution of industrial data access.
Traditional data lake architectures often rely on scheduled exports from operational systems, creating delays between data ingestion and analysis. Streaming Lake Ingestion removes this bottleneck by continuously delivering operational data into the data lake in near real time, enabling faster analytics without the overhead of traditional ETL pipelines.
Built on Apache Iceberg, the new architecture provides an open, scalable foundation for enterprise analytics while supporting integration with leading data platforms such as Snowflake and Databricks.
Business Real-Time Data Access
Streaming Lake Ingestion makes newly ingested data available for analytics in under five minutes, significantly reducing the time between device events and business insight.
Zero ETL Configuration
By removing the need for manually configured offloading jobs, organizations can simplify data operations while reducing administration and maintenance.
Smarter Data Management
Automatic metadata cataloguing and schema evolution make it easier to discover, manage, and query industrial data as deployments grow.
Open, Robust and Scalable
Built on open standards, Streaming Lake Ingestion integrates seamlessly with modern analytics ecosystems while delivering the robustness and scalability required for enterprise AIoT deployments.
Currently available as a Private Preview, Streaming Lake Ingestion is targeted for Public Preview later this year.
Data Preparation – Public Preview
Collecting industrial data is only the first step. Making it usable has traditionally required custom integration services, transformation scripts, and ongoing maintenance.
With Data Preparation, Cumulocity introduces an AI-powered service that automatically transforms raw device data into structured, analytics-ready information.
AI-Powered Data Transformation
Using natural language prompts, AI generates transformation logic that previously required custom code, dramatically reducing development effort and accelerating deployment.
Enterprise-Grade Data Quality
Built-in validation, harmonization, and enrichment ensure incoming data is standardized before it reaches dashboards, analytics, or downstream applications.
Cloud-Native Scalability
Designed specifically for the Cumulocity MQTT Service, Data Preparation scales to process millions of events while eliminating the need to deploy and maintain custom transformation services.
Together, these capabilities enable organizations to move from raw telemetry to trusted business data faster than ever before.
Device Management
Q3 introduces new capabilities that simplify day-to-day device administration while making configuration management more intuitive.
Configuration File Editor
Managing configuration files directly from the platform is now significantly easier.
The new Configuration File Editor provides an integrated editing experience with syntax highlighting, allowing administrators to view and modify configuration files without relying on external tools or manual file transfers.
Benefits include:
- Edit configuration files directly within Device Management
- Syntax highlighting for improved readability
- Faster remote device administration
- Simplified management of large device fleets
These enhancements streamline one of the most common operational tasks for connected device deployments.
AI Agents
AI Agent Chat Widget – Public Preview
AI-powered assistance can now be embedded directly into Cumulocity dashboards with the new AI Agent Chat Widget.
Powered by the AI Agent Manager, the widget provides a configurable, provider-agnostic chat experience that enables users to interact with purpose-built AI agents without leaving their operational dashboards.
Key capabilities include:
- Secure, governed AI interactions powered by AI Agent Manager
- Pre-configured AI agents for specific use cases, such as Machine Assistants or Knowledge Assistants
- Customisable branding and user experience, including titles, welcome messages, and agent information
- Agent transparency, with optional visibility of agent details and token usage
By embedding conversational AI directly within operational applications, users can access expert guidance and contextual information exactly where they need it.
AI Assistant – Private Preview
The next evolution of AI interaction on the platform is taking shape.
A new global AI Assistant is currently in Private Preview, designed to provide a unified, context-aware conversational experience across the entire Cumulocity platform — not just within individual dashboards, but as a persistent capability accessible wherever users work.
Early capabilities include agent-to-agent orchestration, enabling the AI Assistant to coordinate multiple AI agents behind the scenes to complete complex operational tasks — such as automatically generating dashboards from a natural language prompt.
This is an early look at where Cumulocity is heading with embedded industrial AI. If you are interested in participating in the Private Preview, please reach out to us directly.
Build Applications Faster with AI Skills
Building UI extensions or custom applications on Cumulocity got significantly easier.
AI Skills — pre-built, composable building blocks for common AI interaction patterns — are now included by default as part of WebSDK builds.
The Skills are loaded into your repository by default as soon as you bootstrap a new project using the Cumulocity Web SDK. This helps your AI assistant build Cumulocity extensions that just work with a single prompt.
Cockpit
Q3 delivers a significant set of enhancements across Cockpit, making dashboards more intelligent, interactive, and easier to use. From AI-powered widgets to improved navigation and greater control over visualisations, these updates help users build richer operational experiences while improving day-to-day usability.
Enhanced Event List View and Widget
The Event List view and widget have been migrated to Angular for a faster and more consistent experience.
Key enhancements include:
- Dedicated Events Page – Available in Cockpit and within Device and Group views
- Real-Time Refresh – Keeps events aligned with the selected dashboard time range
- Child Device Events – Optionally include events from child devices for a broader operational view
- Richer Event Details – View image previews, custom properties, and other event information
- Consistent Metadata Display – Custom properties now follow the same presentation style as alarms
- Shareable Event Links – Link directly to individual events for faster collaboration and troubleshooting
These updates make it easier to monitor, investigate, and share operational events across connected
Enhanced AI SCADA Widget – Public Preview
The SCADA Widget has been completely modernised, bringing AI-assisted design and improved performance to industrial visualisations.
