Primary Functional Users Sample Clauses

Primary Functional Users. We define what types of users the system can support and for each type we provide their characteristics. By users we mean the individuals who are able to interact directly with the software product at hand: • Water Company User – These are the primary users of our system and have as a main goal to use this tool to practice to water resource management for their urban area under consideration. The system has been implemented to fully handle the areas of the two pilot cities namely the city of Sosnowiec, Poland and the city of the Skiathos Island, Greece. However we must mention that with the appropriate additions in the spatiotemporal database (i.e. specific database tables that needed to define each new use case) as well as minimal code changing the system has been developed to be an open-ended online system and to have the ability to host many other use cases. The role of the water company user which is the primary and most important user type in the system enjoys the following privileges: o Can insert/update water data for the registered regions/countries. o Can insert information about sensors and valves. o Can deploy forecasting algorithms to predict water demand for a case scenario (it may be a one step ahead, a one-day ahead or a series of days ahead). o Can manage land zones of interest in the area under study. The water company user has the ability to create, edit, update and delete land zones of interest in the field of study. o Can have a managerial role in the insertion of meteorological and socio-economics data in the system. The reason the system is built this way is that firstly there are cases when the meteorological data is not available through the developed web services (for example today’s temperatures are not available yet) and secondly there are socio-economics data which are inserted into the system as they become available and the availability time periods may range from days to trimesters according to the time-period of interest and the use case. The ability therefore of the primary user of the system to handle awkward situations like the ones mentioned above is crucial for the system to function at all times. o Can have managerial role in handling alarms that are raised by simple users. When we talk in detail about such users we will elaborate on this issue. However the aforementioned alarms refer to cases of water distribution network failures and therefore it is an important submodule of the system. o Can deploy the EPANET model ...