BS ISO 11783-5:2011 - Page 2

Tractors and machinery for agriculture and forestry. Serial control and communications data network. Network management | Status: Superseded, Withdrawn

1 Scope ISO 11783 as a whole specifies a serial data network for control and communications on forestry or agricultural tractors and mounted, semi-mounted, towed or self-propelled implements. Its purpose is to standardize the method and format of transfer of data between sensors, actuators, control elements and information storage and display units, whether mounted on, or part of, the tractor or implement. This part of ISO 11783 describes the management of source addresses (SAs) for control functions (CFs) of electronic control units (ECUs), the association of addresses with the functional identification of a device and the detection and reporting of network-related errors. It also specifies procedures, and minimum requirements, for initialization and response to brief power outages of network-connected ECUs.