mark tinguely wrote:
>
> > it is quite standard in industrial environments and still popular (at
> > least in europe) but existant installations slowly get replaced with
> > ethernet based (100baseFX) or industrial ethernet (10Mbit) transceivers.
>
> I believe it was designed for noisy environments and is still used in
> automotive and large equipment (farm tractors, combines, etc).
Thats why I chose it for my home automation project. There are a lot of places
where I had to run the network wires right next to power wires. Since CAN is
supposedly noise resistant and I don't need much bandwidth it seemed like a
logical choice.
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