
Controller Area Network - CAN
Controller Area Network (CAN) standards cover the CAN bus, designed and implemented to allow different components within a vehicle to communicate with each other without needing a host computer. As a textbook example of interoperability, standardization is critical to the functioning of the system as a whole, especially with the consideration that not all the cooperating parts will be made by the same manufacturer. Specified in ISO 11898, this series of standards has been implemented worldwide and the concepts within extend beyond their original design for automotive applications into other industrial fields.