What is CAN?

At present, most cars sold in the markets usecommunication protocol for automobiles in 1986.
CAN BUS Diagnosis as the diagnostic system. ButSince then, CAN has been standardized by
what is CAN? Why is it so important?ISO11898 and ISO11519. Now in Europe, CAN is
CAN is short for Controller Area Network, whichthe standard protocol for automotive networks.
is a ISO international standardized serialNowadays, CAN has been approved to have high
communication protocol. In current auto industry,performance and reliability and widely applied in
for the sake of safety, comfort, convenience,industrial automation, marine, medical equipment,
low pollution and low-cost, a variety of electronicindustrial equipment and so on.
control systems have been developed. The typesCAN communicates with the diagnostic system of
of datas used in the communication betweenthe latest Volkswagen, Audi, SEAT and Skoda
these systems and the reliability requirements arevehicles in a new way. Compare with the
different. Various ones are made up of more thanpreviously K line used diagnostic communication
one bus. As a result, the number of wiringsystem ISO 9141, the new CAN bus system is
harness increases.quicker. You must have new hardware and
To meet the requirement of reducing the numbersoftware for CAN diagnosis. Gradually, K line has
of wiring harness and carrying on a large numberbeen replaced by CAN bus, so CAN bus diagnostic
of high-speed data communication through multipletools is your only choice.
LAN, Bosch, a German dealer, developed the CAN