RBNB Sink Actor Design And API

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There currently exist two prototype actors and a few workflows that use them. We will merge these actors, as well as continue to add functionality to them in the future.

RBNBToKepler outputs streaming data from an RBNB server. It is currently hardcoded to localhost.

RBNBToKepler2 operates on a timeslice of data from an RBNB server. The user points it at the server, specifies a time range, and optionally specifies channels to ignore (ie not download).

Here are some screenshots of an example RBNBToKepler2 workflow and the resulting plots. This is junk "desk data"--the Campbell CR800 datalogger and all our sensors are setup and running on my desk. You can easily note when I switched from AC to solar near the beginning of the batt volt plot. Sensors and the solar panel were/are occasionally arbitrarily moved about, though it was fairly infrequent (in the case of the panel, generally to better sit in sunlight). We had one cloudy day.

Plots

• Air Temp C -- in degrees C
• Batt Volt - voltage of battery in PS100 12v power supply
• lqs70_Avg(1) -- Apogee linear light sensor lqs70-10
• lqs70_Avg(2) -- Apogee linear light sensor lqs70-10
• qsosun_Avg -- Apogee quantum sensor
• records -- record numbers
• WS_ms_Avg -- avg of wind speed in meters/s (Campbell 014a-l anemometer)
• VW_Avg -- cs616 reflectometer measurement
• VW_Avg_2 -- cs616 reflectometer measurement
• relative_humidity -- rh %

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WS_ms_Avg.jpg		46804 bytes
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Rain_mm_Tot.jpg		40860 bytes
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VW_Avg_2.jpg		45425 bytes
Batt_Volt_Mins.jpg		72261 bytes