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Industrial vehicles cover a broad range of different applications including fork-lifts, agriculture and forestry machines, as well as road construction machines and truck-based cranes, garbage trucks and even truck-based aircraft washing robots. All of these vehicle applications are characterized by low-volume to mid-volume production. There is also a high variety in different versions. That is the reason why in these applications embedded networks should be standardized. In addition, the vehicle manufacturers like to use off-the-shelf products, even if they are manufactured for other market fields, in order to get better prices.

J1939-based networks are used in most of the in-vehicle networks in trucks and buses and in some off-highway vehicles. In Europe, many of the super-construction manufacturers like to use off-the-shelf, price-competitive CANopen devices originally developed for other applications fields. CANopen is a standardized CAN-based application layer and profile specification. In order to standardize the gateway functionality, a CANopen standardized truck gateway profile is introduced.