The Mission         The CAN (Controller Area Network) protocol was developed in Europe for the use in passenger cars. Through the successful use of CAN in automotive and industrial applications such as control devices, sensors and actuators, CAN found its way to the US and other parts of the world. Internationally standardized under ISO 11898.   CAN in Cars     With the growing demand for greater safety, comfort, convenience and compliance requirements for improved pollution control and reduced fuel consumption, the car industry has developed a multitude of electronic systems (e.g. ABS, EMS, traction control, air-bags, central door locking, powered seat…). The complexity of these control systems and the need to exchange data among them required more and more hard-wired, dedicated signal lines. CAN offers the complete solution. Utilizing CAN, controllers, sensors, and actuators communicate with each other, in real-time, at speed of up to 1 MBit/s , over a two wire serial data bus. CAN in industrial applications   The benefits of reduced cost and improved reliability that the car industry gains by using CAN are now used by manufacturers of a wide range of products.  Industrial examples are marine control and navigation systems, elevator control systems, agricultural machinery, factory automation, photo-copiers, medical systems, textile production machinery. CAN Networks   Are cost effective to design and implement Will continue to operate in harsh environments Are easy to configure and modify Automatically detect data transmission errors Provide an environment that enables centralized fault diagnosis - during design  or while in service  Associated specifications such as CAN-based CAL, CANopen, DeviceNet, CAN Kingdom, SDS and J1939 are some of the enhancements to the original standard. More about CAN   If you are not familiar with CAN, we recommend you to learn the first steps with an introduction to CAN. This introduction allows to understand “how works CAN” on the bit-level.  You will find exclusively in our website this complete introduction... Please have a look on this site on the link called general questions to see some answers to the questions of new CAN users.             Furthermore the I+ME ACTIA CAN Experts wrote the CAN reference “bible”  for the University students and all the people who need serious references in this domain. This book in two parts is available in the shops under the reference you will find at the end of the CAN introduction...