Data Polling, Capturing and ReportingΒΆ
Polling: A synchronous action taken by a local SCADA actor to query an external object for a raw physical state reading.
Capturing: The act of retaining a phsyical state read by a local SCADA actor for sending up in a message to its AtomicTNode.
Transmitting: The act of sending data up to the AtomicTNode.
Capturing can also occur both _synchronously_ and _asynchronously_.