Using AI, users can automatically generate or receive suggestions for SVG-based SCADA visualisations by analysing asset data, including measurements, properties, alarms, and events. Interactive placeholder mapping makes it easy to bind visual elements to live operational data with just a few clicks, dramatically reducing the effort required to build dashboards.
Additional enhancements include:
- AI-assisted SVG generation using operational asset data
- Interactive placeholder mapping for faster dashboard creation
- Faster SVG rendering for a smoother user experience
- Improved security through isolated scopes, reducing the risk of XSS vulnerabilities
Existing SCADA widgets remain fully supported in legacy mode, allowing organisations to adopt the new experience at their own pace while reusing existing visualisations where required.
Asset Table Widget Improvements
Building on its modern Angular-based foundation, the Asset Table Widget continues to evolve with improved flexibility and scalability for displaying complex asset hierarchies and operational information.
Data Explorer Enhancements
New capabilities within Data Explorer provide richer visualisation options and improved data exploration, helping users analyse operational trends more effectively while simplifying access to historical and real-time data.
Angular 21 Support
Developers also benefit from continued modernisation of the Cumulocity frontend stack with support for Angular 21, ensuring applications remain aligned with the latest framework capabilities while providing a strong foundation for future development.
Continued User Experience Improvements
A number of additional usability enhancements make Cockpit more consistent, configurable, and intuitive across everyday workflows.
- Unified Asset Navigation
Cockpit now adopts the Digital Twin Manager asset navigator and sub-assets view, providing a consistent asset browsing experience across applications while laying the foundation for future navigation enhancements. - HTML Widget On-Demand Refresh
The HTML Widget now supports on-demand refresh, allowing dashboards to update content only when required. This gives users greater control over refresh behaviour while improving dashboard performance. - KPI Widget Enhancements
The KPI Widget now supports both Global Time Context and History Mode, ensuring KPI values remain synchronised with dashboard time selections and historical views for more consistent reporting. - Configurable Decimal Precision
Users can now configure decimal precision for computed properties in supported widgets, providing greater control over how calculated values are displayed and improving readability across dashboards.
Digital Twin Manager
Digital Twin Manager continues to strengthen the relationship between physical assets and their digital representations.
DTM Data Service – Public Preview
The new DTM Data Service enables live operational measurements to flow directly into Digital Twin assets, creating richer and more dynamic digital representations.
By synchronizing operational data with digital twin models, organizations gain:
- More accurate digital asset representations
- Near real-time operational visibility
- Improved monitoring and visualization
- Stronger foundations for AI-powered analysis and automation
This enhancement further advances Cumulocity’s vision of unified industrial data and digital twin management.
Data Management & Security
This release also includes a number of platform enhancements that simplify integrations, improve data quality, and strengthen enterprise operations.
New REST Endpoints
- Inventory Bulk Create and Update Operations: New bulk inventory endpoints make it faster to create and update large numbers of managed objects. This reduces API overhead and simplifies large-scale provisioning workflows.
Find more details here - Look Up Global Identifiers: A new lookup endpoint retrieves global identifiers in a single request. This makes it easier to integrate external systems with Cumulocity assets.
Find more details here - Alarm Upsert Endpoint: A new Alarm Upsert endpoint allows applications to create or update alarms through a single API. This streamlines integrations and reduces application complexity.
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API Updates
- Strict Validation of Measurement Unit Values: The validation on measurement fragments is now enforced. The measurement is still stored but without the null value. This improves data consistency and helps maintain higher-quality telemetry.
Find more details here - Binding External Identifiers When Creating Managed Objects: External identifiers can now be bound during managed object creation. This removes an extra integration step and simplifies asset onboarding.
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Security Improvements
- Stricter Validation of User Email Addresses: User email addresses are now validated more strictly during creation and updates. This helps improve data quality and reduces the risk of invalid account information.
Find more details here - Automated Audit Logging for Device Re-enrollment: Device re-enrollment events are now automatically recorded in the audit log. This provides greater visibility into device lifecycle activities and supports compliance requirements.
Find more details here - Enhanced Traceability for Support User Logins: Audit logs now provide improved visibility into anonymous support user access. This makes it easier to track support activity and strengthens operational transparency.
Find more details here - Deprecation of Password Updates via General User APIs: Password updates through the general user APIs have been deprecated in favour of dedicated password management endpoints. This aligns with security best practices and provides a clearer authentication model.
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Usability Enhancements:
- Automatic Resolution of Conflicting Tenant Option Categories: Microservice uploads can now automatically resolve conflicting tenant option categories. This helps reduce deployment issues and simplifies application upgrades.
Find more details here - Partial Username Matching for User Search: User search now supports partial username matching, making it faster and easier for administrators to locate users in large tenant environments.
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And Much More
As always, this release includes a wide range of additional enhancements across the platform, from user experience improvements and developer tooling to ongoing performance and reliability updates.
Together, these innovations help organisations build smarter AIoT applications, streamline industrial data operations, and unlock more value from their connected solutions.