At the 2009 World of Concrete show in Las Vegas Cervis displays it’s latest development, the CAN Switch Station.  This development is meant to help OEMs of mobile equipment using standard toggle switch stations on their machines to eliminate bulky wiring and reduce input requirements on CAN controllers resulting in more flexibility, reduced installation costs and simplify trouble shooting. The concept was derived to service one of Cervis’ OEM customers that was using two 18 toggle switch stations at the right and left rear of their truck.  The stations also included one potentiometer and an E-Stop switch.  The length of wire run from each station was approximately 35′.  The total number of wires from each station was about 48 wires thus eliminating over 1600′ of vehicle wiring and associated terminations.  By taking the switch station and making it a CAN node the wiring requirements are reduced significantly and make the system significantly more reliable.  Each station interfaces to a Cervis supplied TTcontrol TTC 200 ECU which as well manages commands from the Cervis supplied Ikusi TM70 series wireless control.  The complete package has lowered the OEMs installation costs and added significant diagnostic improvements for operators.  Cervis has development plans to modularize this product for standard applications offering 3 and 6 toggle switch pack stations with standard CAN EDS.  ”We believe this product (the CSS) is widely applicable to machines in the mobile equipment sector, will lower costs and simplify machine assemble as well as improve reliability.  As OEMs continually move toward CAN based machine architectures the need for compatible devices is growing quickly.  The CSS allows manufactures to move to CAN technology while preserving the traditional, reliable look and feel of the toggle switch.” says Kevin Hadley National Sales Manager of Cervis.