HistorianOverview of the Simulation Collector
The Simulation collector generates random numbers and string patterns for demonstration purposes. You can configure the number of tags that you want to generate.
Features:
- The collector generates random scaled values between 0 and 32,767. It uses the high and low engineering units fields of each tag to scale the 0 to 32,767 pre-set values into appropriate engineering units.
- The collector also provides five-string simulation tags that generate random alphanumeric data.
- In addition to generating random values, the collector can generate sequential values for some tags. For a list of such tags, refer to Tags with Sequential Values.
- You can import browse for tags and their attributes.
- The supported timestamp resolution is 1ms.
- Floating point, integer, and string data are supported. Binary data is not supported.
- You can create Python Expression tags.
- Only polled data collection is supported with a minimum poll interval of 100ms.
Note: You can create more simulation string tags by manually adding string tags with the
following naming convention to the collector:
CollectorName.Simulation.StringXXXXSupported Tag Attributes:
- Tagname
- Data Type
- Hi Engineering Units
- Lo Engineering Units
- Hi Scale
- Lo Scale