The CiA international users’ and manufacturers’ group turns 30 on March 5, 2022. Beginning of this year, the nonprofit association submitted the 3rd generation of the CAN protocol to ISO for international standardization. Read more.
CES 2020 and CAN
During the Las Vegas tradeshow, some CAN-related news were released. CAN Newsletter Online reported about them.
IG J1939 online meeting
The next e-meeting is scheduled for February 17 (2:00 p.m. UTC+1). Main topic is the update on J1939-based specifications and standards. Guests are welcome. Please register by email.
Webinar on CAN in commercial vehicles
CiA invites to a free-of-charge webinar reporting about new CAN developments in heavy-duty and agriculture vehicles. It will take place on February 2. Please register here.
IG profiles e-meeting
CiA has scheduled its IG (Interest Group) profile meeting on January 18 (1:00 p.m. UTC+1). It is a Zoom meeting, in which the progress and open issues of CiA profile specifications are discussed. Members may register by email.
CiA office closed between the years
As usual, CiA office is closed between Christmas (December 24) and the new year. This includes also the CAN Newsletter Online editors. We are back on January 3.
ISO standardization
CiA is going to submit its CAN XL specifications (CiA 610-1 and CiA 610-3) for international standardization to ISO. Additionally, there are demands to submit also CiA 601-4 (CAN SIC transceiver) and CiA 604-1 (CAN FD Light) for integration into the ISO 11898 series.
Agritechnica 2022 canceled
The Agritechnica 2022 tradeshow has been postponed to 2023, because of the Covid-19 pandemic. CiA intends to exhibit at the Agritechnica 2023.
New J1939 documents
SAE has released a new version of the J1939DA (digital annex). It specifies new Parameter Groups (PG) and Suspect Parameters (SP). Read more in the current issue of the CIM.
CAN Info Mail December
The December issue of the monthly email service is online. It gives a little resume about the achievements in 2021 and a brief outlook on 2022 including planned activities by CiA. It also reports about new J1939 documents, the CAN Newsletter, and more.
The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since long.
CiA community
The CAN community is huge. More than two billion of CAN nodes are installed annually. And this figure is still growing. The number of CAN fellows organized in the nonprofit CiA users’ and manufacturers’ group is much smaller. Due to new CAN data link layer (CAN XL and CAN FD Light) and new CAN physical medium attachment developments (CAN SIC and CAN SIC XL), the membership is growing, too. There are also new members interested in CiA profile developed for new markets such as battery management, fire-fighting equipment, etc.
“We take the already existing ideas in communication technology as well as in human communication, arrange them newly, and new specifications and recommendations are born,” said Holger Zeltwanger, CiA Managing Director.