CANgine FMS  is a smart FMS  (fleet management standard) to RS232 converter  for use on any serial  port. CANgine  FMS  ‘speaks’  pure ASCII  code,  so handling  the  device  is  easy. No  special drivers are needed and with a few commands in configuration mode CANgine FMS can be set to the customers needs. From incoming FMS frames real time data is extracted and transmitted via RS232  with  selectable  cycle  time  and  data  contents.  CANgine  FMS  is  based  on  the  FMS standard  defined  in mid 2002  by DaimlerChrysler, MAN,  Scania,  Volvo,  Iveco  and DAF.

The later defined Bus FMS standard is also supported by CANgine FMS.

CANgine  FMS  has  two  LEDs  signaling  operating  status  (running  or  configuration mode)  and
errors.  Sophisticated FMS data filtering and the possibility to configure the cycle time for serial
transmission allow adapting CANgine FMS to users needs.

The bit rate of the serial link can be set between 2400 and 115200 baud. Running the serial link
with  115200  baud  gives  the  fastest  throughput.  The  cycle  time  for  transmission  of  data  via
serial link can be set between 100 ms (10 data packages per second) and infinite (data request
mode). With a mask register the data transmitted to the serial link can be individually selected
between the 21 data items defined in the FMS standards. The output format of serial data can
be switched between a readable screen format and a packed database format without variable
names and physical units.