Usecase Fake Data Generator Actors

Use Case Name: FakeData Generator Actor(s)

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Summary:

Users would like a set of FakeData Generator Actors appropriate to the REAP Case Studies. A FakeData actor should produce data in the same way a real data source would. For example, a "FakeData_CR800_Temperature" Actor might produce a datastream of temperature data at 1 "sample" per minute. The actual data in the datastream should be indecipherable from a real temperature stream coming out of a Campbell CR800 datalogger deployed in the field. Somewhere in the metadata however, a FakeData Generator Actor should clearly identify itself (as being fake).

Preconditions:

Depending on how exactly we wish to simulate certain datalogger datastreams, these specs need to be available during the development of this/these actor(s).

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Basic course of events:

• User drags actor to canvas like any other data source.
• User configures actor to specify it as a certain type of data source (eg Campbell temperature stream) with sampling characteristics.

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