ArcGIS Velocity powers Esri’s real-time processing and analysis capability, enabling users to ingest, visualize, and analyze spatial real-time to gain new insights and take action. We are excited to announce that the public beta of ArcGIS Velocity for ArcGIS Enterprise on Windows and Linux is now available. Now you can host Velocity in your own environment to explore your streaming IoT data on maps and dashboards, identify temporal patterns, and extract location-based intelligence.
By participating in the beta program, you get early access to ArcGIS Velocity for ArcGIS Enterprise and help shape the future of real-time GIS by validating the newest capabilities built for ArcGIS Enterprise.
Ready to get started? Join the Early Adopter Community (EAC).
What Is ArcGIS Velocity for ArcGIS Enterprise?
ArcGIS Velocity is a real-time processing and analysis capability that enables users to ingest, visualize, and analyze spatial real-time to gain new insights and take action as events unfold. With Velocity, you can ingest live event data from a wide range of sensors, protocols, and data formats, perform analytics in real-time, near real time, or over time, and automatically send alerts or downstream actions in response to triggers you define. Together, these capabilities help you shorten the time from observation to decision-making.
Currently, Velocity is available as an extension to ArcGIS Online. With the public beta of Velocity for ArcGIS Enterprise, these same core real-time feed and analytic capabilities are now available for self-hosted deployments on Windows and Linux. From small to large private firms, to national agencies, Velocity now provides high-performance, self-hosted real-time tools within your existing GIS environment.
Below are the key benefits of Velocity across both ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Enterprise deployment options:
Rapidly configure and ingest streaming data feeds
Velocity lets you configure feeds of real-time streaming data from multiple sources. These feeds can be data from industry-leading cloud IoT platforms, messaging brokers, and third-party APIs. Once you’ve connected to this data, you can immediately view it through live layers that you can embed in ArcGIS maps and dashboards.
Analyze data in real-time
With Velocity, you can use real-time analytics to continuously process individual observations and records as they arrive. For example, Velocity can automatically flag positions reported within a geofence, calculate motion statistics for moving devices and vehicles, and detect incident conditions in real time.
Disseminate information through alerts and take action
Once your analysis is configured, Velocity allows you to share findings across your organization by visualizing through maps, dashboards, and applications. Velocity lets you adapt symbology based on changes and configure automated notifications and alerts when predefined conditions are met. These alerts push information to systems, sensors, and devices or show up on a map as with a unique symbology for quick interpretation. For example, when an event occurs, you send a message through Microsoft Teams, Slack, text message, and email, or change the color of a symbol on a map, alerting key stakeholders of critical information.
What to Expect During the Beta
The EAC is your place to keep up with the latest information on the product, access the software, and post questions and feedback directly to the product team. The beta licenses and software access will last until the commercial release, targeted for May 2026 with the ArcGIS Enterprise 12.1 release*. The EAC provides all of the necessary resources to stand up Velocity for ArcGIS Enterprise for testing within a development-only deployment.
The EAC provides access to detailed installation instructions and a draft of Velocity for ArcGIS Enterprise specific documentation. There are a few guided “installation” modules (with requested feedback). Beyond that, the beta is open and is intended for you to test your workflows.
*Note: Development timelines are subject to change.
Getting Started and Providing Feedback
Begin using the software and testing your workflows by joining the Early Adopter Community. We encourage participants to really vet the software and let us know what works, what doesn’t work, and what they would like to perhaps see done differently. Its also important to consider how this software functions in comparison to ArcGIS GeoEvent Server.
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