A TransducerChannel includes a transducer and all of the signal conditioning and conversion components associated with that transducer. In the Draft this is called the TransducerChannel number. It is a sixteen bit number but only the least significant 14 bits can be used for the TransducerChannel number. The TransducerChannel is not named in the standard. It is left to the user to name it according to it's function in the users system. We could define the type of transducer here. i.e. Sensor, Event Sensor or Actuator. channelType includes sensor, actuator, event sensor. channelNumber is the number of transducer channel in TransducerChannelList