Mining Vehicle Diagnostics with WiFi CAN Bus Data Logger
Case Studies / DOK-ING
DOK-ING
DOK-ING offers robotic/autonomous systems for dirty and dangerous environments with use cases in military engineering, counter-terrorism, CBRNE, emergency response and underground mining.
What problem did you solve?
Our underground mining machines use lots of CAN communication for their normal operation. While developing new features it can be difficult to monitor the data during field use as well as perform diagnostics.
How did you solve it?
We deployed the CANedge2 in our vehicles to diagnose the equipment and monitor the general CAN traffic. Initially, we collected data by simply extracting the SD card and then using the MF4 converters to get CSV files with the raw CAN frames. The manual SD card data collection was used because the underground mines do not have any WiFi access points.
When CSS released the web server interface for the CANedge2, we started using this for our data collection. Now, every time a problem occurs our field technicians can use their laptops as a WiFi access point, which causes the CANedge2 to automatically connect when they are near a machine. They can then open their browser and enter the device IP to get remote access to the SD card via WiFi - allowing them to easily download the relevant log files based on timestamps. This had made our diagnostics much faster.
"The CANedge2 is a well-thought-out device with amazing features (like Wifi), easy data access and small size - making it ideal for machines and cars alike"
What benefit has this led to?
Because of the CANedge2 our aftersales support is now much better as we can identify and resolve issues significantly faster.
Why did you choose the CANedge2?
We chose the CANedge2 because it's small, practical and has WiFi connectivity.
— Josip Dominik Abramusic, Junior R&D Electrical Engineer
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