Logger records CANbus signals

A Metrum Information Storage product story

Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team Jun 23, 2006

The imc busLog is ideal for long term monitoring for: car maintenance; car performance measurements; capture of intermittent errors; and monitoring for preventive maintenance.

The imc busLog is ideal for long term monitoring and can substantially simplify the collection of data for: car maintenance; car performance measurements; capture of intermittent errors; and monitoring for preventive maintenance.

The unmanned monitoring of vehicles, machines or plant greatly reduces the pressure on resources.

However to achieve this an independent measurement system is required that stores measured data or triggered information.

The imc busLog is such a system.

Based on imc's hardware and software platform, which is the basis for other successful imc products such as Cronos PL, the busLog offers a great deal of data-logger functionality together with an unbeatable price.

For less than GBP 1000, the complete measurement system including configuration software, online display and report generator function offers unbeatable possibilities.

With over 10 years of experience in CANbus measurement, imc feels certain there is nothing like busLog on the market.

Compared with the other systems on the market the new busLog offers a remarkable price-performance-ratio.

For less than GBP 1000 a complete system including imc's system software with online display, built-in storage capability and report generator is supplied.

Vector database import and the imc CAN Assistant further enhance the standard features of the system.

A key feature of busLog is its extremely quick startup time.

busLog works independently at very low power consumption and is protected against power failure by an uninterruptible power supply (UPS).

A signal-controlled sleep mode makes busLog particularly well suited to vehicle fleet monitoring, especially as it only requires 200ms to start up.

During its "sleep mode" busLog consumes less than 200mW power, which allows the user to leave the system installed in the vehicle for extended periods without encountering power supply problems.

Once the system is set to "sleep mode", the imc busLog is able to start a new measurement within an extremely short time (200ms maximum).

Therefore it is especially suitable for recording CAN data of vehicles, as soon as they have been started.

The device can wake up on CAN messages or the control connector of the device.

Different CAN buses based on different hardware such as CAN high speed ISO11898 and CAN low speed ISO11519-1 can now be connected easily to busLog.

A multistandard CAN controller supported by the software allows connection without hardware change.

One of the new innovations is that the busLog will always work under extreme temperature conditions.

Its standard operating temperature range is from -40 to +85C - a feature that wasn't available for the previous version, even in the extended temperature range.

Finally, the new busLog has inherited all features of Cronos PL as such as TCP/IP Ethernet connection, system synchronisation or display and modem connection.

The maximum number of channels has been increased to 500 as well.

A new wide-range power supply allows use of the busLog not only on 12 or 24V vehicle systems but also on new 48V systems.